A firm that specializes in environmental hazards has issued a restoration plan after a mishap during the burning of methamphetamine by the FBI shut down the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter earlier this month.

Law enforcement officials were using the incinerator to destroy the drugs on Sept. 10 when smoke started billowing into the city-owned building on Monad Road and forced it to be evacuated. The building, which houses Billings’ animal control division and the nonprofit shelter, has since remained closed.

On Monday, the Billings-based firm Northern Industrial Hygiene presented its assessment and plan for restoration work that needs to be completed before the building can be reopened, City Administrator Chris Kukulski said.

He said he met with officials from the Montana Depa

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