OAR 731-040-0020: Definitions

As used in OAR 731, division 40 rules: (1) “Commission” means the Oregon Transportation Commission. (2) “Department” means the Department of Transportation. (3) “Director” means the Director of the Oregon Department of Transportation or the designee thereof. (4) “Interstate bridge” means a bridge over both a waterway that contains a boundary line with another state and the boundary line. (5) “OIPP Partnership Agreement” means a public-private partnership under the Oregon Innovative Partnership Program, as defined in OAR 731-070-0010. (6) “Outcome equity” means acknowledging existing inequities and striving to prevent historically excluded and underserved communities identified at the project-level from bearing a disproportionate burden of negative effects that directly result from the project, and seeking to improve transportation accessibility, options for travel, community health, and affordability for the identified community or communities. (7) “Private entity” has the meaning given in ORS 383.003. (8) “Process equity plan” means a plan for implementing a Tollway Project, from design to post-implementation monitoring and evaluation, that encourages the meaningful participation of individuals and groups from historically excluded and underserved communities, as identified for the Tollway Project. (9) “Related facility” has the meaning given in ORS 383.003. (10) “Toll” has the meaning given in ORS 383.003. (11) “Tollway operator” has the meaning given in ORS 383.003. (12) “Tollway project” has the meaning given in ORS 383.003. (13) "Tollway Concept Proposal” or “TCP” means an unsolicited preliminary proposal for a tollway project that is used to investigate the project’s feasibility and potential impacts and benefits. (14) “Unit of government” has the meaning given in ORS 383.003.