Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Division 259 - CLEAN DIESEL GRANT AND LOAN RULES
Section 340-259-0015 - Definitions

(1) "Applicable local, state or federal pollution or emissions law" means a regulation that requires a diesel engine to meet pollution or emissions standards and has a compliance date before the installation of a repower or retrofit is completed.

(2) "Applicant" means the owner or operator of an Oregon diesel engine, a nonroad Oregon diesel engine or an Oregon diesel truck engine applying for a grant or loan under this division.

(3) "Clean Diesel Service Provider" means a person that the Department has certified under OAR 259-0065 to install qualifying repowers or retrofits under the Clean Diesel Repower and Retrofit Tax Credit regulations, 340-016-0270 through 340-016-0340, or the Clean Diesel Grant and Loan regulations, 340-259-0005 through 340-259-0065.

(4) "Combined weight" has the meaning given that term in ORS 825.005.

(5) "Cost-effectiveness threshold" means the cost, in dollars, per ton of diesel particulate matter reduced determined pursuant to OAR 340-259-0025.

(6) "Grant Round" means the period of time in which the Department accepts applications for grants and loans and disburses grant or loan awards.

(7) "Heavy-duty truck" means a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles operated as a unit that has a combined weight that is greater than 26,000 pounds.

(8) "Incremental cost" means the cost of a qualifying repower or retrofit less a baseline cost that would otherwise be incurred in the normal course of business.

(9) "Medium-duty truck" means a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles operated as a unit that has a combined weight that is greater than 14,000 pounds but less than or equal to 26,000 pounds.

(10) "Motor vehicle" has the meaning given that term in ORS 825.005.

(11) "Nonroad Oregon diesel engine" means any Oregon diesel engine that was not designed primarily to propel a motor vehicle on public highways of this state.

(12) "Operating condition" means functioning properly without any needed repairs.

(13) "Oregon diesel engine" means an engine at least 50 percent of the use of which, as measured by miles driven or hours operated, will occur in Oregon for the three years following the repowering or retrofitting of the engine.

(14) "Oregon diesel truck engine" means a diesel engine in a truck at least 50 percent of the use of which, as measured by miles driven or hours operated, has occurred in Oregon for the two years preceding the scrapping of the engine.

(15) "Public highway" has the meaning given that term in ORS 825.005.

(16) "Qualified Installer" means a person that installs a repower or retrofit and is:

(17) "Repower" means to scrap an old diesel engine and replace it with a new engine, a used engine or a remanufactured engine, or with electric motors, drives or fuel cells, with a minimum useful life of seven years.

(18) "Retrofit" means to equip a diesel engine with new emissions-reducing parts or technology after the manufacture of the original engine. A retrofit must use the greatest degree of emissions reduction available for the particular application of the equipment retrofitted that meets the cost-effectiveness threshold specified in OAR 340-259-0025.

(19) "Scrap" means to destroy and render inoperable.

(20) "Truck" means a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles operated as a unit that has a combined weight hat is greater than 14,000 pounds.