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Solid Fuel Space Heating Devices
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As used in sections 6.255 to 6.265, the following words and phrases mean:

City manager. City manager or designee, including, if the city manager so designates, LRAPA.

Green advisory. A 24-hour period beginning at 4:00 p.m. when PM10 levels are forecast by LRAPA to be less than 100 micrograms per cubic meter and PM2.5 levels are forecast to be less than 25 micrograms per cubic meter.

LRAPA. Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority, a regional air quality control authority established under the provisions of, and with authority and powers derived from, Oregon Revised Statutes 468.500 et seq.

Opacity. The degree to which an emission reduces transmission of light or obscures the view of an object in the background.

Pellet stove. An enclosed solid fuel space heating device designed and operated to burn manufactured solid fuel and having an air-to-fuel ratio greater than 35-to-1 as determined by the federal test method described in 40 CFR Part 60.534.

Person. Any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or public or private organization of any character.

Person in charge of property. An agent, occupant, lessee, tenant, contract purchaser, or other person having possession or control of property.

PM2.5. Solid or liquid particulate matter (excluding uncombined water) with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers.

PM10. Solid or liquid particulate matter (excluding uncombined water) with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 10 micrometers.

Sole source of heat. A solid fuel space heating device which constitutes the only source of heating in a private residence. A solid fuel space heating device shall not be considered to be the sole source of heat if the private residence is equipped with any permanently installed furnace or heating system utilizing oil, natural gas, electricity or propane.

Solid fuel space heating device. Any device designed or operated to burn solid fuel for the heating of the interior of a building, including, but not limited to, solid fuel burning stoves, fireplaces or wood stoves of any nature, combination fuel furnaces or boilers used for space heating which can burn solid fuel, and solid fuel burning cooking stoves. “Solid fuel space heating device” does not include natural gas fired artificial fireplaces.

Stage I red advisory. A 24-hour period beginning at 4:00 p.m. when PM10 levels are forecast by LRAPA to be greater than or equal to 125 micrograms per cubic meter but less than 150 micrograms per cubic meter, or when PM2.5 levels are forecast by LRAPA to be greater than or equal to 30 micrograms per cubic meter but less than 35 micrograms per cubic meter, within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary.

Stage II red advisory. A 24-hour period beginning at 4:00 p.m. when PM10 levels are forecast by LRAPA to be greater than or equal to 150 micrograms per cubic meter, or when PM2.5 levels are forecast by LRAPA to be greater than or equal to 35 micrograms per cubic meter, within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary.

Visible emissions. The reduction in transmission of light or the obscuring of the view of an object in the background caused by the air pollutants emitted by the heating device. This does not include the visual distortion caused by the heated air emitted by the heating device.

Yellow advisory. A 24-hour period beginning at 4:00 p.m. when PM10 levels are forecast by LRAPA to be greater than or equal to 100 micrograms per cubic meter but less than 125 micrograms per cubic meter, or when PM2.5 levels are forecast to be greater than or equal to 25 micrograms per cubic meter but less than 30 micrograms per cubic meter.

(Section 6.250 added by Ordinance No. 19731, enacted November 5, 1990, effective January 1, 1991; amended by Ordinance No. 19815, enacted December 2, 1991; Ordinance No. 20261, enacted July 22, 2002, effective August 22, 2002; Ordinance No. 20399, enacted November 26, 2007, effective December 28, 2007; and Ordinance No. 20584, enacted July 17, 2017, effective August 24, 2017.)