Section R18-2-1509. Emission Reduction Techniques

A.      Each F/SLM conducting a prescribed burn shall implement as many Emission Reduction Techniques as are feasible subject to economic, technical, and safety feasibility criteria, and land management objectives.

B.       Emission Reduction Techniques include:

1.        Reducing biomass to be burned by use of techniques such as yarding or consolidation of unmerchandisable mate- rial, multi-product timber sales, or public firewood access, when economically feasible;

2.        Reducing biomass to be burned by fuel exclusion prac- tices such as preventing the fire from consuming dead snags or dead and downed woody material through lin- ing, application of fire-retardant foam, or water;

3.        Using mass ignition techniques such as aerial ignition by helicopter to produce high intensity fires of high fuel den- sity areas such as logging slash decks;

4.        Burning only fuels essential to meet resource manage- ment objectives;

5.        Minimizing consumption and smoldering by burning under conditions of high fuel moisture of duff and litter;

6.        Minimizing fuel consumption and smoldering by burning under conditions of high fuel moisture of large woody fuels;

7.        Minimizing soil content when slash piles are constructed by using brush blades on material-moving equipment and by constructing piles under dry soil conditions or  by using hand piling methods;

8.        Burning fuels in piles;

9.        Using a backing fire in grass fuels;

10.     Burning fuels with an air curtain destructor, as defined in R18-2-101, operated according to manufacturer specifi- cations and meeting applicable state or local opacity requirements;

11.     Extinguishing or mopping-up of smoldering fuels;

12.     Chunking of piles and other consolidations of burning material to enhance flaming and fuel consumption, and to minimize smoke production;

13.     Burning before litter fall;

14.     Burning before green-up of fuels;

15.     Burning before recently cut large fuels cure in areas with activity; and

16.     Burning just before precipitation to reduce fuel smolder- ing and consumption.

Historical Note

Adopted effective October 8, 1996 (Supp. 96-4).

Amended by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 388, effective March 16, 2004 (Supp. 04-1).

Department of Environmental Quality – Air Pollution Control