Health Department in charge of burning permii As the spring and summer season nears, more and more people have the need to burn different things around their property. The Uintah Basin District Health Department is charged with enforcing the air conservation regulations adopted by the Utah State Board of Health and the Utah Air Conservation Committee. The local health deparment issues permits for different types of burning under the regulations. The types of burning that are allowable without any kind of permit are as follows: 1. Outdoor fireplaces and grills. 2. Camp fires and recreational fires. 3. Indoor fireplaces. 4. Properly operated industrial flares for the combustion of flammable gases. 5. Burning on the premises of combustible com-bustible household wastes generated by occupants of dwelling of four family units or less in those areas where no public or duly licensed disposal service is available that day. The burning that is allowable with a permit are the following: 1. Burning tree cuttings and slash in forest areas where the cuttings accrue from pulping, lumbering and similar operations. 2. Burning of trees and brush in railroad and highway right of ways. 3. Burning solid or liquid fuels or structures for removal of hazarH eyesores or for firemen training Zl Tjzzr-' " materials, for which there is no tT practical method of disposal Permits are issued by the ImtJ Basin District Health Department it burning only on good "clearing ind ' On a daily basis the health denari ment receives a phone call from Til" state bureau of air quality to tell the what theclearing index is. Theclearw! index is the measure of the abibtyfji the atmosphere to clear out an pollutants because of a high or J pressure that exists in the Basin that-day. that-day. When the index is acceptable ' permit can be issued over the pho That way the district can limit burr' and pollution on the days when thr smoke will not clear well. ,: As agricultural burning picks mi (ditch banks, orchard pruning fjjjp stubble, etc.) the health Department-' requests that individuals contact then--so burning can be done on a "good ' clearing index day." and pollution can be minimal. This agricultural birring jj not covered in the regulations. ". Those needing a permit or having'; questions, call the health department is.' Vernal at 789-0472 or in Roosevelt at 722-5085.