Air Quality Info

- Air Monitoring
- Access to Air Pollution Data
- Ambient Air Monitoring Sites
- Forest Fire Updates
- Air Quality Web Cam
- Modeling
- Modeling Guidelines for Air Quality Permits
- Permitting & Compliance
- 2008 Smoke Mgmt Permits
- Air Quality Permits & Environmental Assessments
- Air Quality Permits
- Air Quality Forms, Applications, Instructions, & Manuals
- Open Burning Permits
- Operating Permits
- Emission Inventory
- Planning & Policies
- Smoke Management
- Visibility Information
- Smoke Updates
- Nonattainment Information
- State Implementation Plan (SIP)
- Maps
2008 Smoke Management Permits
The state of Montana issues permits to burners who are classified as major
open burners. A major open burner is any person, agency, institution, business,
or industry conducting any open burning that will emit more than 500 tons per
calendar year of carbon monoxide or 50 tons per calendar year of any other
pollutant regulated, except hydrocarbons (Administrative Rules of Montana,
Chapter 17.8, Subchapter 6, rule 17.8.610)
To access the permit, please click on one of the following by name:
- United States Forest Service (USDA)
- United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS)
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas
- National Park Service (NPS)
- Stimson Lumber Company
- R-Y Timber, Inc.
- Plum Creek Timber Company
- Pyramid Mountain Lumber, Inc.
- F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Company
- Sun Mountain Lumber
- Wyoming Sawmills, Inc.
- Department of Natural Resources

