A. 1. The Department of Environmental Quality shall not require the use of an air curtain incinerator for fires purposely set for land clearing operations except in counties or areas that are or have been designated nonattainment for a National Ambient Air Quality Standard or in metropolitan statistical areas with a population of greater than nine hundred thousand (900,000) people according to the latest Federal Decennial Census.
2. For the purposes of this section, "air curtain incinerator" means an incineration unit, operating by forcefully projecting a curtain of air across an open integrated combustion chamber or open pit or trench, in which combustion occurs. For the purposes of this section, "metropolitan statistical area," means a core area containing a substantial population nucleus, together with adjacent communities having a high degree of economic and social integration with that core, as defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget.
B. The Department shall not require the use of an air curtain incinerator for fires purposely set for the burning of clean wood waste or yard brush except in counties or areas that are or have been designated nonattainment for a National Ambient Air Quality Standard or in metropolitan statistical areas with a population of greater than nine hundred thousand (900,000) people according to the latest Federal Decennial Census.
C. The Department may promulgate rules to limit accumulation of clean wood waste or yard brush.
D. The burning of clean wood waste or yard brush shall not create a public nuisance.
E. The Department shall promulgate rules to carry out the provisions of this section.
Added by Laws 2019, c. 230, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
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