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Senate approves bill to ease permitting for air curtain incinerators used in wildfire fuel reduction
Summary
The Senate passed House Bill 23 32, which exempts certain mobile air curtain incinerators from DEQ Title 5 permitting when they burn only clean wood waste, a change supporters say will speed deployment of equipment used to reduce wildfire fuels and produce biochar.
The Oregon State Senate approved House Bill 23 32, a measure intended to streamline use of mobile air curtain incinerators for processing wood waste and reducing wildfire fuel loads. Sponsors said the bill narrows the DEQ Title 5 permitting requirement for such units when they burn only wood waste or clean lumber-yard waste.
Senator Brock Smith, the bill's carrier, said air curtain incinerators "reduce the smoke and particulate up to 80 and over…
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