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Amendment and, if so, what the reporting and material accounting thresholds for those chemicals should be, are appropriate questions for the City Manager to answer after consultation with the Toxics Board. Now, therefore, THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1 . The first paragraph of Section 3.692 of the Eugene Code, 1971, is amended and definitions for material accounting threshold and reporting threshold are added in alphabetical A@A@ order therein to provide: 3.692 Hazardous Substances User Fee- Definitions. Notwithstanding any definitions contained in the amendment, as used in sections 3.690 through 3.696 of this code, the following words and phrases mean: Material Accounting Threshold. The quantity of total inputs of a particular chemical during a calendar year, below which a full accounting of inputs and outputs of that chemical is not required. Should total inputs of a chemical fall between this threshold and the reporting threshold, the total input quantity is required to be reported. Reporting Threshold. The quantity of total inputs of a particular chemical during a calendar year, below which that chemical is not required to be reported. Should total inputs of a chemical fall between this threshold and the material accounting threshold, the total input quantity is required to be reported. Section 2 . A new Section 3.696 is hereby added to the Eugene Code, 1971, to provide: 3.696 Hazardous Substances - Addition of Chemicals to Hazardous Substances List. (1) Within 60 days of learning that a chemical has been added to one or more of the lists described in Article III, section E, subsections 1(a), (b), (c), (f) and (g), 2, 3, and 4, of Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter of 1976, the city manager shall request advice from the toxics board as to whether the new chemical should be added to the list of substances required to be reported under Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter of 1976. The city manager shall also request the toxics boards advice on the appropriate reporting threshold and materials accounting threshold = for each chemical in question. (2) After obtaining the advice of the toxics board as provided in subsection (1) of this section, and after following the procedures described in section 2.019 of this code, the city manager may adopt an administrative rule that adds a chemical or chemicals to the list of chemicals subject to the requirements of Amendment IV to the Eugene Charter of 1976 and establishes Ordinance - 2