Air Enforcement Actions

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Ownership Change Forms

Did you know that Ownership Change Forms should be filled out when facility acquisitions occur and/or company name changes take place? The Air Quality Division has attached the Change of Ownership Forms for Minor Sources and Title V Facilities below for your convenience. These forms need to be completed and mailed to the following address:

ATTN: Planning Section

Wyoming DEQ - Air Quality Division
200 W 17th St, Ste 300
Third Floor
Cheyenne, WY 82002

It is important to submit completed ownership changes in a timely manner as IMPACT portal users will not have access to newly-acquired facilities until the completed forms are received and processed.

If you have any questions about ownership changes, please feel free to email deq-air-impact@wyo.gov or contact a staff member by phone at 307-777-7391.

Below are forms associated with ownership change.

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Rules and Regulations

All official Wyoming State Rules and Regulations are kept at the Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office. Click here to view all current Rules and Regulations.

Open Burning

The Open Burning Program, under state regulations Chapter 10, Section 2, pertains to most small-scale burns. Large-scale vegetative burning, on the other hand, is regulated under the Smoke Management Program.

What does Open Burning Cover?

This law restricts and places certain requirements on specific open burning practices including the burning of: Refuse, Trade wastes, Leaves and other vegetative material, Fire hazards, and Emergency purposes and salvage operations (for firefighter training).

Additionally, opening burning outlines penalties for unlawful open burning. It also explains exemptions for the following: Recreational purposes, Cooking of food, Providing warmth for human beings, Branding of animals, and Handheld fire extinguisher training

Open Burning Guidelines for Consideration

In addition to the regulatory requirements, we suggest you consider the following before beginning a burn:

  1. Allow people to make arrangements so that they can breathe more easily during the burn by contacting nearby businesses or other places where people congregate to let them know your plans.
     
  2. To minimize the impact from smoke, do not burn closer than 500 feet from another property.
     
  3. Conduct burning during daytime hours between one hour after sunrise and two hours before sunset.
     
  4. Check the wind direction and don’t begin your burn if wind would cause smoke to blow toward a neighboring residence, workplace or other place where people congregate.
     
  5. Don’t burn on very calm or cold days when there is likely to be an atmospheric inversion that will trap smoke near the ground.
     
  6. Burn in the morning when winds are minimal, so smoke will blow away with higher afternoon winds.
     
  7. Attend and observe the open burn at all times and take action (extinguish the burn or notify neighbors) if the smoke changes direction and may adversely impact neighbors. 

Several guides and instruction sheets have been developed to assist you in completing and filing the forms necessary to conduct open burning. Please review these documents in the Tabs section below.

Forms

All forms pertaining to Open Burning can be accessed on this page. You may locate the form(s) you need by browsing through the files listed below. 

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Guidance

This page contains Guidance information, including procedures and timelines, for air emissions pertaining to Open Burning (vegetative, with emissions <0.25 tons PM10 per day, and non-vegetative burning).

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