Ariz. Admin. Code § 18-2-1509

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R18-2-1509 - Emission Reduction Techniques

A. Each F/SLM conducting a prescribed burn shall implement as many Emission Reduction Techniques as are feasible subject to economic, technical, and safety feasibility criteria, and land management objectives.

B. Emission Reduction Techniques include:

1. Reducing biomass to be burned by use of techniques such as yarding or consolidation of unmerchandisable material, multi-product timber sales, or public firewood access, when economically feasible;

2. Reducing biomass to be burned by fuel exclusion practices such as preventing the fire from consuming dead snags or dead and downed woody material through lining, application of fire-retardant foam, or water;

3. Using mass ignition techniques such as aerial ignition by helicopter to produce high intensity fires of high fuel density areas such as logging slash decks;

4. Burning only fuels essential to meet resource management objectives;

5. Minimizing consumption and smoldering by burning under conditions of high fuel moisture of duff and litter;

6. Minimizing fuel consumption and smoldering by burning under conditions of high fuel moisture of large woody fuels;

7. Minimizing soil content when slash piles are constructed by using brush blades on material-moving equipment and by constructing piles under dry soil conditions or by using hand piling methods;

8. Burning fuels in piles;

9. Using a backing fire in grass fuels;

10. Burning fuels with an air curtain incinerator, as defined in R18-2-101, operated according to manufacturer specifications and meeting applicable state or local opacity requirements;

11. Extinguishing or mopping-up of smoldering fuels;

12. Chunking of piles and other consolidations of burning material to enhance flaming and fuel consumption, and to minimize smoke production;

13. Burning before litter fall;

14. Burning before green-up of fuels;

15. Burning before recently cut large fuels cure in areas with activity; and

16. Burning just before precipitation to reduce fuel smoldering and consumption.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R18-2-1509

Adopted effective October 8, 1996 (Supp. 96-4). Amended by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R. 388, effective March 16, 2004 (Supp. 04-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 29 A.A.R. 1427, effective 8/7/2023. Amended by final expedited rulemaking at 30 A.A.R. 2422, effective 7/3/2024.