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6. Upon receipt of the hearings official's decision, or upon expira#ion of time for <br />appeal (if no one appeals), the City Manager shall add the product covered by the <br />decision to Appendix A (if the decision is to prohibit the product because safe and <br />cost-effective alternatives exist) or to Appendix B (if the decision is to not prohibit the <br />product because no safe and cost-effective .alternative exists). <br />7. If the decision is to prohibit the product, the prohibition becomes effective 90 <br />days after the City Manager adds the product to Appendix A. <br />R-6.725-D Criteria and Methodology for Determining Additional Ozone-Depleting <br />Products or Exclusion of Products from Prohibition. <br />1. Addition of Products. Products or a group of similar products may be <br />added to Appendix A upon.a de#ermination by the City Manager that an ozone-safe <br />substitute is available.. To qualify as an ozone-safe substitute, the product must meet <br />both of the following, requirements: <br />~(a)The alternate product is readily available and its use. will cost no more <br />than the use of the ozone-depleting product. In determining the availability and <br />cost of a proposed alternative product, the following shall be considered: <br />(1) When an ozone-depleting product is a component in the manufacture of <br />a completed product for an end-user, the cost to be considered is .the final <br />cost to the end-user and not simply. the cost of the ingredient product. <br />{EXAMPLE: Rigid, ozone-depleting foam insulation is used in the <br />construction of some buildings. An alternative type of insulation could be an <br />acceptable substitute if its use did not cause the final cost of the building to <br />be; any higher.for the building purchaser.}; <br />(2) 'A product is readily available if it is for sale in any of the states of <br />:Oregon, Washington or California in sufficient quantities to meet the <br />commercial need for the product in Eugene; <br />and <br />(b)The use of the alternate product will not pose threats to the public health <br />and safety. In determiningthe safety of a product, the following shall be <br />considered: <br />{1) Any product or compound on the U.S. Environmental Protection. <br />Agency's (U.S. EPA) Significant New AI#ematives Policy (SNAP) list shall be <br />considered as meeting all the safety requirements of this rule; <br />(2) When comparing two products that are ozone depleting, the Ozone <br />Depletion Potential (ODP) index shall be considered when this data is <br />available from the U.S. EPA. A product containing ozone-depleting <br />chemicals with an ODP index of 0.5 or less may be consider as an <br />r"'` <br />Proposed Ozone Protection Administrative Ruie - 4 o7rosi95 <br />