Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Division 200 - GENERAL AIR POLLUTION PROCEDURES AND DEFINITIONS
Section 340-200-0030 - Exceptions
Universal Citation: OR Admin Rules 340-200-0030
Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 3, March 1, 2024
(1) Except as provided in section (2), OAR chapter 340 divisions 200 through 268 do not apply to:
(a) Agricultural operations, including
but not limited to:
(A) Growing or harvesting
crops;
(B) Raising fowl or
animals;
(C) Clearing or grading
agricultural land;
(D) Propagating
and raising nursery stock;
(E)
Propane flaming of mint stubble; and
(F) Stack or pile burning of residue from
Christmas trees, as defined in ORS 571.505, during the period beginning October
1 and ending May 31 of the following year.
(b) Equipment used in agricultural
operations, except boilers used in connection with propagating and raising
nursery stock.
(c) Barbecue
equipment used in connection with any residence.
(d) Heating equipment in or used in
connection with residences used exclusively as dwellings for not more than four
families, except woodstoves which shall be subject to regulation under OAR 340
divisions 240 and 262, and as provided in ORS 468A.020(1)(d). Emissions from
woodstoves can be used to create emission reduction credits in OAR 340 division
268.
(e) Fires set or permitted by
any public agency when such fire is set or permitted in the performance of its
official duty for the purpose of weed abatement, prevention or elimination of a
fire hazard, or instruction of employees in the methods of fire fighting, which
in the opinion of the agency is necessary.
(f) Fires set pursuant to permit for the
purpose of instruction of employees of private industrial concerns in methods
of fire fighting, or for civil defense instruction.
(2) Section (1) does not apply to the extent:
(a) Otherwise provided in ORS 468A.555 to
468A.620, 468A.790, 468A.992, 476.380 and 478.960;
(b) Necessary to implement the federal Clean
Air Act ( P.L. 88-206 as amended) under ORS 468A.025, 468A.030, 468A.035,
468A.040, 468A.045 and 468A.300 to 468A.330; or
(c) Necessary for the EQC, in the
commission's discretion, to implement a recommendation of the Task Force on
Dairy Air Quality created under section 3, chapter 799, Oregon Laws 2007, for
the regulation of dairy air contaminant emissions.
NOTE: This rule is included in the State of Oregon Clean Air Act Implementation Plan that EQC adopted under OAR 340-200-0040.
Publications: Publications referenced are available from the agency.]
Stat. Auth.: ORS 468 & 468A
Stats. Implemented: ORS 468A.020
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