Section 622. General Provisions

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 afte r 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 approva l 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 t o institutions with sensitive populations must immediately extinguish the fire or withhold additional material such tha t 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 b y 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 fiel d 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 th e following: the date burning was conducted, actual number and location of acres burned, and other information a s required by the Department. The Department may restrict further burning by a permittee until burn reports ar e submitted; and (3-28-23) k

dered 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 th e following: the date burning was conducted, actual number and location of acres burned, and other information a s required by the Department. The Department may restrict further burning by a permittee until burn reports ar e submitted; and (3-28-23) k. The open burning of crop residue must be conducted in accordance with the specific conditions i n the permittee’s burn approval. (3-28-23) 02. Annual Report. The Department will develop an annual report that will include, at a minimum, a n analysis of the causes of each exceedance of a limitation in Section 621 of this rule, if any, and an assessment of th e 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 o f 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 discus s open burning of crop residue issues. (3-28-23)