N.M. Code R. § 20.11.21.7 Definitions

• Library: New Mexico Administrative Code
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through Register Vol. 34, No. 24, December 19, 2023
• Citation: N.M. Code R. § 20.11.21.7
• Year: 2023

In addition to the definitions in Section 20.11.21.7 NMAC, the definitions in 20.11.1 NMAC apply unless there is a conflict between definitions, in which case the definition in 20.11.21 NMAC shall govern.

A. "Agricultural burning" means the burning of crop residues for field preparation or that is otherwise used for the production of a crop.

B. "Alternative to burning" means a treatment employing manual, mechanical, chemical, or biological methods to manage vegetation or fuel loads, or land management practices that treat vegetation (fuel) without using fire. A treatment or practice may only be considered an alternative if it has successfully been used to take the place of fire for at least three consecutive years. Suggested alternatives to burning are listed in Section 20.11.21.18 NMAC.

C. "Biomass utilization" means any method of removing and taking biomass material to a landfill, burn facility, a power generation facility, an ethanol production facility, a redistribution facility, a fiberboard or particleboard facility, using the material as compost or mulch, using it as animal bedding, for erosion control, etc.

D. "Broadcast burn" means the controlled application of fire to wildland fuels in their natural or modified state over a predetermined area. Broadcast burns do not include the burning of wildland fuels that have been concentrated in piles by manual or mechanical methods.

E. "Burn down" means that period of time, not to exceed three (3) hours, after a no-burn period is announced by the director, within which period a person operating a solid fuel heating device must cease combustion within any solid fuel heating device by withholding fuel or modifying the air-to-fuel ratio.

F. "Burner" means the person who is responsible for or in control of a prescribed fire project that is regulated under 20.11.21 NMAC.

G. "Burn project" means, in prescribed fires or in wildland fire use, a burn regulated by 20.11.21.15 NMAC on an area that is contiguous and is being treated or managed for the same land management objectives.

H. "Class I area" means all international parks, national wilderness areas which exceed 5,000 acres, national memorial parks which exceed 5,000 acres, and national park areas which exceed 6,000 acres in size and which were in existence on the date of enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977. The extent of the areas designated as class I shall conform to any changes in the boundaries of such areas, which occurred subsequent to the date of the enactment of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 or 1990.

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