New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 2 - AIR QUALITY (STATEWIDE) › Part 65 - SMOKE MANAGEMENT › Section 20.2.65.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
In addition to the terms defined in 20.2.2 NMAC
				  (definitions), as used in this part:
A. "alternatives to burning" means treatments
				employing manual, mechanical, chemical, or biological methods to manage
				vegetation or fuel loads or land management practices that treat vegetation
				(fuel) without using fire; a treatment or practice may only be considered an
				alternative if it has successfully been used to take the place of fire for at
				least three years;
B. "burn
				project" means, in prescribed burning or in wildland fire use, a burn on an
				area that is contiguous and is being treated or managed for the same land
				management objectives;
C. "burner"
				means that person who is responsible for a prescribed fire project that is
				regulated under this part;
D.
				"class I area" means all international parks, national wilderness areas that
				exceed 5,000 acres in area, national memorial parks that exceed 5,000 acres in
				area, and national park areas that exceed 6,000 acres in area and that existed
				on the date of enactment of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1977; the extent of
				the areas designated as class I shall conform to any changes in the boundaries
				of such areas that occurred subsequent to the date of the enactment of the
				Clean Air Act amendments of 1977 or 1990;
E. "emission reduction technique" means a
				strategy for controlling smoke from prescribed fires that minimizes the amount
				of smoke output per unit of area treated or other objective unit of
				accomplishment; such strategy shall be used in conjunction with fire and shall
				not be a replacement for fire; for the purposes of this regulation, a technique
				used within three years of a burning operation is an emission reduction
				technique; if that same technique replaces fire for three years or more, the
				technique is considered an alternative to burning;
F. "non-attainment area" means an area which
				has been designated under section 107 of the federal Clean Air Act as
				nonattainment for one or more of the national ambient air quality standards by
				the federal environmental protection agency;
G. "part" means an air quality control
				regulation under Title 20, Chapter 2 of the New Mexico administrative code,
				unless otherwise noted, as adopted or amended by the board;
H. "pile" means vegetative materials that
				have been relocated either by hand or machinery and heaped together;
I. "pile volume" means a pile's gross volume,
				including the air space between solid constituents, as calculated from the
				pile's overall dimensions and shape;
J. "population" means the total of
				individuals occupying an area; locations for individuals within an area
				include, but are not limited to, open campgrounds, single family dwellings,
				hospitals, schools in use, villages, and open places of employment;
K. "prescribed fire" means any fire ignited
				by any person to meet specific land management objectives; for the purposes of
				this part, wildland fire use is considered prescribed fire; any fire ignited in
				an air curtain incinerator is not "prescribed fire" for purposes of this
				part;
L. "public notification"
				means any method that communicates burn information to the burners, air
				regulators, the local fire authority, and to the general public;
M. "SMP I" means burn projects that emit less
				than one ton per day of PM-10 emissions or burn less than 5,000 cubic feet pile
				volume of vegetative material per day;
N. "SMP II" means burn projects that emit
				greater than or equal to one ton of PM-10 emissions per day or greater than or
				equal to 5,000 cubic feet pile volume of vegetative material per day;
O. "vegetative material" means untreated wood
				and untreated wood products, including tree stumps (whole or chipped), trees,
				tree limbs (whole or chipped), bark, sawdust, chips, scraps, slabs, millings,
				shavings, grass, grass clippings, leaves, conifer needles, bushes, shrubs,
				clippings from bushes and shrubs, and agricultural plant residue;
P. "ventilation category" means that
				adjective describing the ventilation index conditions in terms of excellent,
				very good, good, fair, and poor;
Q.
				"ventilation index" means an index that describes the potential for smoke or
				other pollutants to ventilate away from their source;
R. "wildfire" means any unplanned,
				non-structural fire that occurs on wildland;
S. "wildland" means an area in which
				development is essentially non-existent, except for roads, railroads, power
				lines, and similar transportation facilities; structures if any are widely
				scattered;
T. "wildland fire use"
				means the management of wildfire, which is naturally ignited (such as by
				lightning or volcanic eruption) fire, to accomplish specific pre-stated
				resource objectives in predefined geographic areas, also known as fire use,
				wildfire use, prescribed natural fire, and fire for resource benefit.