Oregon Administrative Code

325-011-0040 Commission’s Use of Patient Safety Data (1) The Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) may create ad hoc committees to advise OPSC on best practices in patient safety, including but not limited to learning from and sharing Patient Safety Data. (2) At least quarterly…

325-011-0045 Commitment to Adverse Event Reporting (1) Eligible entities reporting adverse events in the Oregon Patient Safety Reporting Portal pursuant to a completed commitment agreement as described in this section are entitled to the benefits set forth in these rules and ORS …

325-011-0046 Patient Safety Activity Agreements (1) Prior to engaging in a patient safety activity convened or facilitated by the Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC), all individuals shall complete and submit a signed patient safety activity agreement. (2) Participants who ha…

325-011-0050 Withdrawal from Commitment Agreement (1) If an eligible entity chooses to withdraw from the commitment agreement to report adverse events as described in OAR 325-011-0045, it must submit its withdrawal request in writing to the Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC)…

325-011-0055 Annual Participant Fee (1) All hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and renal dialysis facilities licensed under ORS 441.015, all community retail pharmacies licensed under ORS 689, and all long term care facilities licensed under OAR 411, division 085 must pay an …

325-011-0060 List of Participants The Oregon Patient Safety Commission (OPSC) shall maintain a list on its website of eligible entities that, in the 12-month period preceding the creation of the list, have: (1) Submitted one or more patient safety data reports related to an adver…

325-035-0001 Definitions As used in OAR 325-035-0001 to 325-035-0050: (1) “Adverse health care incident” means an objective, definable and unanticipated consequence of patient care that is usually preventable and results in the death of or serious physical injury to the patient. …

325-035-0005 Filing a Notice of Adverse Health Care Incident When an adverse health care incident occurs in a health care facility, a location operated by a health care facility, or outside a health care facility and the incident involves a health care provider, the health care f…

325-035-0010 Notifying a Health Care Facility, Health Care Provider, or Patient of a Notice of Adverse Health Care Incident (1) When the Commission receives a notice from a patient, the Commission must notify all health care facilities and health care providers named in the notic…

325-035-0015 Procedures for Conducting Discussions (1) A health care facility, health care provider, or employer of a health care provider who files or is named in a notice of adverse health care incident and the patient who is the subject of the adverse health care incident may …

325-035-0020 Filing Reports about Resolution (1) The Commission must request a confidential report indicating the status of the matter from the person that filed the notice within 180 days after the notice was filed. If the matter is not resolved 180 days after the notice was fil…

325-035-0025 Mediation (1) If a discussion as described in OAR 325-035-0015 does not result in the resolution of an adverse health care incident, the patient and the health care facility or health care provider who files or is named in a notice of adverse health care incident may…

325-035-0030 Adding a Mediator to the Mediator Panel (1) The Commission must develop and maintain a panel of mediators that meet the qualifications established in this rule. (2) To be included in the Commission’s panel of mediators, an individual must meet the qualifications set …

325-035-0035 Mediator Qualifications (1) The Commission will consider a mediator to have met the required qualifications if the individual has: (a) Formally mediated 50 cases or engaged in 500 hours of formal mediation; (b) Completed 30 hours of education meeting the standards in…

325-035-0040 Publication of Mediator Panel (1) If a mediator has submitted information in accordance with OAR 325-035-0030 and attested that he or she meets the qualifications in OAR 325-035-0035, the Commission must publish the mediator’s name, contact information, and responses…

325-035-0045 The Role of the Administrative Entity (1) The Commission shall use notices of adverse health care incidents to: (a) Establish quality improvement techniques to reduce patient care errors that contribute to adverse health care incidents; (b) Develop evidence-based pre…

330-001-0000 Notification of Rulemaking Activities Prior to the adoption, amendment, or repeal of any rule, the Department of Energy shall give notice of the proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal: (1) In the Secretary of State’s Bulletin referred to in ORS 183.360 at least 15 d…

330-001-0005 Model Rules of Procedure Pursuant to the provisions of ORS 183.341, the Department of Energy adopts the Attorney General’s Model Rules of Procedure under the Administrative Procedure Act as amended and effective January 1, 2008. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183 Sta…

330-001-0025 Public Records Request (1) All public records of the Oregon Department of Energy are available for public inspection and copying at the department during usual business hours, except for records that the department has determined to be exempt or conditionally exempt …

330-007-0200 Statement of Purpose and Statutory Authority (1) Purpose. These rules control the Oregon Department of Energy's acquisition of information about a subject individual's criminal history through criminal records checks or other means and its use of that information to …

330-007-0210 Definitions For the purposes of this division, the following definitions apply: (1) "Authorized Designee" means a Department employee authorized to obtain and review criminal offender information and other criminal records information about a subject individual throu…

330-007-0240 Preliminary Fitness Determination (1) An authorized designee or contact person may conduct a preliminary fitness determination if the Department is interested in hiring or appointing an SI on a preliminary basis, pending a final fitness determination. (2) If an autho…

330-007-0320 Contact Person and Authorized Designees (1) Appointment. (a) The Department Director must designate the positions that include the responsibilities of an authorized designee or contact person. (b) Appointment to one of the designated positions must be contingent upon…

330-007-0330 Fees (1) The Department may charge a fee for acquiring criminal offender information for use in making a fitness determination. In any particular instance, the fee must not exceed the fee(s) charged the Department by the Oregon Department of State Police and the Fede…

330-010-0005 Purpose The purpose of these rules is to establish standards and procedures for determining whether information submitted to the Department of Energy shall be entitled to confidential treatment. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 469 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 469 H…

330-010-0010 Statutory Authority and Scope These rules carry out and are authorized by ORS 469.040(a), (d), and 469.090. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 469 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 469 History: DOE 2-1979, f. & ef. 3-20-79 DOE 4, f. & ef. 11-28-75

330-010-0015 Definitions For purposes of these rules, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Department” means the Department of Energy. (2) “Director” means the Director of the Department. (3) “Energy Supplier” means a coal supplier, petroleum supplier, or utility, as defin…

330-010-0020 Material Entitled to Confidential Treatment (1) Any information submitted to the Department by an energy supplier or any other person shall be entitled to confidential treatment if the Director, upon request of the one submitting the information, determines: (a) That…

330-010-0025 Procedure for Requesting Confidential Treatment (1) A request for confidential treatment shall be made in writing and shall be accompanied by copies of the information which is the subject of the request, segregated from any other information submitted for which conf…

330-010-0030 Determination by Director (1) Within ten business days after receipt of a request for confidential treatment, the Director shall review the request and make his findings on whether the standard set forth in OAR 330-010-0020 has been met. (2) The Director’s findings s…

330-020-0005 Purpose The purpose of these rules is to specify the form and content of certain information to be furnished annually to the Department of Energy by utilities regarding energy demand. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 469 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 469.080 History:…

330-020-0010 Statutory Authority and Procedure These rules carry out, and are authorized by ORS 469.080(1) and were adopted pursuant to 183.335. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 469 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 469.080 History: DOE 1-1984, f. 1-16-84, ef. 2-1-84 DOE 1-1979, f. &…

330-020-0020 Definitions — General For purposes of these rules, all terms are to be construed in a manner consistent with their common commercial usage absent an express indication to the contrary. When a term is commonly used in conflicting ways and there is no evidence of the m…

330-020-0025 Definitions — Specific For purposes of these rules, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Customer Class” means a broad category of customers who use a particular energy form for essentially similar purposes, including, but not limited to the following categori…

330-020-0030 Forms — General With the exception of the provisions of OAR 330-020-0065, all information required to be submitted by ORS 469.080(1), or by these rules shall be submitted on forms provided by the Department and described in these rules. The information required by ea…

330-020-0035 Forms — Specific Each utility shall submit its best estimate of information required by these rules, which shall be on the following forms to be supplied by the Department of Energy (all information submitted shall relate to the supplier’s Oregon business unless spec…

330-020-0045 Submission Deadline (1) Except as provided in OAR 330-020-0055, every energy supplier required to submit information to the Department by these rules shall submit the specific information required by 333-020-0035 on or before June 1st of each year. (2) For purposes o…

330-020-0050 Extension of Submission Deadline (1) Any energy supplier that finds it cannot meet the deadline set forth in OAR 330-020-0045 may apply to the Director for an extension of time. The application shall be by petition setting forth: (a) The reasons why it cannot meet th…

330-020-0055 Corrections Corrections of any information submitted by an energy supplier shall be reported to the Department promptly. The change or correction shall identify the form number, page and item to be changed or corrected and accompanied by a full explanation regarding …

330-020-0065 Substitution of Data Any energy supplier may, in lieu of submitting a form required by OAR 330-020-0035, submit a report it made to another governmental agency, if the alternative report submitted contains all of the information required by, and is clearly cross-inde…

330-020-0070 Request for Confidential Treatment If any form described in OAR 330-020-0035 requests proprietary information, the energy supplier may request that the information be received and maintained on a confidential basis (see the procedures in Department of Energy rule 330…

330-025-0005 Purpose and Statutory Authority (1) This rule is authorized pursuant to ORS 469.040(i)(d) and 469.080 and implements the policies enunciated by the Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) in its statement in explanation of the Need-for-Power Standard, adopted January 6…

330-025-0010 Definitions (1) “Utility”: Every electric utility that serves Oregon consumers and which has a service area load greater than 100 average megawatts and every generating and transmission company (G & T) acting on behalf of member utilities serving consumers in Oregon …

330-025-0015 Resource Plan Submission Requirement (1) On or before July 1, 1982, and on or before every April 1 of even numbered years thereafter, each utility shall submit to the Director a resource plan. This plan shall forecast and describe how the utility will meet demand on …

330-025-0020 Required Contents of the Resource Plan (1) The resource plan shall list and describe all existing and Planned Electric Generating Facilities expected to be in operation to meet the utility’s demand in each of the forecast years. The description of existing and Planne…

330-025-0025 Supplemental Information The Director may, by letter, require a utility to submit as part of the resource plan supplemental information assessing the effectiveness of resource development efforts, including conservation and renewable resources programs. Statutory/Oth…

330-025-0030 Rejection of Deficient Submission If the resource plan submitted by an electric Utility fails to satisfy requirements of OAR 330-025-0020, the Director shall reject the submission and require the Utility to submit a new plan which remedies the deficiencies. The Direc…

330-025-0035 Waiver of Certain Provision In the event of a demonstration of hardship or inapplicability, the Director may waive compliance with one or more of these provisions. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 469 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 469.030 History: DOE 4-1982, f. & ef…

330-030-0005 Purpose The purpose of these rules is to protect the confidentiality of information submitted to the Energy Facility Siting Council and the Oregon Office of Energy regarding security programs for nuclear-fueled power plants, nuclear installations, and the transportat…

330-030-0010 Legislative Authority These rules are promulgated concurrently by the Council and the Director pursuant to their respective rulemaking authorities contained in ORS Chapter 183, 469.040, 469.470, 469.501 to 469.507, 469.530, 469.560 and 192.500, in order to implement …