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OR SB1194

Bill

Status

Failed

6/27/2025

Primary Sponsor

Noah Robinson

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Origin

Senate

2025 Legislative Measures

AI Summary

  • Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) and Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) from imposing certain discharge requirements on municipally owned wastewater treatment plants, except where required by federal law

  • Bars state regulators from requiring that discharge temperature differ from receiving surface water temperature by more than five degrees Fahrenheit

  • Prevents requirements that pollutant levels (other than heat) in discharges be lower than the average annual pollutant level already present in the receiving surface water

  • Adds new provisions to ORS chapter 468B governing water pollution control

Legislative Description

Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.

Last Action

In committee upon adjournment.

6/27/2025

Committee Referrals

Natural Resources and Wildfire3/20/2025

Full Bill Text

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