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Agricultural Burn Fees
Effective January 1, 1997

These fees apply to any person who conducts or allows to be conducted on property under his control open burning for agricultural operations, range improvement, wildlife habitat improvement and/or wildland vegetation management.

No person shall open burn or authorize the open burning of agricultural crop waste or conduct any range or wildlife habitat, or wildland improvement burning without first obtaining a valid Agricultural Burning Permit from the Air Quality Management District and paying the annual fees.

Schedule of Fees/Calculation Worksheet Quantity Total
Base Fee:
Each agricultural burn permit shall be subject to a base fee pursuant to Section 41512.5 of the California Health & Safety Code and additional fees as indicated below.
$30.00*
Field Crop Stubble:
Including, but not limited to wheat, corn, safflower, oats , and barley; also includes roadways, fence lines, irrigation ditches and field borders.
$1.25 per acre
Rice Stubble:
Fee includes costs for administration of the Rice Straw Burning Phasedown Regulation; also includes roadways, fence lines, irrigation ditches and field borders.
$1.50 per acre
Orchard Prunings:
Including roadways, fence lines, irrigation ditches and field borders.
$.85 per acre
Miscellaneous Burning:
Including, but not limited to reclamation district levees, wildland vegetation management burning, range management burning, pastures, or fallow fields that are not subject to field crop stubble, rice stubble or orchard prunings as listed above. Also includes roadways, fence lines, irrigation ditches and field borders.
$1.00 per acre
*The above fee includes the cost imposed by the Sacramento Valley Basinwide Air Pollution Control Council at $5.00 per permit issued. Wildland vegetation management burning on land owned by the State of California or the federal government shall be exempted from these requirements.

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