1. Southeast Prescribed Fire and Air Quality Work Group
Southeast Prescribed Fire and Air Quality Summit IV February 25-27, 2019 Jones Ichuway
FINAL

2. Brief History of Summits
Summit I – April 24-26, 2013
Format a success = more Summits!
Quarterly calls
AQ shift from Director to Branch level
Lots of work to do…
Summit II – February 18-20, 2015
Exceptional Events Rule (EER) Revision
Successes/new challenges since Summit 1
Expand efforts
Summit III – April 10-12, 2017
State Agency MOUs
Concurrent sessions – Technology and Policy
Lessons learned from 2016 SE Wildfires

3. Summit IV Objective
The primary objective of the summit was to Identify regional prescribed fire and air quality activity coordination needs and solutions, and to develop a set of goals and actions to guide our collaboration over the next two years.

4. Summit IV Attendees Representatives from: State Air Quality Agencies
State Forestry Agencies
Local air quality agencies (Miami/Dade County, FL and Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, NC)
Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF)
Metro 4/SESARM Southeast Air Pollution Control Agencies (SESARM),
North Carolina State University Extension,
Southern Fire Exchange,
Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC),
U.S. Forest Service (USFS),
U.S. EPA, and
The Jones Center

5. Summit IV Highlights Information Sharing
National, Regional, State and Local prescribed fire and air quality activities and Issues
Individual State Breakout Sessions
Fire and Air Quality representatives discussed current actions and future plans related to prescribed fire
Identification of Action Items for the Work Group for the next 1-2 years

6. State Forestry and Air representatives are encouraged to meet at least once a year before the fall burn season and to share new contact information as personnel turn over.
The Southern Fire Exchange will annually offer the fire and air quality 101 webinars that were originally developed and presented in 2017 and 2018.
The Summit Planning Team suggested sponsoring a longer event with more detailed prescribed fire training for state air quality personnel.  They will follow-up with a query to gauge interest. 
The Summit Planning Team will create a database of each state’s prescribed fire permitting processes and burn data collected (after creating a template and requesting data from all 13 southern states).
The Summit Planning Team will coordinate the sharing of existing Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) and Smoke Management Programs (SMP) with states.  
The Summit Planning Team will evaluate the best way to create a work group clearinghouse to share information (could be done on the National NWCG Smoke Committee webpage).
Working group fact sheets from each state will be provided to the Summit Planning Team by the South Group of State Foresters.
Follow Up Actions

7. Live Prescribed Fire Demonstration!

8. Moving Forward Increase agency coordination
Policy development/revision
Cross-training
Improved fire intelligence