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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 52-13-01-F of the City Manager of the City of Eugene ADOPTION OF AMENDMENT TO ADMINISTRATIVE RULE R -3.696 TO ADD REPORTABLE CHEMICALS PURSUANT TO SECTION 54 OF THE EUGENE CHARTER, 2002. The City Manager of the City of Eugene finds that: A. Section 2.019 of the Eugene Code, 1971, authorizes the City Manager to adopt rules for the administration and implementation of any provisions of that Code. Section 3.696 of that Code specifically authorizes the City Manager, after obtaining advice from the Toxics Board, to adopt an administrative rule adding chemicals to the list of substances required to be reported under Section 54 (Amendment IV) of the Eugene Charter of 2002 ( "the Amendment "), establishing reporting and materials balancing thresholds for those chemicals, and establishing a date when the additional chemicals shall be subject to the reporting and materials accounting requirements. B. On December 20, 2000, the City Manager issued Administrative Order 52-00-04 - F adopting Hazardous Substances Reporting Requirements Administrative Rule R- 3.696. That Rule added chemicals to the list of substances required to be reported under the Amendment, established reporting thresholds and material accounting thresholds for each chemical added, and changed previously established reporting thresholds and material accounting thresholds for certain chemicals already subject to the reporting requirements. C. The Toxics Board has recommended that chemicals be added to the list of reportable chemicals. Therefore, on September 19, 2013, I issued Administrative Order No. 52- 13-01 proposing to amend Administrative Rule R -3.696 to add characteristic chemicals that have been previously reported by reporting businesses and to add chemicals which were previously removed in error. D. Notice of the proposed amendment was given by making copies of the Notice attached as Exhibit B to Administrative Order 52 -13 -01 available to the Mayor and City Councilors, to any person who had requested such notice, and by publication of the Notice in the Register Guard Newspaper on September 30, October 1, 2, 3, and 4, 2013. The Notice provided that comments or objections be submitted within 15 days of the first date of publication of the Notice. No comments were received within the time or in the manner described in the Notice. Based on the above findings, and the authority of Sections 2.019 and 3.696 of the Eugene Code, 1971, Administrative Rule R- 3.696, which was adopted by Administrative Order Administrative Order - Page 1 of 2