The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing that the Environmental Quality Commission approve updates and revisions to the Clean Fuels Program rules. The policy objective of the Clean Fuels Program Expansion 2022 Rulemaking is to expand the program's carbon intensity reduction requirements beyond the currently adopted 10 percent reduction in average carbon intensity by 2025. The new long-term targets will create certainty for investment in and deployment of lower-, zero-, and negative-carbon transportation fuels that are necessary to decarbonize Oregon's transportation sector.

In addition to proposing new carbon intensity reduction requirements, DEQ is also proposing changes to Division 12 and Division 253 to: 1) support the expansion of the program, 2) make the program's rules clearer and more efficient, and 3) ensure that participants in the program are complying with all its requirements.

DEQ is asking for public comment on the proposed rules. Anyone can submit comments and questions about this rulemaking. A person can submit comments by email, regular mail or at the public hearing. DEQ will only consider comments on the proposed rules that DEQ receives by 4 p.m., on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

Interested persons may submit comment by email to:

CFP.2022@deq.oregon.gov

By mail
Oregon DEQ
Attn: Cory-Ann Wind
700 NE Multnomah St., Suite 600
Portland, OR 97232-4100

DEQ plans to hold one public hearing. Anyone can attend this hearing by webinar. The public hearing is online only on July 19, 2022 starting at 9:00am.

To view copies of the notice documents, learn more about this rulemaking, and how to submit comments, you can view the rulemaking web page.


--Staff Reports

Post Date: 2022-06-29 18:09:28

Last Update: 2022-06-29 20:50:49