Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 242 - RULES APPLICABLE TO THE PORTLAND AREA › Section 340-242-0050 - Definitions of Terms Used in These Rules

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The definitions in OAR
				340-200-0020,
				340-204-0010  and this
				rule apply to
				340-242-0010 through
				340-242-0290.
				If the same term is defined in this rule and
				340-200-0020 or
				340-204-0010, the
				definition in this rule applies to
				340-242-0010 through
				340-242-0290.
(1) "AQMA" means the Portland Air Quality
			 Maintenance Area.
(2) "Auto Trip"
			 means a commute trip taken by vehicle to a work site.
(3) "Auto Trip Rate" means the number of
			 commute vehicles arriving at a work site divided by the number of employees
			 that report to the work site.
(4)
			 "Baseline Auto Trip Rate" means the daily average auto trip rate established by
			 the baseline survey.
(5) "Baseline
			 Survey" means the employee survey administered at the beginning of the ECO
			 program, or when a new or expanding employer becomes subject to the ECO rules,
			 or when an employer relocates.
(6)
			 "Car/Vanpool" means a motor vehicle occupied by two or more people traveling
			 together for their commute trip that results in the reduction of a minimum of
			 one auto trip.
(7) "Compressed Work
			 Week" means a schedule in which employees work their regularly-scheduled number
			 of hours in fewer days per week or over a number of weeks (for example, a
			 40-hour, 8 hours per day, Monday through Friday work week is compressed into a
			 40-hour, 10 hours a day, Monday through Thursday work week.).
(8) "Department" means the Oregon Department
			 of Environmental Quality.
(9) "ECO
			 Program" or "ECO Rules" means OAR
			 340-242-0010  through
			 340-242-0290.
(10) "Employee" means any person
			 on the employer's payroll, full or part-time (part time is 80 or more hours per
			 28-day period), for at least six consecutive months at the same work site,
			 including business owners, associates, partners, and partners classified as
			 professional corporations.
(11)
			 "Employer" means any person, business, educational institution, non-profit
			 agency or corporation, government department or agency or other entity that
			 employs more than 100 employees at a single work site.
(12) "Equivalent Emission Reduction" means a
			 reduction of vehicle emissions, or other sources of volatile organic compounds
			 (VOC) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions, that results in a reduction of VOC
			 and NOx emissions equal to the emission reduction resulting from one eliminated
			 auto trip.
(13) "Metro" means the
			 regional government agency that serves the Portland metropolitan
			 area.
(14) "New Employer" means any
			 employer establishing a work site within the Portland AQMA, or any employer
			 within the Portland AQMA that expands employment at a single work site to more
			 than 100 employees, after the effective date of the ECO rules.
(15) "Non-Scheduled Work Week" means a work
			 week with no regular daily scheduled starting or ending time, no scheduled work
			 days, or employees are on-call. This does not include employees working a
			 traditional "8 to 5" job who may work on a flexible schedule.
(16) "Target Auto Trip Rate" means a rate ten
			 percent less than the baseline auto trip rate.
(17) "Target Compliance Deadline" means the
			 date by which employers must demonstrate progress toward achieving and
			 maintaining their target auto trip rate. The initial target compliance deadline
			 is three years following registration.
(18) "Telecommuting" means the employees
			 perform regular work duties at home, or at a work center closer to home than to
			 work, rather than commuting to work. The employees may telecommute full time,
			 or commute to work on some days and telecommute on others.
(19) "Vehicle" or "Auto" means a highway
			 vehicle powered by a gasoline or diesel internal combustion engine with fewer
			 than sixteen adult passenger seating positions.
(20) "Work site" means a property that is
			 owned or leased by an employer or employers under common control, including a
			 temporary or permanent building, or grouping of buildings that are in actual
			 physical contact or separated only by a private or public roadway or other
			 right-of-way.
NOTE:
This rule is included in the State of Oregon
				Clean Air Act Implementation Plan as adopted by the Environmental Quality
				Commission under OAR
				340-200-0040.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468.020
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  468A.363