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Californis’s Efforts to Manage WFU Emissions

Californis’s Efforts to Manage WFU Emissions. Jeff Lindberg California Air Resources Board Interagency Air and Smoke Council May 4, 2005. Who is Involved. 35 Local Air Districts Primary regulatory authority to manage smoke Approve Smoke Management Plans Represent CA’s 58 Counties

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Californis’s Efforts to Manage WFU Emissions

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  1. Californis’s Efforts to Manage WFU Emissions Jeff Lindberg California Air Resources Board Interagency Air and Smoke Council May 4, 2005

  2. Who is Involved • 35 Local Air Districts • Primary regulatory authority to manage smoke • Approve Smoke Management Plans • Represent CA’s 58 Counties • California Air Resources Board • Sets state air quality standards • Title 17 Smoke Management Program • Program oversight • Facilitate communication

  3. Who is Involved (continued) • U.S. EPA • Sets National Ambient Air Quality Standards • Facilitate communication • Land Managers • Identify and implement smoke/emission mitigation measures

  4. How California Manages Air Quality Impacts of WFU • WFUs are Prescribed Burns for smoke management purposes • Smoke Management Plans are required for all WFUs over 10 acres in size(*) • Coordination between regional Air Quality Managers and the Land Management Agencies * Some air districts require SMPs for ALL WFUs regardless of size.

  5. Smoke Management Plans • Must be approved by air district in which fire is burning • Allows air quality managers to provide input into smoke/emission mitigation measures and trigger points • Land managers identify on-the-ground smoke/emission mitigation measures California Air Resources Board

  6. WFU Protocol • Facilitate communication between land and air quality managers • Timelines and information needs to minimize smoke/emission impacts • Mitigation measures and trigger points developed locally to meet local conditions • Developed by land managers and local, state and federal air quality managers • Current version dated May 2004

  7. What’s Still Needed • Development of Air Quality based trigger-points • Development of Emission Mitigation Measures Control Strategies

  8. Regional Efforts • San Joaquin Valley - Southern Sierra Smoke Management Working Group • Development of “Work Plan” • Unified Document for all Prescribed Fire Activities, including WFU • Great Basin Unified APCD Efforts • Statewide

  9. San Joaaquin Valley - Southern Sierra Working Group • Meets Regularly to discuss “burning issues” • Control Strategies being considered: • WFU Season - End WFUs before they become a problem • Emission Caps • Limitations on new fires, both prescirbed and WFU • Be prepared to take actions on WFUs in progress to minimize smoke/emission impacts • Communicate the need for WFU to the public • Work with AQ managers develop a consistent air quality message

  10. Great Basins Unified APCD • Temporary limition new WFUs if threshold smoke impacts are observed • Considers proximity of new fires to fire causing impacts • Work with your AQ managers to develop smoke management strategies before they are needed • Be prepared to take actions on WFUs in progress to minimize smoke/emission impacts • Communicate the need for WFU to the public • Work with AQ managers develop a consistent air quality message

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