To comply with ECO, employers must:

1. (1) Conduct a baseline survey of employees to establish a baseline auto trip rate (or provide documentation of the current auto trip rate that is at least as accurate as a survey would provide);
2. (2) Calculate a target auto trip rate by reducing the baseline auto trip rate by 10 percent;
3. (3) Submit a registration form as supplied by the Department;
4. (4) Design and implement a trip reduction strategy that has the potential to achieve the target auto trip rate by the target compliance deadline and the potential to maintain the target auto trip rate;

5. (5) Either:

   1. (a) Prepare and implement an auto trip reduction plan for each work site and submit the plan to the Department for approval; or

      NOTE: Enforcement will be based upon implementing the approved plan, see OAR 340-242-0110.

   2. (b) Provide written notice to the Department of participation in an equivalent commute trip reduction program.

      NOTE: Enforcement will be based on good faith effort, see OAR 340-242-0180 and special requirements in OAR 340-242-0110.

6. (6) Survey employees every two years, report survey findings to the Department; and
7. (7) Continue to implement strategies to achieve or maintain the target auto trip rate.

Statutory/Other Authority

ORS 468.020

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 468A.363

History

DEQ 3-2007, f. & cert. ef. 4-12-07
DEQ 14-1999, f. & cert. ef. 10-14-99, Renumbered from 340-030-0860
DEQ 17-1996, f. & cert. ef. 8-14-96