In order to promote public safety through the training of
firefighting personnel, open field burning on grass seed or cereal grain
acreage by a fire department or rural fire protection district is subject to
the following conditions:
(1) Such
burning must be deemed necessary by the official local fire authority having
jurisdiction, and must be conducted in a manner consistent with the primary
purpose of providing training to firefighting personnel, in accordance with ORS
468A.020.
(2) Such burning must be limited to the
minimum number of acres and occasions reasonably needed to ensure adequate fire
fighting personnel training.
(3)
Consultation with the Department of Agriculture by the fire department or rural
fire protection district is required, in order to identify the appropriate
atmospheric dispersion and burning conditions for optimum smoke dispersal, to
protect the public from smoke impacts.
(4) No training fires shall be allowed on any
acreage that is in a State Fire Marshal safety buffer zone, and any training
fire being considered in a critical non-burn area, Priority Area, or Problem
Field, shall comply with the requirements in subsection (3) of these rules.
NOTE: This rule is included in the State of Oregon
Clean Air Act Implementation Plan as adopted by the Environmental Quality
Commission under OAR 340-200-0040.
Notes
Or. Admin. Code
§
340-266-0080
DEQ 5-1984, f. & ef.
3-7-84; DEQ 5-1992, f. & cert. ef. 3-3-92 (and corrected 3-18-92); DEQ
4-1993, f. & cert. ef. 3-10-93; DEQ 4-1993, f. & cert. ef. 5-11-93; DEQ
8-1993, f. & cert. ef. 5-11-93; DEQ 14-1999, f. & cert. ef. 10-14-99,
Renumbered from 340-026-0031; DEQ 8-2010, f. & cert . ef.
8-27-10
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468 & 468A
Stats. Implemented: ORS
468A.020
