OAR 340-259-0005: Clean Diesel Initiative Goal

(1) The Environmental Quality Commission establishes the Clean Diesel Initiative Goal to reduce excess lifetime risk of cancer due to exposure to diesel engine emissions to no more than one case per million individuals by 2017. (2) In order to meet the Clean Diesel Initiative Goal, the Environmental Quality Commission establishes a target to substantially reduce the risk to school children from diesel engine emissions produced by Oregon school buses by the end of 2013. To achieve this target by 2013, the Department will use the grant, loan, and tax credit programs in OAR 340-016-0210 through 340-016-0340 and 340-259-0010 through 340-259-0065 to attempt to: (a) Replace all Oregon diesel school buses model year 1993 and older with diesel school buses model year 2007 and newer; (b) Retrofit half of Oregon diesel school buses model years 1994 through 2006 with best available emissions retrofit technology pursuant to OAR 340-259-0015(18); and (c) Retrofit all appropriate Oregon diesel school buses model year 1994 and newer with closed crankcase ventilation, in order to reduce the exposure of school children to diesel particulate matter within the school bus cabin.