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Board finalizes SB 342 open-burning exemption for vegetative waste and withdraws broad Amendment 9
Summary
DEQ presented and the board adopted a new optional off-site open-burning exemption for vegetative waste required by Senate Bill 342 and voted to withdraw Amendment 9, a previously proposed package of solid-waste changes cited as discretionary and costly.
The Virginia Waste Management Board on [date of meeting] adopted a final regulation implementing chapter 2-35 of the 2024 Acts of Assembly (Senate Bill 342) to allow an optional off-site open-burning exemption for vegetative waste and voted to withdraw a separate, broader package known as Amendment 9.
Priscilla Rohr, DEQ's solid waste compliance coordinator, summarized the final regulation required by the new law and the criteria developed by a regulatory advisory panel. She said the exemption applies only to vegetative waste (defined in existing regulations as materials such as brush, leaves, roots, stumps and clean wood) and allows transport of that waste to another property for open burning when it is "impractical or unsafe" to burn on the originating private…
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