ORS 466.020: Rules and orders.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
In accordance with applicable provisions of ORS chapter 183, the Environmental Quality Commission shall: (1) Adopt rules and issue orders thereon, including but not limited to establishing minimum requirements for the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes, minimum requirements for operation, maintenance, monitoring, reporting and supervision of treatment, storage or disposal sites, and requirements and procedures for selection of such sites. (2) Adopt rules and issue orders thereon relating to the procedures of the Department of Environmental Quality to hearings, filing of reports, submission of plans and the issuance, revocation and modification of permits issued under ORS 466.005 to 466.385 and 466.992. (3) Adopt rules and issue orders thereon to classify as hazardous waste those residues defined in ORS 466.005 (7)(b). (4) Adopt rules and issue orders thereon relating to reporting by generators of hazardous waste concerning type, amount and disposition of such hazardous waste and waste minimization activities. Rules may be adopted exempting certain classes of generators from such requirements. (5) Adopt rules and issue orders relating to the transportation of hazardous waste by air or water. (6) Adopt rules and issue orders relating to the production, marketing, distribution, transportation and burning of fuels containing or derived from hazardous waste. (7) Adopt rules and issue orders relating to corrective action, including corrective action within the facility or beyond the facility boundary if necessary to protect public health or the environment, for all releases of hazardous waste or constituents of hazardous waste occurring from locations within the facility or originating within the facility and releasing beyond the facility boundary, from any hazardous waste treatment, storage or disposal facility, regardless of the time the hazardous waste was placed in the facility. (8) Adopt rules and issue orders relating to the restriction or prohibition of nonhazardous liquid waste in a hazardous waste disposal site. (9) Adopt rules necessary to implement the certification requirements of ORS 466.357. [Formerly 459.440; 1987 c.540 §6; 1989 c.833 §112]
Administrative rules citing this section
- OAR 340-043-0060: Exemption from State Permit for Hazardous Waste Treatment or Disposal Facilities — implements
- OAR 340-100-0001: Purpose and Scope — authority
- OAR 340-100-0003: Public Disclosure and Confidentiality — authority
- OAR 340-100-0004: Table of Contents, Divisions 100 to 120 — implements
- OAR 340-100-0020: Petitions, General — implements
- OAR 340-100-0021: Petitions for Equivalent Testing or Analytical Methods — implements
- OAR 340-100-0022: Petitions to Amend Division 101 to Exclude a Waste Produced at a Particular Facility — implements
- OAR 340-101-0033: Additional Hazardous Wastes — authority
- OAR 340-101-0040: Wastes Requiring Special Management — implements
- OAR 340-102-0011: Hazardous Waste Determination — authority
- OAR 340-102-0070: Farmers — implements
- OAR 340-103-0010: Purpose and Applicability — implements
- OAR 340-103-0011: Identification Number — implements
- OAR 340-103-0030: Immediate Action — implements
- OAR 340-103-0031: Discharge Clean Up — implements
- OAR 340-104-0001: Purpose, Scope and Applicability — implements
- OAR 340-104-0003: Relationship to Interim Status — implements
- OAR 340-104-0011: Identification Number — implements
- OAR 340-104-0075: Periodic Report — implements
- OAR 340-104-0143: Financial Assurance for Facility Closure — implements
- OAR 340-104-0145: Financial Assurance for Post-Closure Care — implements
- OAR 340-104-0147: Liability Requirements — implements
- OAR 340-104-0149: Use of State-Required Mechanisms — implements
- OAR 340-104-0151: Wording of the Instruments — implements
- OAR 340-104-0340: Applicability to Incinerators — implements
- OAR 340-104-0343: Performance Standards — implements
- OAR 340-104-1201: Design and Operating Standards — authority
- OAR 340-105-0005: State Program Reporting — implements
- OAR 340-105-0010: General Application Requirements and Requirements Applicable to Existing Management Facilities — implements
- OAR 340-105-0013: Contents of Part A of the Permit Application — implements
- OAR 340-105-0014: Contents of Part B — implements
- OAR 340-105-0020: Specific Part B Information Requirements for Land Treatment Facilities — implements
- OAR 340-105-0021: Specific Part B Information Requirements for Landfills — implements
- OAR 340-105-0021: Specific Part B Information Requirements for Landfills — authority
- OAR 340-105-0030: Conditions Applicable to All Permits — implements
- OAR 340-105-0110: Facility Permit Charges and Fees — authority
- OAR 340-105-0113: Fee Schedules — authority
- OAR 340-105-0125: Corrective Action Cost Recovery — authority
- OAR 340-105-0130: Facility Fee Late Charges and Collections — authority
- OAR 340-105-0140: General Inspection Provisions — implements
- OAR 340-106-0002: Requirements Not Applicable — implements
- OAR 340-109-0020: Empty Container Management — implements
- OAR 340-110-0001: Purpose, Scope and Applicability — implements
- OAR 340-110-0080: Records and Monitoring — authority
- OAR 340-111-0020: Definitions — implements
- OAR 340-120-0025: Off-Site Transportation Emergencies — implements
This rule cites
- ORS chapter 183 — target_record_not_published
- ORS 466.005 — resolved
- 466.385 — resolved
- 466.992 — resolved
- ORS 466.357 — resolved
Cited by
- ORS 459.412: Definition for ORS 459.411 to 459.417.
- ORS 466.070: Standards for rules.
- ORS 468.922: Unlawful disposal, storage or treatment of hazardous waste in the second degree.
- ORS 468.926: Unlawful disposal, storage or treatment of hazardous waste in the first degree.
- ORS 468.929: Unlawful transport of hazardous waste in the second degree.
- ORS 468.931: Unlawful transport of hazardous waste in the first degree.
- ORS 633.311: Definitions for ORS 633.311 to 633.479.
- OAR 340-100-0010: Definitions
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors466.html