Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 400-499 - Environmental Protection - Air Pollution Control › Chapter NR 486 - Employee commute options program › Section NR 486.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The definitions contained in ch. NR 400 apply to the terms
				  used in this chapter. In addition, the following definitions apply to the terms
				  used in this chapter:
(1) "Affected
				area" means Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Washington and Waukesha
				counties.
(2) "Affected employee"
				means an employee who reports on a regular schedule to a worksite of 100 or
				more employees during the peak travel period.
(3) "Affected employer" means any person,
				firm, business, educational institution, the state, a political subdivision of
				the state, the federal government, nonprofit agency or corporation, or other
				entity which employs a weekly average of 100 or more employees during one ozone
				season at a worksite within the affected area.
(4) "Alternative means of commuting" means
				travel between an employee's place of residence and primary worksite other than
				in a vehicle occupied by one person. Alternative means of commuting include but
				are not limited to the use of public transit, carpools, vanpools, buspools,
				bicycling, walking, telecommuting and compressed work schedules which are
				designed to reduce the number of days per week an employee must travel to
				work.
(5) "Average passenger
				occupancy" means the number of affected employees reporting to a worksite
				during the peak travel period divided by the number of vehicles in which those
				employees report as determined by the survey information described under s.
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				486.06(3).
(6) "Base average vehicle occupancy rate"
				means the number of employees reporting to all employers in the affected area
				during the peak travel period divided by the number of vehicles in which those
				employees report, as determined in 1992 from travel survey results submitted by
				the department and approved by the U.S. environmental protection agency. The
				base average vehicle occupancy rate for the affected area is 1.12.
(7) "Buspool" means a contracted bus service,
				usually administered by employers or employees, and typically involving limited
				pickup and destination stops, guaranteed seats, and advance reservations and
				ticket issuance.
(8) "Carpool"
				means a group of 2 to 4 persons commuting to and from work in a
				vehicle.
(9) "Clean fuel vehicle"
				means a vehicle that operates on liquid petroleum gas, methanol, compressed
				natural gas or electricity or which has been certified by the department as a
				clean fuel vehicle meeting low emission, ultra low emission or zero emission
				vehicle standards.
(10) "Commuter
				transportation incentive or disincentive" means the financial benefits,
				amenities or other strategies employers develop in their employee commute
				options compliance plans which encourage or facilitate employees to use
				alternative means of commuting and which discourage single occupancy vehicle
				travel. Commuter transportation incentives include but are not limited to the
				compliance plan options described in s.
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				486.06(2) (h).
(11) "Compliance plan" means the employee
				commute options program plan required under this chapter and described in s.
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				486.06.
(12) "Compressed work schedule" means a work
				schedule which reduces the number of days an employee is required to travel to
				a worksite. Examples of a compressed work schedule include but are not limited
				to: 4 10-hour work days per week; 3 12-hour work days per week; and 8 9-hour
				work days plus one 8-hour work day in a 2 week period.
(13) "Employee" means any person who is
				employed by an affected employer and who reports to a worksite that is owned or
				operated by that employer. The term "employee" includes full-time and part-time
				employees, and temporary employees not substituting for absentee permanent
				employees, who work at least 440 hours during the ozone season, but does not
				include volunteers.
(14) "Employee
				transportation coordinator" means a person who has completed department
				approved training on employee commute options and who has primary
				responsibility for developing and coordinating the alternative means of
				commuting strategies in an affected employer's compliance plan.
(15) "Guaranteed ride home" means
				transportation provided by the employer for employees who rideshare when the
				employee experiences unforeseen overtime, emergency, illness or other
				situations which prevent the employee from meeting the employee's alternative
				means of commuting schedule.
(16)
				"Peak travel period" means the time from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Monday to
				Friday.
(17) "Public transit" means
				transportation by bus, shared-ride taxicab, rail, or other conveyance, either
				publicly or privately owned, that provides the public with general or special
				service on a regular and continuing basis and is a funded program under s.
				85.20,
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(18) "Target average
				passenger occupancy rate" means the average passenger occupancy rate which
				affected employers shall meet. It is the base average vehicle occupancy rate
				multiplied by 1.25. The target average passenger occupancy rate for the
				affected area is 1.4 passengers per vehicle.
(19) "Telecommuting" means an employee
				working at the employee's residence using electronic communication or other
				means to perform job functions which would otherwise be performed at the
				worksite.
(20) "Transportation
				allowance" means a financial fringe benefit provided by the employer which is
				used by an employee to purchase transportation services for commuting to the
				worksite.
(21) "Vanpool" means a
				group of 5 or more persons commuting to and from work in a vehicle designed to
				carry not more than 15 adult passengers.
(22) "Worksite" means a place of employment
				or base of operation of an employee within the affected area. Where places of
				employment or bases of operation of employees are adjacent or separated only by
				a private or public roadway or other private or public right-of-way, and where
				those places of employment or bases of operation are owned or operated by the
				same employer or by employers under common control as described in s.
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				486.03(1), those places of employment
				or bases of operation shall be considered a single worksite.