Or. Admin. Code § 340-090-0750

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 10, October 1, 2024

Section 340-090-0750 - Program plan amendments and producer responsibility organization fees

(1) A producer responsibility organization's routine, annual updating of base fee rate amounts to align with the most recent supply information received from member producers or updated material cost allocations from related studies does not constitute a method change and will not require a program plan amendment.

(2) Alternate approaches to determining membership fees, including changes to the overall criteria for and magnitude of graduated fee adjustments, require a program plan amendment. Changes to the fee adjustments granted to individual producers will not require a program plan amendment.

(3) A producer responsibility organization may request provisional approval of a plan amendment if it needs to implement a fee structure method change rapidly due to financial urgency. If such a request is made, DEQ will respond within 30 days. If provisional approval is granted, the producer responsibility organization may implement the fee schedule method change on a provisional basis while the process for final approval, pursuant to ORS 459A.878, is ongoing. If the plan amendment is ultimately not approved, the producer responsibility organization must correct its member accounts to reverse the provisional change.

Or. Admin. Code § 340-090-0750

DEQ 18-2023, adopt filed 11/17/2023, effective 11/17/2023

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 459A.975 & 468.020

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 459A.860 - 459A.975