Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
chapter
Regulation for Open Burning [9 VAC 5 ‑ 130]
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2/21/12  5:49 pm
Commenter: B

Open burning
 

DEQ air inspection staff currently refuse to enforce the open burning regulation as it clearly was intended.  The reg needs to be changed to include neighborhoods that have regular collection services but do not currently exist on the federal list referred to.  The reference to the federal cite requiring a neighborhood to be on the list is not effective and can be out of date.  Currently, it appears that burning can take place in, what to anyone would be a neighborhood, with collection services.  Virginia law clearly intended to prohibit open burning in areas that have regular collection service in residential areas.  Also, waste removed from one area to another and burned could result in large areas being established in inappropriate locations.

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