Item 1: Ordinance Adopting Hazardous Substance Tracking Instructions

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Attachment B. 1.has a total input of more than 2,640 pounds of hazardous substances during a calendar year; 2.employs ten or more full-time equivalent employees; 3.is not exempted pursuant to Section 2 .2. G."Input" means the sum of the following categories of each hazardous substance: 1.inventory at the facility at the beginning of the accounting period; 2.waste stored at the facility at the beginning of the accounting period; 3.quantity produced at the facility; and 4.quantity brought to the facility. H."Materials balance" means an accounting of the flow of individual hazardous substances into a facility, through its processes, and into its products and wastes such that inputs equal outputs of each hazardous substance to the accuracy of the smallest accounting units (Article III(K)) for each hazardous or extremely hazardous substance. I."Output" means the sum of the following categories of each hazardous substance: 1.quantity chemically altered in the facility's processes; 2.quantity shipped from the facility in product; 3.quantity transferred away from the facility as waste; 4.waste stored at the facility at the end of the accounting period; 5.quantity emitted to the air; 6.quantity discharged into publicly treated sewage; 7.quantity released into surface waters; 8.quantity eliminated through treatment at the facility; 9.quantity eliminated through energy recovery at the facility; 10.quantity disposed on-site; and 11.inventory at the facility at the end of the accounting period. J."Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, association, the City of Eugene, or any officer, agent, or employee thereof. K."Smallest accounting unit" means 2.2 pounds of a hazardous substance; 0.022 pounds of an extremely hazardous substance. L."Trade secret information" means information which is exempted from disclosure as a trade secret pursuant to any Federal or State law including but not limited to 42 U.S.C. 11042(b) of the Federal Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act. ARTICLE IV RESOLUTION Section 4. Be it resolved and ordained by the people of Eugene that: all hazardous substance users in Eugene shall file an annual, public, materials balance report listing inputs and outputs of all hazardous substances obtained, used, or generated. ARTICLE V - HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES PUBLIC REPORTING Section 5.1. Materials balance reporting A.Materials balance reports shall indicate the weight in pounds of hazardous substances in each of the categories enumerated in Article III(G) and III(I). - 28-