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14 March 2024  
(24-2294) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  State of 
Oregon  
2. Agency responsible:   
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), State of Oregon  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  ], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other  [X]: Re-establishing a climate mitigation program in place of the recently 
invalidated Climate Protection Program.  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise nat ional tariff 
heading.  ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Climate 
protection; Environmental protection (ICS code(s): 13.020); Air quality in general (ICS 
code(s): 13.040.01)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified  document:  Climate 
Protection Program (CPP) 2024; (4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  Proposed rule - DEQ is conducting a rulemaking to re -establish 
a climate mitigation program in place of recently invalidated rules that established 
Oregon 's Climate Protection Program (CPP). In December 2023, the Oregon Court of 
Appeals determined that DEQ did not fully comply with notice requirements during the 
2021 rulemaking process, thereby invalidating the CPP rules and program.  
The objective of the Cl imate Protection Program 2024 (CPP 2024) rulemaking is to re -
establish an enforceable and declining limit, or cap, on greenhouse gas emissions from 
fossil fuels used throughout Oregon, including diesel, gasoline, natural gas, and propane 
beginning in 2025.  As demonstrated by the Oregon Climate Action Commission's Oregon 
Climate Action Roadmap to 2030 , the CPP was critical to Oregon's objective of deeply 
reducing our state's climate pollution.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of the environment   
8. Relevant documents:   
Climate Protection Program 2024  G/TBT/N/USA/2046/Rev.1  
 
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  https://www.oregon.gov/deq/rulemaking/Pages/CPP2024.aspx  
DEQ will hold three advisory committee m eetings. The public is welcome to attend all 
meetings. Meeting dates and tentative times are below. The first meeting is 2 April 2023. 
Meeting details, including instructions to attend by Zoom will be posted on the CPP 2024 
Rulemaking website . 
Meeting 1: 2 April 2024, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  (Pacific Time )  
• CPP 2024 Rulemaking Brief  
• CPP 2021 Program Overview  
• Oregon Climate Protection Program Rule Language  (Dec. 2023)  
• OHA Health and Climate 2021 -2022 Report  
Meeting 2 – 14 May 2024  
Meeting 3 – 25 June 2024  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  Not Applicable  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone or fax 
numbers  and email and website address es, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/TBT/USA/24_02025_00_e.pdf  
 