OAR 837-085-0200: Compliance Audit Program — General

(1) The State Fire Marshal shall provide a compliance audit program to assist and ensure a covered employer, owner, or operator complies with the statutes, regulations, rules, standards or orders of the Community Right-to-Know and Protection Act. (2) The compliance audit program shall include, but is not limited to: (a) Providing training, guidance and assistance to a covered employer, owner, or operator and the community; (b) Evaluating and auditing facilities where hazardous substances are likely to be manufactured, generated, used, stored, possessed, or disposed of; (c) Issuing Notice of Noncompliance and Proposed/Final Penalty Assessment Orders for noncompliance with the Community Right-to-Know and Protection Act and administrative rules; (d) Issuing correction orders; (e) Assessing civil monetary penalties for noncompliance; (f) Holding informal conferences with a covered employer, owner, or operator or their representatives to discuss notices of noncompliance, penalty assessments, reporting requirements or correction orders without limiting or extending their appeal rights; (g) Granting or denying requests for extensions of the time set by correction orders; and (h) Examining and auditing a covered employer, owner, or operator's hazardous substance information records.