Code of Colorado Regulations · Regulation Number 9

Code of Colorado Regulations · Regulation Number 9

OPEN BURNING, PRESCRIBED FIRE, AND PERMITTING 5 CCR 1001-11

Regulation Number 9 governs open burning, prescribed fire, and related permitting throughout Colorado. It applies to all open burning activity in the state. The regulation establishes permit requirements for general open burning, planned ignition fires, and unplanned ignition fires, sets fees for these activities, and includes methods for estimating emissions and determining permit thresholds.

II.A.

Agricultural Open Burning means open burning of cover vegetation to prepare soil for crop production, control weeds, maintain water conveyance structures related to agricultural operations, and other agricultural cultivation purposes.

II.B.

An Air Curtain Destructor (ACD) is an open burning device that uses a strong air curtain projected across an open chamber or pit where material burns. It can be built above or below ground, with or without refractory walls and floor, and is not the same as an enclosed combustion device like a mass burn or modular combustor.

II.C.

An Authorized Local Agency is a local air pollution control authority that the Division has delegated authority to issue general open burning permits and/or prescribed fire permits.

II.D.

Broadcast burn means the controlled application of fire to wildland fuels in their natural or modified state over a predetermined area; it does not include burning wildland fuels that have been concentrated into piles by hand or machine.