MCAQMD Smoke Management Program

MCAQMD Smoke Management Program

The Mendocino County Air Quality Management District is proposing to establish a Smoke Management Program (Program) to comply with California Air Resources Board (CARB) requirements. The goals of the Program are to reduce impacts from outdoor burning on smoke sensitive areas (SSAs) and avoid cumulative impacts from multiple burns on any single day. These goals are achieved through a number of means: - Defining the hours that burning is permitted on burn days to the hours when inversions are less likely (except when overruled by fire agencies) - Requiring burns greater than 10 acres to prepare Smoke Management Plans - Improving the methodology for making burn day decisions - Requiring pilot burns to check for inversions before burning in some situations - Improving cooperation and coordination with local fire agencies - Limiting the number of large burns that can occur on any burn day - Limiting the number of burns that occur in any one area at a time - Requiring post burn reporting for larger burns - Improving coordination with neighboring Air Districts Primarily the Program is the development and formalization of a new permitting and permit processing system.

Mendocino

Air Resources Board, Major Industrial Projects, Cal Fire, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 1 (DOT), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region 1 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Resources Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality

Aesthetics, Air Quality, Hydrology/Water Quality, Wildfire