Courtesy Copy_ DEQ Rulemaking - SB 263 Materials Management - EQC adopts proposed rules

DETP/19/32725

''Monday, July 29, 2019 at 10:53:03 AM (GMT+07:00) Goldstein, Meyer:'' Rule Caption: SB 263 Materials Management - Opportunity to Recycle Adm. Order No.: DEQ 3-2017 Filed with Sec. of State: 1-19-2017 Certified to be Effective: 1-19-17 Notice Publication Date: 11-1-2016 Rules Adopted: 340-090-0041, 340-090-0042, 340-090-0068 Rules Amended: 340-090-0005, 340-090-0010, 340-090-0015, 340-090-0020, 340-090-0030, 340-090-0040, 340-090-0050, 340-090-0060, 340-090-0070, 340-090-0080, 340-090-0090, 340-090-0100, 340-090-0110, 340-090-0120, 340-090-0130, 340-090-0140, 340-090-0150, 340-090-0180, 340-090-0190, 340-090-0310, 340-090-0320, 340-090-0330, 340-090-0340, 340-090-0350, 340-090-0360, 340-090-0370, 340-090-0380, 340-090-0390, 340-090-0400, 340-090-0410, 340-090-0420, 340-090-0430, 340-090-0510 Rules Repealed: 340-090-0045 Subject: The Oregon Legislature adopted SB 263 in 2015. The proposed rule amendments and adoptions conform existing recycling and waste prevention and reduction rules to comply with that legislation. The proposed rules would: - Revise wastesheds’ recovery goals and clarify those are now voluntary and not enforceable by DEQ; - Describe DEQ’s methodology for measuring progress towards SB 263’s new statewide food waste, plastic, and carpet recovery goals; - Add SB 263’s four new recycling program elements, increasing to thirteen the options available to local governments; - Amend the expanded education and promotion program element to include a contamination reduction education plan. The plan would require local governments that use this element to also determine contamination levels in collected recyclables and take educational action to reduce contamination. - Update minimum numbers of recycling program elements required for certain cities. For each city with a minimum number of recycling program elements, the county administered area between the city’s limits and urban growth boundary, or within Metro, the area outside the city’s limits but within Metro, would also need a recycling program with the city’s minimum number of elements. - Add SB 263’s seven new waste prevention education and reuse program elements and require program element minimums ranging from three to five elements; - Remove DEQ rules’ references to the discontinued Two Percent Recovery Rate Credit programs (“Two Percent Credit Programs”); - Revise rules allowing local governments to implement alternative programs to meet their minimum recycling requirements and, where applicable, waste prevention and reuse program requirements. The proposed rules would allow a local government using a DEQapproved alternative program the adaptability of meeting either the lesser of its recovery goal or recovery levels comparable to similar communities. - “Clean up” OAR 340-90 to make Division 90 consistent with the SB 263-based proposed rules