Item 3: Ordinance Adopting Hazardous Substance Tracking Instructions

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Attachment B. Acronyms and Definitions Accounting Period: The accounting period for reporting is the calendar year, January 1 to December 31. Article: A solid manufactured item which remains solid throughout See Appendix F, the manufacturing process, the unit size of which weighs more than 1 Questions 1-17 gram (0.0022 pounds), that is used by a facility in whole or in part, without undergoing any chemical changes, in manufacturing of a product or a portion of a product, and that does not release a reportable hazardous substance under normal conditions of the processing of that item at the facility. See page 13 for additional information concerning articles. CAA: Clean Air Act CAS Number: Unique identification number assigned to chemicals by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). Chemicals may be known by many names, but they will have just one CAS number. CFR: Code of Federal Regulations CERCLA: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Charter Amendment: The Eugene City Charter, Section 54. Amendment IV is referred to -to- Charter Amendment Definitions: Other definitions are shown in Article III of the Charter Amendment (see Appendix A). Chemical Name: The scientific designation of a substance in accordance with the nomenclature system developed by the Chemical Abstracts Service. Consumed: Chemically altered during manufacturing so as to no longer exist in its former chemical composition. CWA: Clean Water Act DEQ: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality EHS: Extremely Hazardous Substance as defined in Section 302 of 42 USC 11002 EPA: United States Environmental Protection Agency EPBT: Extremely Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxin EPCRA: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act Facility: All buildings, equipment, structures and other stationary items that are located and operated on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and that are owned or operated by the same person(s) and relate to a common product. If a corporate entity operates two or more separate (non-contiguous) facilities that are required to report, then a separate report is required for each facility. LEL: Lower Explosive Limit LRAPA: Lane (County) Regional Air Pollution Authority Materials Accounting/Full Materials Accounting/Materials Balance Reports: An accounting of the flow of individual hazardous substances into a facility, through its so that inputs equal outputs of each hazardous processes, and into its products and wastes, substance to the accuracy of the smallest accounting units (see pages 15-19 and Appendix A), utilizing the best information available to the reporting entity. MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheet NPDES: National Pollution Discharge Elimination System - 3-