Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 90 - RECYCLING AND WASTE REDUCTION › Section 340-090-0100 - Reporting Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The information in this rule is reported in order to determine
				statewide and local wasteshed recovery rates, to determine compliance with the
				opportunity to recycle requirements and to provide accurate and comprehensive
				information on the type and amounts of residential and commercial solid waste
				generated, disposed and recovered in Oregon.
(1) General requirements. The information in
			 subsection (2)(b) and sections (3), (4), and (5) of this rule must be reported
			 on a form provided DEQ and must be reported to DEQ no later than February 28 of
			 each calendar year for the previous calendar year. The information to be
			 reported under section (6) of this rule is optional.
(2) County requirements. Each county, on
			 behalf of its wasteshed and the cities within its wasteshed, must submit the
			 following information to DEQ. The information required below that relates to
			 collection programs within each city jurisdiction must be reported by the city
			 to the county so that the county can provide the required information in a
			 timely manner to DEQ.
(a) The following
			 information must be reported periodically as DEQ requires. This information
			 constitutes the "opportunity to recycle" report. DEQ will notify counties by
			 November 1 of a year if an opportunity to recycle report is required for that
			 year. When required, this report must be submitted on the schedule specified in
			 section (1) of this rule. In any case examples of all materials listed under
			 paragraph (D) below must be kept on file by the county for future reports or
			 inspection by DEQ:
(A) The materials that are
			 accepted for recycling at each disposal site in the wasteshed;
(B) If a recycling depot has been designated
			 in place of a disposal site as a more convenient location for recycling under
			 the opportunity to recycle requirements, the location of that recycling depot
			 and the materials accepted for recycling at that depot;
(C) Description of all education and
			 promotion activities conducted by or on behalf of each applicable city and the
			 county;
(D) For each city of 4,000
			 or more population in the wasteshed and for each city located within a
			 metropolitan service district in the wasteshed, the following information:
(i) A list of materials accepted for
			 recycling in each on-route residential collection program that is offered to
			 all residential collection service customers;
(ii) A list of materials accepted for
			 recycling in multi-family collection programs;
(iii) A list of materials accepted for
			 recycling in on-site commercial collection programs;
(iv) Listing of each program element under
			 OAR 340-090-0040(3)  that has been chosen and implemented by each city within a
			 metropolitan service district or with 4,000 population or more in the
			 wasteshed, including appropriate documentation of implementation of collection
			 service rates, multi-family collection programs and commercial collection
			 programs if applicable; or, as applicable, a description of the approved
			 alternative program being implemented and the status of
			 implementation.
(E) A
			 summary of activities in an expanded education and promotion plan, if a city or
			 county has chosen to provide the expanded education and promotion program
			 element through implementation of a under OAR 340-090-0040(3)(c)(B)(ii). The
			 summary must include education and promotion activities planned for
			 implementation in the coming two years unless DEQ requires otherwise. The
			 summary should also include:
(i) Plan
			 activities actually implemented since the wasteshed last reported to DEQ on
			 activities in the expanded education and promotion plan; and
(ii) Any changes in activities implemented
			 from those in the plan originally submitted to DEQ, or from the previous
			 summary submitted to DEQ under paragraph (2)(a)(E) of this rule, with
			 explanations for the changes.
(F) For each city or county that is
			 implementing the expanded education and promotion program element under OAR
			 340-090-0040(3)(c), the contamination reduction education plan described in OAR
			 340-090-0041.
(G) For each city or
			 county that is subject to the requirements of OAR 340-090-0042, the plans
			 required for the city's or county's compliance with that rule.
(H) A city or county that has evaluated the
			 effectiveness of one or more program elements is encouraged to include the
			 evaluation(s) in the wasteshed "opportunity to recycle" report.