OAR 340-212-0280: Compliance Assurance Monitoring: Savings Provisions

Nothing in OAR 340-212-0200 through 340-212-0280: (1) Excuses the owner or operator of a source from complying with any existing emission limitation or standard, or with any existing monitoring, testing, reporting, or recordkeeping requirement that may apply under federal, state, or local law, or any other applicable requirements under the FCAA. The requirements of OAR 340-212-0200 through 340-212-0280 may not be used to justify the approval of monitoring less stringent than the monitoring required under separate legal authority. Nor are they intended to establish minimum requirements for the purpose of determining the monitoring to be imposed under separate authority under the FCAA, including monitoring in permits issued pursuant to title I of the FCAA. (2) Restricts or abrogates the authority of the Administrator or DEQ to impose additional or more stringent monitoring, recordkeeping, testing, or reporting requirements on any owner or operator of a source under any provision of the FCAA, including but not limited to sections 114(a)(1) and 504(b), or state law, as applicable; (3) Restricts or abrogates the authority of the Administrator or DEQ to take any enforcement action under the FCAA for any violation of an applicable requirement or of any person to take action under section 304 of the FCAA.