Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 240 - RULES FOR AREAS WITH UNIQUE AIR QUALITY NEEDS › Section 340-240-0030 - Definitions

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 this division. If the same term is defined in this rule and
				340-200-0020 or
				340-204-0010, the
				definition in this rule applies to this division.
(1) "Air conveying system" means an air
			 moving device, such as a fan or blower, associated ductwork, and a cyclone or
			 other collection device, the purpose of which is to move material from one
			 point to another by entrainment in a moving airstream.
(2) "Design criteria" means the numerical as
			 well as verbal description of the basis of design, including but not
			 necessarily limited to design flow rates, temperatures, humidities, contaminant
			 descriptions in terms of types and chemical species, mass emission rates,
			 concentrations, and specification of desired results in terms of final emission
			 rates and concentrations, and scopes of vendor supplies and owner-supplied
			 equipment and utilities, and a description of any operational controls.
(3) "Domestic waste" means
			 combustible household waste, other than wet garbage, such as paper, cardboard,
			 leaves, yard clippings, wood, or similar materials generated in a dwelling
			 housing four (4) families or less, or on the real property on which the
			 dwelling is situated.
(4)
			 "Fireplace" is defined in OAR
			 340-262-0450.
(5) "Grants Pass Urban Growth
			 Area" and "Grants Pass Area" means the area within the Grants Pass Urban Growth
			 Boundary as shown on the Plan and Zoning Maps for the City of Grants Pass as of
			 1 February 1988.
(6) "Klamath
			 Falls Nonattainment Area" means the area as defined in OAR
			 340-204-0010.
(7) "La Grande Urban Growth Area"
			 means the area within the La Grande Urban Growth Boundary as shown on the Plan
			 and Zoning Maps for the City of La Grande as of 1 October 1991.
(8) "Lakeview Urban Growth Area" means the
			 area within the Lakeview Urban Growth Boundary as shown on the Plan and Zoning
			 Maps for the Town of Lakeview as of 25 October 1993.
(9) "Open burning" means burning conducted in
			 such a manner that combustion air and combustion products may not be
			 effectively controlled including, but not limited to, burning conducted in open
			 outdoor fires, burn barrels, and backyard incinerators.
(10) "Rebuilt boiler" means a physical change
			 after April 29, 1988, to a wood-waste boiler or its air-contaminant emission
			 control system which is not considered a modified source and for which the
			 fixed, depreciable capital cost of added or replacement components equals or
			 exceeds fifty percent of the fixed depreciable cost of a new component which
			 has the same productive capacity.
(11) "Refuse" means unwanted material.
(12) "Refuse burning equipment"
			 means a device designed to reduce the volume of solid, liquid, or gaseous
			 refuse by combustion.
(13) "Wigwam
			 waste burner" means a burner which consists of a single combustion chamber, has
			 the general features of a truncated cone, and is used for the incineration of
			 wastes.
(14) "Wood waste boiler"
			 means equipment which uses indirect heat transfer from the products of
			 combustion of wood waste to provide heat or power.
NOTE:
This rule is included in the State of Oregon
				Clean Air Act Implementation Plan that EQC adopted under OAR
				340-200-0040.
Publications: Publications referenced are available from the
				  agency.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468.020 & 468A.025
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  468A.025