Or. Admin. Code § 330-092-0010

Current through Register Vol. 64, No. 1, January 1, 2025

Section 330-092-0010 - Definitions

As used in OAR 330-092-0010 through 330-092-0070:

(1) "Bottle-type water dispenser" or "water cooler" means a water dispenser that uses a bottle or reservoir as the source of potable water. This includes freestanding devices that consume energy to cool or heat potable water, including cold only units, hot and cold units, cook and cold units, storage-type units, and on-demand units.

(2) "California Rule" means Title 20, Division 2, Chapter 4, Article 4, California Code of Regulations, in effect on January 2019, revised September 2019.

(3) "Commercial dishwasher" means a machine designed to clean and sanitize plates, pots, pans, glasses, cups, bowls, utensils, and trays by applying sprays of detergent solution (with or without blasting media granules) and a sanitizing rinse.

(4) "Commercial fryer" means an appliance, including a cooking vessel, in which oil is placed to such a depth that the cooking food is essentially supported by displacement of the cooking fluid rather than by the bottom of the vessel. Heat is delivered to the cooking fluid by means of an immersed electric element of band-wrapped vessel (electric fryers) or by heat transfer from gas burners through either the walls of the fryer or through tubes passing through the cooking fluid (gas fryers).

(5) "Commercial steam cooker," also known as "compartment steamer," means a device with one or more food-steaming compartments in which the energy in the steam is transferred to the food by direct contact. Models may include countertop models, wall-mounted models, and floor models mounted on a stand, pedestal, or cabinet-style base.

(6) "Computers" and "computer monitors" have the meaning as used in California Rule.

(7) "Director" means the Director of the Oregon Department of Energy.

(8) "Department" means the Oregon Department of Energy.

(9) "Equipment" means a category of equipment or appliances regulated by ORS 469.229 to 469.261 and described in OAR 330-092-0015, below.

(10) "Electric storage water heater" means a consumer product that uses electricity as the energy source to heat domestic potable water, has a nameplate input rating of twelve kilowatts or less, contains nominally forty gallons but no more than one hundred twenty gallons of rated hot water storage volume, and supplies a maximum hot water delivery temperature less than one hundred eighty degrees Fahrenheit.

(11) "Faucet" and the following related terms have the meaning as used in California Rule:

(a) "Lavatory faucet"

(b) "Lavatory replacement aerator"

(c) "Kitchen faucet"

(d) "Kitchen replacement aerator"

(e) "Public lavatory faucet"

(f) "Flow rate"

(g) "Plumbing fitting"

(h) "Showerhead"

(i) "Water use"

(12) "High color rendering index (CRI) fluorescent lamp" means a fluorescent lamp with a color rendering index of eighty-seven or greater that is not a compact fluorescent lamp.

(13) "MAEDbS" means the modernized appliance efficiency database system established pursuant to section 1606(c) of the California Rule and maintained by the California energy commission.

(14) "Portable electric spa" means a factory-built electric spa or hot tub which may or may not include any combination of integral controls, water heating or water circulating equipment.

(15) "Pressure regulator" means a device that maintains constant operating pressure immediatesly downstream from the device, given higher pressure upstream.

(16) "Product" means a particular model number or series available from a particular manufacturer, as distinct from a category of equipment.

(17) "Residential ventilating fan" means a ceiling, wall-mounted, or remotely mounted in-line fan designed to be used in a bathroom or utility room, whose purpose is to move air from inside the building to the outdoors.

(18) "Spray sprinkler body" means the exterior case or shell of a sprinkler incorporating a means of connection to the piping system designed to convey water to a nozzle or orifice.

Or. Admin. Code § 330-092-0010

DOE 2-2008, f. 2-28-08, cert. ef. 3-1-08; DOE 6-2013, f. 12-23-13, cert. ef. 1-1-14; DOE 2-2020, amend filed 08/28/2020, effective 9/1/2021; DOE 2-2021, amend filed 11/23/2021, effective 1/1/2022; DOE 5-2022, amend filed 12/02/2022, effective 1/1/2023

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 469.040, ORS 469.255 & ORS 469.261

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 469.229-469.261 & OL 2022, chapter 4 (House Bill 4057)