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IGR BILL REPORT <br />March 3, 2011 / IGR COMMITTEE MEETING <br />CITY OF EUGENE <br />HB 2081 <br />Relating Clause: Relating to greenhouse gas emissions from trucking; creating new provisions; amending <br />ORS 468.140; and declaring an emergency. <br />Title:Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules establishing requirements for <br />certain heavy-duty trucks and box-type trailers. Specifies timetable for compliance with <br />rules. Requires commission to adopt rules establishing requirements for fleet compliance <br />plans for certain heavy-duty trucks and box-type trailers. Requires commission to adopt <br />rules relating to prohibition on idling of commercial motor vehicles. Provides exceptions. <br />Declares emergency, effective on passage. <br />Sponsored by: Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5). Presession filed (at <br />the request of Governor John A. Kitzhaber for Department of Environmental Quality) <br />URL:http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2081.intro.pdf <br />Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation <br />Eric Jones PW-ADM 1/24/2011 -- Monitor <br /> <br />Comments: Defer to Tony Jobanek’s recommendation. The specific language we’re looking for is an <br />exemption of public agency fleet vehicles. <br />Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation <br />Ethan Nelson PDD-BPS 2/9/2011 -- -- <br /> <br />Comments: Defer to Eric Jones in PW. <br />ContactRespondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation <br />Sharon Olson PWW 1/11/2011 -- -- <br />Comments: Defer to Tony Jobanek. <br />ContactRespondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation <br />Michelle Cahill PWW 2/18/2011 -- -- <br />Comments: Defer to Tony Jobanek. <br />ContactRespondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation <br />Tony Jobanek PWM 1/24/2011 -- Monitor <br />Comments: We need to determine what the exceptions are in this bill. If the City fleet is required to <br />retrofit its large class vehicles with emission reduction technology there would be cost to <br />the organization. We already have a no-idling policy in place for City owned vehicles, <br />but if required, a more restrictive no-idling policy could be necessary to meet changes in <br />idling restrictions if the municipal fleet was not exempt from the new regulations. For <br />1 <br />