EQC Item C

DETP/19/16479

''Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 4:52:17 PM (GMT+07:00) Goldstein, Meyer:'' Rule Caption: Increase Title V Permit Fees by the Consumer Price Index Adm. Order No.: DEQ 10-2014 Filed with Sec. of State: 9-4-2014 Certified to be Effective: 9-4-14 Notice Publication Date: 6-1-2014 Rules Amended: 340-220-0030, 340-220-0040, 340-220-0050, 340-220-0060 Subject: Summary: The Oregon Environmental Quality Commission adopted rules to increase Title V operating permit fees by the change in the consumer price index as authorized by federal and state law. The fee increases are necessary for DEQ to provide essential services associated with Oregon’s Title V operating permit program. The commission increased fees for invoice year 2014 by 1.7 percent based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics September 2013 consumer price index for the period September 2012 to August 2013. DEQ will apply this CPI increase to permit fees on the invoices DEQ will issue in August 2014 for emission fees and the operating period Nov. 15, 2014, to Nov. 14, 2015. Background: Title V of the federal Clean Air Act requires each state to develop and implement a comprehensive operating permit program for major industrial sources of air pollution. Oregon’s Title V program: - Administers federal health standards, air toxic requirements and other regulations to protect air quality. - Issues, renews or modifies Title V permits to prevent or reduce air pollution through permit requirements. - Completes required Title V inspections. - Ensures that existing sources of air pollution comply with state and federal air emissions standards. - Ensures that new sources of air pollution install controls such as filtration equipment, combustion controls and vapor controls needed to protect air quality. - Issues public notices and information about the Title V program; and - Provides other essential services such as emission inventories, technical assistance, inspections, enforcement, rule and policy development, data management and reporting to EPA. Regulated parties: The rules affect facilities that currently have a Title V permit and any facility that applies for this type of permit in the future.