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DETP/19/412

''Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 4:03:01 PM (GMT+07:00) Goldstein, Meyer:'' Rule Caption: Oregon Air Toxics Program: Benchmarks. Adm. Order No.: DEQ 12-2006 Filed with Sec. of State: 8-15-2006 Certified to be Effective: 8-15-06 Notice Publication Date: 3-1-06 Rules Amended: 340-246-0090 Subject: The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has adopted ambient benchmarks as administrative rules for a specified group of air toxics. OAR 340-246-0090(2)(e) requires that, once ambient benchmarks for air toxics have been established as defined in OAR 340-246-0090(2)(a–d), they be adopted as administrative rules. Ambient benchmarks are concentrations of air toxics that serve as goals in the Oregon Air Toxics Program. They are based on levels protective of human health considering sensitive populations. Ambient benchmarks are not enforceable regulatory standards, but rather “standard reference values” by which air toxics problems can be identified, addressed and evaluated. The ambient benchmarks adopted by this rulemaking will function within Oregon’s existing air toxics program (per OAR 340-246) as triggers for, and clean air goals within, other facets (Geographic, Local Air Toxics Emissions Reduction Planning, Source Category Strategy, Safety Net) of the program. As such, they are only a single component of the overall air toxics program. Any specific implementation, compliance, enforcement, financial, land use, or resource issues are expected to be associated with the existing overall program and subsequent community emission reduction planning (per OAR 340-246), and not with adoption of these ambient benchmarks.