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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 455B.133, subsection 10, Code 2003, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 10. Adopt rules allowing a city with a population of less 1 4 than eight thousand five hundred to conduct a controlled burn 1 5 of a demolished building subject to the same restrictions as 1 6 are in effect for fire fighting training fires. The rules 1 7 shall include a provision that a city with a population of 1 8 less than eight thousand five hundred may undertake no more 1 9 thanthreesix controlled burnsin every overlapping six-1 10tenths-of-a-mile-radius circle every three yearseach year. 1 11 The rules shall prohibit a controlled burn of a demolished 1 12 building in Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Council Bluffs, 1 13 Carter Lake, Des Moines, West Des Moines, Clive, Windsor 1 14 Heights, Urbandale, Pleasant Hill, Buffalo, Davenport, Mason 1 15 City, or any other area where area-specific state 1 16 implementation plans require the control of particulate 1 17 matter. 1 18 EXPLANATION 1 19 This bill relates to the number of controlled burns of 1 20 demolished buildings conducted by certain cities. 1 21 Currently, the environmental protection commission is 1 22 required to adopt rules allowing a city to conduct a 1 23 controlled burn of a demolished building subject to the same 1 24 restrictions as are in effect for fire fighting training 1 25 fires. Also under current law, the rules are required to 1 26 include a provision that a city may undertake no more than 1 27 three controlled burns in every overlapping six-tenths-of-a- 1 28 mile-radius circle every three years. The bill limits the 1 29 ability to conduct a controlled burn under these rules to 1 30 cities with a population of less than 8,500. The bill 1 31 increases the number of controlled burns that such a city may 1 32 conduct to no more than six controlled burns each year and 1 33 removes the six-tenths-of-a-mile restriction. 1 34 LSB 1639HH 80 1 35 tm/cl/14.1
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