Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 629 - DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY › Division 48 - SMOKE MANAGEMENT › Section 629-048-0005 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
Unless otherwise defined below, terms used in this rule
				division shall have the meaning provided in ORS
				477.001:
(1) "Alternatives to burning" means any
			 forest management activity that reduces the volume of material, rather than
			 actually being burned.
(2) "Board"
			 means the State Board of Forestry.
(3) "Burn boss" means the person, authorized
			 by the owner (may include the owner) or a federal land management agency to
			 conduct and make decisions regarding the practices involved in conducting a
			 prescribed burning operation and who is responsible for compliance with all
			 requirements under this rule division and related laws.
(4) "Burn registration" means the act or
			 product of notifying the forester to the required level of detail, of intent to
			 conduct a prescribed burning operation as required by OAR
			 629-048-0300.
(5) "Class I Area"
			 means national parks and certain wilderness areas designated by Congress in
			 1977 as federal Class I Areas that are subject to visibility protection under
			 the Environmental Protection Agency's Regional Haze Rule and the federal Clean
			 Air Act. Class I Areas in Oregon include: Crater Lake National Park, Diamond
			 Peak Wilderness, Eagle Cap Wilderness, Gearhart Mountain Wilderness, Hells
			 Canyon Wilderness, Kalmiopsis Wilderness, Mountain Lakes Wilderness, Mount Hood
			 Wilderness, Mount Jefferson Wilderness, Mount Washington Wilderness, Strawberry
			 Mountain Wilderness and Three Sisters Wilderness.
(6) "Class 1 forestland" has the same meaning
			 as given in ORS
			 526.324 to "timber class" and includes all forestland primarily suitable for the
			 production of timber.
(7) "Class 2
			 forestland" has the same meaning as given in ORS
			 526.324 to "timber and grazing class" and includes all forestland primarily suitable
			 for joint use for timber production and the grazing of livestock, as a
			 permanent or semi-permanent joint use, or as a temporary joint use during the
			 interim between logging and reforestation.
(8) "Class 3 forestland" has the same meaning
			 as given in ORS
			 526.324 to "agricultural class" and includes all forestland primarily suitable for
			 grazing or other agricultural use.
(9) "Department" means the Oregon Department
			 of Forestry (ODF).
(10) "Eastern
			 Oregon" means the eighteen Oregon counties lying east of Multnomah, Clackamas,
			 Marion, Linn, Lane, Douglas, and Jackson Counties.
(11) "Emission reduction technique" means any
			 forest management activity that allows for a lower volume of particulate to be
			 produced from a given volume of burning.
(12) "Emissions" means the gaseous and
			 particulate combustion products in smoke resulting from burning forest
			 fuels.
(13) "Federal land
			 management agency" means the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest
			 Service; the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land
			 Management, National Park Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or
			 Bureau of Indian Affairs; or any other federal agency that may conduct
			 prescribed burning within a forest protection district.
(14) "Field administrator" means an
			 ODFemployee, a forest protective association, or federal land management agency
			 who has, among other responsibilities, an official role in determining whether
			 a prescribed burn should proceed, continue or be suspended.
(15) "Forester" means the State Forester or
			 authorized representative including but not limited to fire wardens appointed
			 under ORS
			 477.355.
(16) "Forest fuels" means any flammable woody
			 material, grass or other plant matter that may constitute a wildfire hazard or
			 that is intended for disposal by prescribed burning, but does not include
			 products that have had secondary processing such as boards, posts or
			 paper.
(17) "Forest protection
			 district" means an area of forestland designated by the State Forester for
			 protection from fire pursuant to ORS
			 477.225.
			 Detailed descriptions of the forest protection districts may be found in OAR
			 629-041-0500  to 629-041-0575.
(18)
			 "Ground level" means at or close to the surface of the earth such that smoke at
			 "ground level" could be inhaled by persons going about their normal business,
			 in or out of doors. It does not include smoke that passes overhead when
			 prescribed burning is conducted in accordance with the Smoke Management
			 forecast and instructions.
(19)
			 "Level 1 regulation" means the program of requirements that apply to all
			 forestland managed by a federal land management agency statewide, and all Class
			 1 forestland in western Oregon within a forest protection district (OAR
			 629-048-0100(2). These requirements include burn registration at least seven
			 days in advance (OAR 629-048-0300), fee administration (OAR 629-048-0310),
			 compliance with Smoke Management forecast instructions (OAR 629-048-0230), and
			 reporting of accomplishments (OAR 629-048-0320).
(20) "Level 2 regulation" means the program
			 of requirements that apply to all non-federal forestlands in eastern Oregon,
			 and all Class 3 forestland in western Oregon within a forest protection
			 district (OAR 629-048-0100(3). These requirements include burn registration
			 (OAR 629-048-0300) and reporting of accomplishments (OAR
			 629-048-0320).
(21) "Mop-up" means
			 action, usually involving the application of water or other means to eliminate
			 heat, remove fuel or reduce the supply of oxygen, sufficient to make a fire
			 safe or reduce residual smoke.
(22)
			 "Other areas sensitive to smoke" means specific recreation areas not listed as
			 SSRAs in OAR 629-048-0140  but that are intended to receive consideration for
			 focused forecasting attention for limited times during periods of heavy use by
			 the public such as coastal beaches on holidays and other areas during special
			 events.
(23) "Prescribed burning"
			 means the use of fire ignited as a planned management activity on forestland to
			 meet specific objectives involving the reduction or removal of forest fuels.
			 Prescribed burning does not include impromptu fires ignited for purposes such
			 as warming fires, burn-out or backfire operations used in wildfire suppression,
			 or lightning ignited "wildland fire use" as practiced by federal land
			 management agencies.
(24) "Regional
			 haze" means air pollution transported over long distances into Class I Areas
			 that reduces visibility in those areas.
(25) "Residual smoke" means smoke produced
			 after the initial fire has passed through the fuel.
(26) "Smoke Sensitive Receptor Area or SSRA"
			 means an area designated for the highest level of protection under the Smoke
			 Management Plan, as described and listed in OAR 629-048-0140.
(27) "Smoke intrusion" means the verified
			 entrance of smoke from prescribed burning into an SSRAat ground level
			 thataverages at or above70 micrograms per cubic meterof particulate matter of
			 2.5 microns or less (PM2.5)for any one-hour period and/or averages at or above
			 26 micrograms per cubic meter for a 24-hour period, measured from midnight to
			 midnight.
(28) "Smoke incident"
			 means the verified entrance of smoke from prescribed burning into an SSRA at
			 levels below a smoke intrusion (see "smoke intrusion" definition), other areas
			 sensitive to smoke, or a community other than an SSRA.
(29) "Smoke Management forecast unit" means
			 any or all of the persons appointed or assigned by the State Forester to
			 develop and interpret weather forecasts and produce Smoke Management
			 instructions, usually operating from the department headquarters in
			 Salem.
(30) "Underburning" means
			 low-intensity prescribed burning to maintain forest health through reduction of
			 fuels in the understory of a forest stand while maintaining the over story
			 stand characteristics.
(31)
			 "Vulnerable populations" means people with specific sensitivities including,
			 but not limited to, those with heart diseases, coronary artery disease,
			 congestive heart failure, or those with lung and respiratory diseases, such as
			 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and those with asthma, older
			 adults, pregnant women, and children.
(32) "Western Oregon" means the eighteen
			 Oregon counties lying west of Hood River, Wasco, Jefferson, Deschutes and
			 Klamath Counties.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  477.013,
				  477.562,
				  526.016  & 526.041
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  477.013,
				  477.515  & 477.562