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OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Concurrence
in Proposed Amendment to
Regulation 1 of the Bay Area RESOLUTION NO. 9 2
Air pollution Control District .
WHEREAS, the Bay Area Air Pollution Control District
held a public hearing on October 18, 1961 to consider amendment
of its Regulation 1 to permit burning in flood control channels
under emergency conditions; and
WHEREAS, the Board by their order dated 17 October
1961 requested modification of the proposed amendment to permit
burning under certain conditions; and
WHEREAS, the Bay Area Air pollution Control Board at
the conclusion of this hearing instructed their legal counsel to
re-draft this proposed amendment to Regulation 1 for considera-
tion of that Board at their December lath meetingand
WHEREAS, the revised draft prepared by the legal coun-
sel of the Bay Area Air Pollution Control Board, which will con-
stitute item 'h" in a list of exceptions to the fire prohibited
under Regulation No. 1, has been brought to the attention of this
Board and reacts as follows
"Fires set or permitted by a public official in charge
of flood control activities for the purpose of disposal
of vegetative growth which grew in or at the channel
which is lying or growing within the natural channels
of natural water courses and flood control channels
which fires are in the opinion of such official a
necessary incident to the clearing and maintenance of
water courses and flood control channels for the speci-
fic purpose of preventing or eliminating a flood
hazard ." ; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors of Contra Costa County
has considered this re-draft of proposed amendment to Regulation 1;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Super-
visors of Centra. Costa County wholly concurs in this re-draft of the
proposed amendment and urges the favorable consideration of the Board
for the Bay Area. Air Pollution Control District to adopt this re-
draft of the proposed amendment substantially in its present form
in order that the needed and necessary channel burning to avoid
flood hazards may be continued .
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 12th day of December, 1961, by
the following vote of the Board:
AYES: Supervisors James P. Kenny, Mel F . Nielsen,
Thomas John Coll, Edmund A. Linscheid,
Joseph S. Silva . ,,._ .
RESOLUTION NO, 2
NOES: None .
ABSENT: None .