Or. Admin. Code § 632-037-0025

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 10, October 1, 2024

Section 632-037-0025 - Technical Review Team

(1) Duties. The duties of the technical review team shall include but not be limited to the following:

(a) Provide an interagency and interdisciplinary review of technical permitting issues and serve in an advisory capacity to a project coordinating committee;

(b) Approve the methodology to be used in the collection of baseline data;

(c) Coordinate with the applicant the collection and verification of baseline data;

(d) Determine the study areas for a proposed mine;

(e) Identify any reasonable alternatives that were not analyzed by the applicant or contractor in a consolidated application and direct staff or a third party contractor to analyze such alternatives in accordance with the requirements of OAR 635-037-0045(5);

(f) Determine whether any part of a consolidated application, including an environmental evaluation, is complete;

(g) Determine whether a proposed mining operation complies with the standards established in ORS 517.952 to 517.989, these rules and the statutes and rules governing the issuance of all applicable permits set forth in ORS 517.952 to 517.989;

(h) Reconcile contradictory permit conditions;

(i) Advise an applicant of the application requirements relevant to a proposed mine; and

(j) Identify the characteristics reasonably expected to exist under local conditions under OAR 632-037-0010(24).

(2) Team Members. The Department shall act as the facilitating agency for the technical review team. Upon receipt of a notice of intent, the Department shall request the participation of a representative of each permitting and cooperating agency.

(3) Staff. Each permitting and cooperating agency shall designate an appropriate staff person(s) to participate on the technical review team. Each agency shall assume responsibility over those sections of the consolidated application and environmental evaluation over which the agency has permitting authority or special expertise. When special expertise resides in more than one agency, the agencies shall coordinate their activities to avoid duplication or contradiction.

(4) Meetings. The technical review team shall meet at those times necessary and appropriate to accomplish the purposes of ORS 517.952 to 517.989 and these rules. Any member may request a meeting of the team. If a majority of other members concur with the request, the Department shall facilitate a meeting.

Or. Admin. Code § 632-037-0025

GMI 2-1991, f. & cert. ef. 10-11-91; DGMI 1-2014, f. & cert. ef. 4-2-14

Stat. Auth.: ORS 517.750 - 517.995

Stats. Implemented: ORS 517.967