New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE › Chapter 20 - FOREST MANAGEMENT › Part 5 - PRESCRIBED BURN MANAGER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM › Section 19.20.5.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
For additional definitions refer to Section
				  68-5-2 NMSA 1978.
A.
"Act"
means the Prescribed
				Burning Act, Sections
				68-5-1 to
				68-5-8 NMSA 1978.
B.
"Broadcast burning"
means an
				activity where fire is applied generally to most or all of an area with
				well-defined boundaries.
C.
"Broadcast burn manager"
means the person acting as the prescribed
				burn manager with responsibility for ensuring all local and state required
				permits are secured, ensuring the burn plan is written and sufficient for the
				prescribed burn, coordinating fire resources and equipment, monitoring weather
				conditions and notifications and directing the implementation of the broadcast
				burn.
D.
"Committee"
means a committee established pursuant to
				19.20.5.13 NMAC to review
				applications for prescribed burn manager certification; provide oversight of
				the development and updating of training modules, refresher courses and
				recertification; and cross-walk the training modules with other training and
				experiences.
E.
"Council"
means the New Mexico prescribed fire council.
F.
"Course"
means an online or
				in-person learning experience taught by the cooperative extension service,
				division, contractor or other persons.
G.
"Curriculum"
means the
				minimum topics to be covered in a course.
H.
"National wildfire coordinating
				group (NWCG)"
means the organization of member agencies and
				organizations that provides national leadership to establish interagency
				wildland fire operations standards including qualification requirements for
				prescribed burning on federal lands.
I.
"Nine-element course"
means
				training that covers legal requirements, safety, weather, fire behavior, smoke
				management, prescribed burn techniques, public relations, planning and
				contingencies as specified in Subsection A of Section
				68-5-7 NMSA 1978.
J.
"Pile burn manager"
means the
				person acting as the prescribed burn manager with responsibility for ensuring
				all local and state required permitting is secured, coordinating fire resources
				and equipment, monitoring weather conditions and notifications and directing
				the implementation of the pile burn. Specifically, it means a burn of piles
				conducted with sufficient moisture or other limiting factor such as bare
				mineral soil to prevent the spread of fire between piles.
K.
"Fire management"
means all
				activities for the management of wildland fires to meet land management
				objectives. Fire management includes the entire scope of activities from
				planning, prevention, fuels or vegetation modification, prescribed fire, hazard
				mitigation, fire response, rehabilitation, monitoring and evaluation.
L.
"Proficiency workbook"
means
				a tool to provide an observable, measurable and standardized means to evaluate
				and document proficiency for the distinct attributes of a pile or broadcast
				burn manager. Each proficiency workbook shall be approved by the division, made
				available in all its offices and on its website and will have evaluation
				elements with accompanying signatures for demonstrating proficiency.