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Air-district proposes fee overhaul, suggests earlier end to annual burn-ban with holiday no-burn days; board seeks fee-by-fee comparison
Summary
The Lake County Air Quality Management District proposed a full rewrite of its fee rules and a change to the county’s burn-permit calendar, suggesting either a November 15 or earlier November 1 lift of the annual burn ban (the latter offset by a set of holiday no-burn days).
The Lake County Air Quality Management District (AQMD) on June 10 presented a multi-part proposal that would: (1) replace the district’s decades-old fee rules with a modern fee schedule aligned to staff time and emission impacts; and (2) revise the county’s burn-permit calendar by ending the district’s annual burn ban earlier in fall.
AQMD staff said the district’s permit and fee structure dates to the 1970s and that current fees recover roughly half of permit-program costs. Doug Gearhart, AQMD staff, presented a new fee framework that separates permit charges from annual emission-related fees, adds pre-application and CEQA-review fees, and creates…
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