HB 2017 (2017), enrolled text

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SECTION 161. (1) The Environmental Quality Commission by rule shall prohibit fuel that consists entirely of biodiesel, designated as B100, from being considered a low carbon fuel under the low carbon fuel standards unless the fuel complies with ASTM D 6751 and has an oxidation stability induction period of not less than eight hours as determined by the test method described in European standard EN 15751. (2) The commission may adopt rules different from those required under subsection (1) of this section if an ASTM or EN standard applicable to biodiesel is approved or amended after March 12, 2015, or if the commission finds that different rules are necessary due to changes in technology or fuel testing or production methods. SECTION 162. (1) The clean fuels program adopted by the Environmental Quality Com- mission by rule under ORS 468A.275 must be designed such that: (a) Regulated parties generate deficits and may reconcile the deficits, and thus comply with the low carbon fuel standards for a compliance period, by obtaining and retiring credits; (b) Regulated parties and credit generators may generate credits for fuels used as sub- stitutes or alternatives for gasoline or diesel; (c) Regulated parties, credit generators and credit aggregators shall have opportunities to trade credits; and (d) Regulated parties shall be allowed to carry over to the next compliance period a small deficit without penalty. (2) The Department of Environmental Quality shall, throughout a compliance period, regularly monitor the availability of fuels needed for compliance with the low carbon fuel standards. (3)(a) Under the clean fuels program, the department shall monthly calculate the volume-weighted average price of credits and, no later than the last day of the month im- mediately following the month for which the calculation is completed, post the formula and the nonaggregated data the department used for the calculation and the results of the cal- culation on the department’s website. (b) In completing the calculation required by this subsection, the department may ex- clude from the data set credit transfers without a price or other credit transfers made for a price that falls two standard deviations outside of the mean credit price for the month. The data posted on the department’s website under this section may not include any indi- vidually identifiable information or information that would otherwise constitute a trade se- cret under ORS 192.501. (4)(a) In addition to the calculation required under subsection (3) of this section, the de- partment shall annually calculate for the preceding calendar year: (A) The average cost or cost-savings of the low carbon fuel standards per gallon of gas- oline and per gallon of diesel; and (B) The total greenhouse gas emissions reductions attributable to the low carbon fuel standards. (b) No later than April 15 of each year, the department shall post the formula the de- partment used for the calculations required by this subsection and the results of the calcu- lations on the department’s website. (c) The State Department of Agriculture shall furnish the formula and results of the calculations required by this subsection to each gas station in this state to facilitate com- pliance by gas station owners or operators with ORS 646.932. SECTION 163. (1) The division of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services that serves as office of economic analysis shall annually coordinate with the Department of En- vironmental Quality to develop a fuel supply forecast to project the availability of fuels to Oregon necessary for compliance with the low carbon fuel standards. The fuel supply fore- cast shall include, but need not be limited to, the following with reference to the next com- pliance period of the clean fuels program: Enrolled House Bill 2017 (HB 2017-A) Page 138

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