From: Merrie Dinteman [dinteman@lrapa.org]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:12 AM
To: MATTHEWS Shelley
Cc: FINNERAN Brian; MCALLISTER Larry; Ralph Johnston; HOUGH Merlyn
Subject: LRAPA Title 47 Open Burning
Hi, guys! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I did. I was at my niece’s place in Beavercreek on Christmas Day. She’s at about 1,100 feet, so it snowed quite a bit at her place that day. What a treat! So here it is New Years Eve—just hours until 2008. Yikes! Time sure flies when you’re having fun.
Here is the current draft of our proposed amendments to Title 47, Rules for Open Burning. This one has several changes which were made in response to comments from our legal counsel who handles most of our open burning enforcement cases. They mostly just eliminate redundancies and move things around a little to make them clearer and easier to understand. I sent the notice, statements of need and fiscal impact, and staff report to Steve Mabry at the Secretary of State’s office a couple of weeks ago. He said it looked fine and there shouldn’t be any problems getting it published. I haven’t heard anything more from him, so I’m assuming the notice of February 12 hearing will be in the January 1 Oregon Bulletin.
Shelley, I listed your name as rules coordinator for DEQ and mine for LRAPA, so that people will have a number to call LRAPA directly instead of calling you. If you get any calls, you can refer them to me at 541-736-1056 Ext 225, or to Ralph Johnston at Ext 213. Let me know if you need anything else from m e.
Merrie Dinteman
LRAPA
(541)736-1056 Ext. 225