ORS 184.882: Technical advisory committee.

(1) The Department of Transportation shall establish a technical advisory committee to assist the department with issues related to implementing the program described in ORS 184.879. (2) Members of the technical advisory committee must include, but need not be limited to, representatives from the Department of Transportation and the Department of Environmental Quality, from construction firms engaged in transportation construction and maintenance, from suppliers of covered materials, from construction and material supplier industry associations, from workers in construction or manufacturing industries, from environmental organizations and from institutions of higher education. (3) The technical advisory committee shall: (a) Recommend quantities of covered materials below which the Department of Transportation need not require an environmental product declaration. (b) Advise the department as needed to prepare the reports required under ORS 184.884. (c) Advise and guide the department concerning: (A) The extent to which environmental product declarations are available or are in development; (B) Which of the department’s construction and maintenance activities are appropriate for inclusion in the program described in ORS 184.879 (2); (C) The time within which a bidder or proposer must submit an environmental product declaration and any related information; (D) How to properly analyze or interpret an environmental product declaration; (E) The content of and criteria for devising, adopting and implementing the strategies described in ORS 184.879 (2)(a)(C); (F) Potential changes to the design or implementation of the program described in ORS 184.879 in light of technological advances and the need to maintain reasonable competition for public contracts; and (G) Other matters the technical advisory committee deems necessary to achieve the goals of the program. (4) The technical advisory committee may recommend to the department additional materials for designation as covered materials. (5) A majority of the members of the technical advisory committee constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. (6) The technical advisory committee shall elect two of the members of the technical advisory committee to serve as cochairpersons. (7) The department shall appoint a replacement for any vacancy on the technical advisory committee. The replacement must become immediately effective upon appointment. (8) The technical advisory committee must meet at least four times within each calendar year at times and places specified by the call of the chairperson, of a majority of the members of the technical advisory committee or of the Director of Transportation. (9) The department shall provide staff support to the technical advisory committee. (10) Members of the technical advisory committee are not entitled to compensation or reimbursement for expenses and serve as volunteers on the technical advisory committee. [2022 c.74 §2]