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The EPA published an interim final rule under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 129 for temporary-use incinerators and air curtain incinerators (ACI) used in disaster recovery and emergencies. This rule exempts certain incinerators and ACIs from complying with CAA section 129 emission standards and associated requirements when they are used temporarily to incinerate debris in areas declared as a State of Emergency by a local or state government or where the President, under the authority of the Stafford Act, has declared that an emergency or a major disaster exists in the area. Under these temporary-use provisions, debris that is combusted is any non-hazardous material that must be the remains of something that was destroyed, broken, or discarded as a result of a disaster or emergency such as a tornado, hurricane, flood, ice storm, high winds, or act of bioterrorism.