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MW CLEARING & GRADING, INC., Petitioner v. NORTH CAROLINA
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES, DIVISION OF AIR
QUALITY, Respondent
No.  432A05
FILED  7 APRIL  2006
Environmental Law--open burning piles--one violation
The decision of the Court of Appeals affirming    a civil
penalty imposed on petitioner by the Environmental Management
Commission for open burnings violations is reversed for the
reasons stated in the dissenting opinion that the Commission
erred by finding that nine burning piles located within  1000 feet
of a dwelling constituted nine violations of N.C.G.S.  §  143-
215.114A rather than only one violation.
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S.  §  7A-30(2) from the
decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals,  171 N.C.
App.  170,  614 S.E.2d  568  (2005), affirming an order entered on
1 March  2004 by Judge Evelyn W. Hill in Superior Court, Wake
County.    Heard in the Supreme Court  13 March  2006.
Knox, Brotherton, Knox & Godfrey, by Allen C.
Brotherton, for petitioner-appellant.
Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by Elizabeth J. Weese,
Assistant Attorney General, for respondent-appellee.
PER CURIAM.
Petitioner appeals to this Court from the decision of
the Court of Appeals on the basis of a dissent.    For the reasons
stated in the dissenting opinion, we reverse the decision of the
Court of Appeals as to the appealable issue of right, i.e.,
whether the open burning in question constituted one separate
violation or multiple violations under N.C.G.S.  §  143-215.114A.
The remaining issues addressed by the Court of Appeals are not
properly before this Court and its decision as to these issues
remains undisturbed.    This case is remanded to the Court of




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Appeals for further remand to the Wake County Superior Court for
further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
REVERSED IN PART AND REMANDED.

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