Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0002 - Air Quality › Chapter 10 - SMOKE MANAGEMENT › Section 10-4 - Smoke management requirements

Current through July 13, 2024
(a)
Effective Date.
The requirements of this Section are effective
				for planned burn projects conducted and unplanned fire events that occur on or
				after January 1, 2005.
(b)
Definitions.
The following definitions apply to Chapter
				10, Section
				4. Unless defined differently below, the
				meaning of the terms used in this section is the same as in Chapter 1, Section
				3 of these regulations.
(i)
"Alternatives to
				burning"
means manual, mechanical, chemical or biological
				treatments designed to replace the use of fire to manage vegetation.
(ii)
"Burner"
means the individual, agency, organization, land manager or landowner who is
				responsible for conducting a planned burn project.
(iii)
"Class I
				Area"
means all mandatory Class I Federal areas established in
				the Clean Air Act of 1977 and include the following for the State of Wyoming:
				Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, North Absaroka
				Wilderness, Washakie Wilderness, Teton Wilderness, Bridger Wilderness and
				Fitzpatrick Wilderness. Such term also includes the Savage Run Wilderness,
				which is not a mandatory Class I Federal area, and any future Class I area
				redesignated in accordance with Chapter 6, Section
				4(d) of these
				regulations.
(iv)
"Emission reduction technique"
means manual, mechanical,
				chemical or biological treatments used in conjunction with fire to minimize
				emissions, including, but not limited to, methods that minimize the burn area,
				reduce the fuel load, or increase the efficiency of combustion.
(v)
"Jurisdictional fire
				authority"
means an agency, organization or department whose
				purpose is to prevent, manage, and/or suppress fires in a designated geographic
				area, including, but not limited to, volunteer fire departments, fire
				districts, municipal fire departments and federal fire staff.
(vi)
"Land
				manager"
means an individual, agency or organization that has
				the overall land and/or resource management responsibility.
(vii)
"Monitoring"
means repeated observations (i.e., visual) or
				measurements (i.e., instrument) to evaluate changes in smoke affecting ambient
				air quality and/or visibility. Monitoring can be documented, which involves
				collection and analysis of the observations and/or measurements.
(viii)
"Nonattainment
				Area"
means any geographic area of the United States, which has
				been designated as nonattainment under § 107 of the Clean Air Act and
				described in 40 CFR Part 81.
(ix)
"Pile volume"
means the quantity in cubic feet
				of vegetative materials that have been manually or mechanically relocated and
				heaped together, as calculated using pile shape and overall
				dimensions.
(x)
"Planned burn project"
means burn area(s) or pile(s) of
				vegetative material that are being treated or managed utilizing planned fire
				for the same management objectives and that are on a contiguous land
				area.
(xi)
"Population"
means all individuals, other than the burner,
				occupying a fixed area. Fixed areas include, but are not limited to, portions
				of property normally occupied as residential, recreational, institutional,
				commercial, or educational premises, but do not include fixed areas under
				control of the burner.
(xii)
"Public notification"
means a method that
				communicates information regarding planned burn projects or unplanned fire
				events to the public.
(xiii)
"SMP"
means the Smoke Management Program that
				specifies requirements for planned burn projects (SMP-I and SMP-II) and
				unplanned fire events. Irrigation district burn projects are by definition
				SMP-I planned burn projects.
(xiv)
"Unplanned fire"
means any vegetative fire
				ignited by natural causes such as lightning and human causes such as accidental
				ignitions, escaped prescribed fire or arson; irrespective of the management
				objectives.
(xv)
"Vegetative material"
means untreated unprocessed wood,
				including, but not limited to, trees, tree stumps, tree limbs, bark, chips,
				duff, grass, grass clippings, leaves, conifer needles, bushes, shrubs, weeds,
				clippings from bushes and shrubs, and agricultural plant residue.
(xvi)
"Ventilation
				category"
means the classification describing the potential for
				smoke or other pollutants to disperse from its source, and that is expressed in
				terms of Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair or Poor.