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SCHEDULE C

STATEMENT OF WOOD ORIGIN

STATE OF MICHIGAN

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

BUNDLED AND ARTIFICIAL FIREWOOD FOR RESALE AT STATE PARKS AND RECREATION AREAS

REQUIRED UNDER AUTHORITY OF ACT 72, P.A. 1945

PREVENTING THE SPREAD of EMERALD ASH BORER (EAB):

To prevent and control the spread of EAB, the Michigan Department of Agriculture has issued quarantine on all ash trees, ash materials, and all species of hardwood firewood, for the affected counties.

Regulated Firewood Articles include:

The Emerald Ash Borer, in any living state of development.

Entire Ash Trees

Ash Limbs, Branches, and or Stumps

Ash Logs with Bark Firewood of any coniferous (hardwood species). NOTE: Firewood that has been certified for the Federal Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine by the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, is exempt if it is packaged, bears a USDA compliance stamp and is clearly marked with the producer’s name and address.

Any article, product, or means of conveyance when it is determined by the Director to present the risk of spread of the emerald ash borer.

Under Land Use Order 8.2 as issued by the Director of the Department of Natural Resources on May 2, 2005, a person shall not do any of the following upon state-owned lands administered by the department:

(1) Possess ash wood upon any state lands unless that ash wood is without bark attached.

(2) Possess regulated deciduous cut firewood on state lands outside of a regulated area.

(3) A regulated area means those areas as defined by the emerald ash borer interior quarantine, published by the Michigan Department of Agriculture under the authority of insect pests and plant diseases, 1945 PA 72.

(4) Movement of regulated articles out of Level I is prohibited, except with a Compliance Agreement.

(5) Movement of regulated articles out of Level II is prohibited, except with a Compliance Agreement. (Regulated articles may be moved out of Level II into Level I without a Compliance Agreement).

(6) Regulated Articles may be moved out of a Non-Quarantined area into Level I or Level II without a Compliance Agreement.

Level I: The regulated areas include the following Counties in all sixty-eight(68) Counties of the Lower Peninsula.

Level II: The regulated areas include the following Counties of Alger, Baraga, Chippewa, Delta, Dickinson, Houghton, Keweenaw, Luce, Mackinaw, Marquette, Menominee, and Schoolcraft.

Protected Islands: The protected areas include the following Counties of Gogebic, Iron, and Ontonagon

NOTE: Michigan’s emerald ash borer internal quarantine encompasses tribal lands. Each tribe may have in effect a similar quarantine that regulates the movement of ash wood products. The violation of quarantine regulations on tribal lands is also punishable by criminal prosecution.

VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES:

Any regulated article from the quarantined area, moved within Michigan in violation of this quarantine shall be removed from the non-regulated area immediately or destroyed at the expense of the owner or owners, under the direction of the Director.

Any violation of this quarantine is subject to the full authority of Act No. 72, Public Acts of 1945, as amended.

Under penalty of law, I certify that the firewood products offered for sale at:_______________________________________________________________, (Location) were obtained from __________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

County(s) I also certify that the firewood products offered for sale do not include ash wood containing bark.

Signed: _______________________________________________

Dated: ______________________________________________ (Bidder)