(A) The environmental protection agency may grant permits for open burning in the following instances:
1. For instruction in methods of firefighting; or for testing of equipment for extinguishing fires, of flares and signals, or of experimental incinerators, or for research in control of fires;
2. For the destruction of vegetation on site under circumstances in which its removal would necessitate significant environmental damage;
3. For research or management in prairie or forest ecology;
4. For the destruction of landscape wastes, provided that such burning shall not occur:
(a) In restricted areas, unless burning is conducted with the aid of an air curtain destructor or comparable device to reduce emissions substantially; or
(b) Within one thousand feet (1,000') of any residential or other populated area; or
(c) After July 1, 1972, except with the aid of an air curtain destructor or comparable device to reduce contaminant emissions substantially.
5. For the destruction of oil sludges in petroleum production for safety reasons where alternative means including product recovery are impracticable; provided, that when emergency conditions require, such burning may be done without a permit, and a report shall be filed with the agency within ten (10) days thereafter, indicating the place and time of such burning, the quantities burned, the meteorological conditions, and the reasons why emergency burning was necessary.
(B) An application for a permit shall be in such form and shall contain such information as shall be required in procedures adopted by the agency. Such application shall contain, as a minimum, data and information sufficient to inform the agency with respect to: the exact quantities and types of material to be burned; the exact nature and exact quantities of air contaminant emissions which will result; the exact frequency, including dates where appropriate, when such burning will take place; the exact location of the burning site, including a map showing distances to residences, populated areas, roadways, airfields, etc.; the methods or actions which will be taken to reduce the emission of air contaminants; the reasons why alternatives to open burning are not available; and the reasons why such burning is necessary to the public interest.
(C) No permit shall be granted unless the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the agency that the open burning: is necessary to the public interest; will be conducted in such a time, place and manner as to minimize the emission of air contaminants; and will have no serious detrimental effect upon adjacent properties or the occupants thereof.
(D) The agency may impose such conditions in the permit as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of the act or this chapter.
(E) No permit shall be valid for longer than one year. Applications for renewal of a permit shall be submitted to the agency at least ninety (90) days prior to the expiration of the prior permit, and shall conform to subsection (B) of this section. The standards for issuance of renewal permits shall be as set forth in subsection (C) of this section.
(F) Violation of any of the conditions of the permit shall be grounds for revocation of the permit by the agency, as well as for other sanctions provided in the act.
(G) The agency may revise any permit granted pursuant to this rule, or any condition contained in any such permit. (1974 Code)