01.
Burn
Provisions. All persons conducting crop residue burning must comply with
the following: (3-28-23)
a. Burning of crop
residue must not be conducted on weekends, federal or state holidays, or after
sunset or before sunrise; (3-28-23)
b. Burning of crop residue must not be
conducted unless the Department has designated that day a burn day and the
permittee has received individual approval in accordance with Subsection
621.02; (3-28-23)
c. The person conducting the burn must have
in their possession a portable form of communication such as a cellular phone
or radio of compatible frequency with the Department in order to receive burn
approval information or information that might require measures to withhold
additional material such that the fire burns down; (3-28-23)
d. Crop residue must remain and be burned in
the field where it was grown; (3-28-23)
e. When required by the conditions of the
approval to burn, the permittee burning in proximity to institutions with
sensitive populations must immediately extinguish the fire or withhold
additional material such that the fire burns down, if the Department determines
the burn is having or will have an adverse impact on such institutions;
(3-28-23)
f. All persons burning
crop residue must complete a grower crop residue burning training provided by
the Department prior to their first burn and at least once every five (5) years
thereafter; (3-28-23)
h. The use of
reburn machines, propane flamers, or other portable devices to ignite or
reignite a field for the purposes of crop residue burning is considered an
allowable form of open burning; (3-28-23)
j. All persons burning crop residue must
submit a burn report to the Department that includes the following: the date
burning was conducted, actual number and location of acres burned, and other
information as required by the Department. The Department may restrict further
burning by a permittee until burn reports are submitted; and
(3-28-23)
k. The open burning of
crop residue must be conducted in accordance with the specific conditions in
the permittee's burn approval. (3-28-23)
02.
Annual Report. The
Department will develop an annual report that will include, at a minimum, an
analysis of the causes of each exceedance of a limitation in Section
621 of this rule, if any, and an
assessment of the circumstances associated with any reported endangerment to
human health associated with a burn. The report will include any proposed
revisions to these rules or the Crop Residue Operating Guide deemed necessary
to prevent future exceedances. (3-28-23)
03.
Advisory Committee. The
Department will assemble an advisory committee consisting of representatives
from environmental organizations, farming organizations, health organizations,
tribal organizations, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, the Idaho
Department of Environmental Quality, and others to discuss open burning of crop
residue issues. (3-28-23)
