Okanogan, WA: How is prescribed burning to be done without degrading air quality (i.e., grass growers burn ban near Spokane)?
95. Libby, MT: In Washington, grass burning has been outlawed due to air quality activists’ particulate concerns. How does this plan’s air quality assumptions address the issue raised by the anti-grass burning folks. Answer: We believe that these issues have been addressed in the Draft EIS. Objective PE-O5 requires compliance with all Federal, State, and local air pollution requirements, and standard PE-S4 provides key points to be covered in any environmental analysis conducted for the use of prescribed fire. Air quality modeling used for the project indicate that the particulate emissions from prescribed burning alone should not cause widespread exceedence of air quality standards. 96. Republic, WA: Where in the ICBEMP are the safeguards to eliminate economic incentives for Forest Service management to burn as a result of fire pay for office personnel, and private providers of fire fighting equipment from great distances? This scenario appears to be a political problem in fighting fi
