From: PERRY Marylou
Sent: Tue Apr 03 09:07:10 2012
To: 'Chris Chenoweth'
Subject: RE: Oregon E- Cycles Registration Fee Rule Making
Importance: Normal
Chris –
Thank you for your comment on the Oregon E-Cycles Registration Fee Rule Making. This was received by our deadline of April 27, 2012 at 5 PM. We will consider it. Thank you.
If you wish to make further e-mail comments, please use this rule making address:
Comment-E-Cycles@deq.state.or.us.
Mary Lou Perry
From: Chris Chenoweth [mailto:chris@acupro-oregon.com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 19:26
To: PERRY Marylou
Subject: RE: Oregon E- Cycles Registration Fee Rule Making
As I read this my portion is going to increase 5 times from $40 a year to $200 a year. Will all tiers see a 5x increase in their share or is this yet another example of the Oregon political elite picking the winners and the losers like they have been doing for the last 20 years? How is this an equitable increase? Further are you assessing all small computer stores like me? With 5 in McMinnville alone it strikes me as highly unlikely that there are only 109 statewide that have 50 or less employees.
Chris Chenoweth
From: PERRY Marylou [mailto:PERRY.Marylou@deq.state.or.us]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:26 PM
To: PERRY Marylou
Subject: Oregon E- Cycles Registration Fee Rule Making
Dear Electronics Manufacturer –
DEQ invites your input on proposed permanent rule amendments to chapter 340 of the Oregon Administrative Rules.
DEQ proposes adopting rules under OAR 340-098 to revise the annual registration fees electronics manufacturers pay under Oregon’s electronic recycling program, Oregon E-Cycles, and to describe DEQ’s process for determining those fees.
These proposed rules would establish registration fees that will generate revenue to approximately match DEQ’s costs for administering the Oregon E-Cycles program. The proposal would establish:
• The revenue need to cover DEQ’s projected administrative costs
• A six-tier fee structure and process to distribute the revenue need among registered manufacturers based primarily on their market share.
Visit the DEQ Rulemaking web page for more information about this proposal.
Mary Lou Perry
SW Specialist
503-229-5731