SB 5658 - DIGEST

Requires the department of ecology or a local air pollution control authority to: (1) Lift burn bans when the air temperature falls below thirty-two degrees and is forecast to remain below thirty-two degrees for forty-eight hours; and

(2) Call a burn ban for the area where the burn ban was lifted when the air temperature rises above thirty-two degrees for six hours.

Requires a person who is in violation of the requirements above to: (1) For the first time, be provided educational materials regarding public health and air quality, information about obtaining or purchasing a certified solid fuel burning device, and provided with public notice twelve hours before an enforcement action for the first offense may be taken; and

(2) For the second time in the same calendar month, be subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars. For each subsequent violation, the amount of the civil penalty must be increased by two hundred fifty dollars for each offense.