OR HB4086

Oregon Business Development Department must develop an Industrial Symbiosis Roadmap to promote voluntary collaboration among businesses to exchange materials, energy, water, and by-products, with a report due to the legislature by May 1, 2027

Four pilot communities (COR Healthy Communities, Clatsop County, Klamath County, and Port of Morrow) will receive technical assistance for industrial symbiosis projects, including engineering and cost feasibility studies for priority capital projects, with $900,000 appropriated for this purpose

$640,000 appropriated to the Oregon Coast Visitors Association to replicate Iceland's "100% Fish Project" for utilizing fish in food and nonfood product manufacturing

County service districts providing sewage and water management services may now finance facilities using charges collected for those services

Employment requirements for financial aid at regionally significant industrial sites changed from individual employer job increases to cumulative site-wide employment thresholds (25 jobs for rural sites, 50 jobs for urban sites)