Idaho Admin. Code r. 58.01.01.622

Current through September 2, 2024
Section 58.01.01.622 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
01.Burn Provisions. All persons conducting crop residue burning must comply with the following:
a. Burning of crop residue must not be conducted on weekends, federal or state holidays, or after sunset or before sunrise;
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;
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;
d. Crop residue must remain and be burned in the field where it was grown;
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;
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;
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;
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
k. The open burning of crop residue must be conducted in accordance with the specific conditions in the permittee's burn approval.
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.
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.

Idaho Admin. Code r. 58.01.01.622

Effective March 28, 2023