ORS 468.220
Department to administer fund

  • uses
  • legislative approval of grants
  • administrative assessment

(1)

The Department of Environmental Quality is the agency for the State of Oregon for the administration of the Pollution Control Fund. The department is authorized to use the Pollution Control Fund for one or more of the following purposes:

(a)

To grant funds not to exceed 30 percent of total project costs for eligible projects as defined in ORS 454.505 (Definitions for ORS 454.505 to 454.535) or sewerage systems as defined in ORS 468B.005 (Definitions for water pollution control laws).

(b)

To acquire, by purchase, or otherwise, general obligation bonds or other obligations of any municipal corporation, city, county, or agency of the State of Oregon, or combinations thereof, issued or made for the purpose of paragraph (a) of this subsection in an amount not to exceed 100 percent of the total project costs for eligible projects.

(c)

To acquire, by purchase, or otherwise, other obligations of any city that are authorized by its charter in an amount not to exceed 100 percent of the total project costs for eligible projects.

(d)

To grant funds not to exceed 30 percent of the total project costs for facilities for the disposal of solid waste, including without being limited to, transfer and resource recovery facilities.

(e)

To make loans or grants to any municipal corporation, city, county, or agency of the State of Oregon, or combinations thereof, for planning of eligible projects as defined in ORS 454.505 (Definitions for ORS 454.505 to 454.535), sewerage systems as defined by ORS 468B.005 (Definitions for water pollution control laws) or facilities for the disposal of solid waste, including without being limited to, transfer and resource recovery facilities. Grants made under this paragraph shall be considered a part of any grant authorized by paragraph (a) or (d) of this subsection if the project is approved.

(f)

To acquire, by purchase, or otherwise, general obligation bonds or other obligations of any municipal corporation, city, county, or agency of the State of Oregon, or combinations thereof, issued or made for the purpose of paragraph (d) of this subsection in an amount not to exceed 100 percent of the total project costs.

(g)

To advance funds by contract, loan or otherwise, to any municipal corporation, city, county or agency of the State of Oregon, or combination thereof, for the purpose of paragraphs (a) and (d) of this subsection in an amount not to exceed 100 percent of the total project costs.

(h)

To pay compensation required by law to be paid by the state for the acquisition of real property for the disposal by storage of environmentally hazardous wastes.

(i)

To dispose of environmentally hazardous wastes by the Department of Environmental Quality whenever the department finds that an emergency exists requiring such disposal.

(j)

To acquire for the state real property and facilities for the disposal by landfill, storage or otherwise of solid waste, including but not limited to, transfer and resource recovery facilities.

(k)

To acquire for the state real property and facilities for the disposal by incineration or otherwise of hazardous waste or PCB.

(L)

To provide funding for the Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund established in ORS 454.436 (Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund).

(m)

To provide funding for the Orphan Site Account established in ORS 465.381 (Hazardous Substance Remedial Action Fund) but only to the extent that the department reasonably estimates that debt service from bonds issued to finance such facilities or activities shall be fully paid from fees collected pursuant to ORS 453.402 (Fees) (2)(c), under ORS 459.236 (Additional permit fees for remedial action or removal) and under ORS 465.101 (Definitions for ORS 465.101 to 465.131) to 465.131 (Fee imposed by ORS 465.104 in addition to fees established by local government) for the purpose of providing funds for the Orphan Site Account and other available funds, but not from repayments of financial assistance under ORS 465.265 (“Person” defined for ORS 465.265 to 465.310) to 465.310 (Accounting procedure for financial assistance moneys) or from moneys recovered from responsible parties.

(n)

To advance funds by contract, loan or otherwise, to any municipal corporation, city, county or agency of this state, or combination thereof, for facilities or activities related to removal or remedial action of hazardous substances.

(o)

To provide funding for the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund established under ORS 468.427 (Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund), either as a grant or an advance. If the funding provided is an advance, the department shall establish the program described in ORS 468.433 (Duties of department) (2) to pay the bonds that funded the advance.

(p)

To fund loans to or buy debt obligations of a public agency, as defined in ORS 468.423 (Definitions for ORS 468.423 to 468.440), that finance the costs of treatment works, as defined in ORS 468.423 (Definitions for ORS 468.423 to 468.440), which are funded in part through the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.

(q)

To provide funding for remedial actions related to contaminated sediment found in the submerged and submersible lands, as those terms are defined in ORS 274.005 (Definitions), within the Willamette River between Swan Island and the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and associated remedial actions. The funding provided under this paragraph may be used for remedial action costs, as defined in ORS 465.200 (Definitions for ORS 465.200 to 465.545).

(2)

The facilities referred to in subsection (1)(a) to (c) of this section shall be only such as conservatively appear to the department to be not less than 70 percent self-supporting and self-liquidating from revenues, gifts, grants from the federal government, user charges, assessments and other fees.

(3)

The facilities referred to subsection (1)(d), (f) and (g) of this section shall be only such as conservatively appear to the department to be not less than 70 percent self-supporting and self-liquidating from revenues, gifts, grants from the federal government, user charges, assessments and other fees.

(4)

The real property and facilities that receive funding under subsection (1)(j), (k), (o) and (p) of this section shall be only such as conservatively appear to the department to be not less than 70 percent self-supporting and self-liquidating from revenues, gifts, grants from the federal government, user charges, assessments and other fees.

(5)

The department may sell or pledge any bonds, notes or other obligations acquired under subsection (1)(b) of this section.

(6)

Before making a loan or grant to or acquiring general obligation bonds or other obligations of a municipal corporation, city, county or agency for facilities for the disposal of solid waste or planning for such facilities, the department shall require the applicant to demonstrate that it has adopted a solid waste management plan that has been approved by the department. The plan must include a waste reduction program.

(7)

Any grant authorized by this section shall be made only with the prior review of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means during the legislative sessions or the Emergency Board or the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means during the interim period between sessions.

(8)

The department may assess those entities to whom grants and loans are made under this section to recover expenses incurred in administering this section. [Formerly 449.685; 1977 c.95 §8; 1977 c.704 §9; 1979 c.773 §9; 1981 c.312 §2; 1985 c.670 §42; 1987 c.695 §10; 1989 c.833 §§114,170; 1991 c.863 §37; 1993 c.18 §121; 1993 c.411 §§3,4; 1995 c.79 §276; 2003 c.696 §2; 2012 c.107 §16]

Source: Section 468.220 — Department to administer fund; uses; legislative approval of grants; administrative assessment, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors468.­html.

See also annotations under ORS 449.685 in permanent edition.

Attorney General Opinions

Commission authority to loan planning funds to metropolitan service district, (1972) Vol 35, p 1117; use of funds for research necessary and prior to planning, (1972) Vol 36, p 86; authority of the EQC to grant pollution control funds for preliminary research planning and acquisition of real estate for solid waste disposal facilities, (1972) Vol 36, p 242

468.005
Definitions
468.010
Environmental Quality Commission
468.015
Functions of commission
468.020
Rules and standards
468.030
Department of Environmental Quality
468.035
Functions of department
468.040
Director
468.045
Functions of director
468.050
Deputy director
468.052
Payment by credit card
468.053
Surcharge on fee or invoice
468.054
Environmental Data Management System Fund
468.055
Contracts with Oregon Health Authority
468.060
Enforcement of rules by local health authorities
468.062
Authority of Department of Environmental Quality to require fingerprints
468.065
Issuance of permits
468.066
History of compliance with environmental quality laws
468.067
Organizational standing to seek judicial review of final order in Title V permit proceeding
468.070
Denial, modification, suspension or revocation of permits
468.073
Expedited or enhanced regulatory process
468.075
Revolving fund
468.076
Definitions for ORS 468.076 to 468.089
468.078
Action for pollution originating in Oregon
468.079
Action for pollution originating in reciprocating jurisdiction
468.080
Applicability of Oregon law
468.081
Rights of injured person
468.083
Right conferred under ORS 468.076 to 468.087 in addition to other rights
468.085
Sovereign immunity defense
468.087
Application and construction of ORS 468.076 to 468.087
468.089
Short title
468.090
Complaint procedure
468.095
Investigatory authority
468.100
Enforcement procedures
468.110
Appeal
468.115
Enforcement in cases of emergency
468.120
Public hearings
468.126
Advance notice
468.130
Schedule of civil penalties
468.135
Imposition of civil penalties
468.140
Civil penalties for specified violations
468.148
Legislative findings and declarations
468.149
Assessment of final changes to federal environmental law
468.150
Field sanitation and straw utilization and disposal methods as “pollution control facilities.”
468.153
Legislative findings and declarations
468.155
Definitions for ORS 468.155 to 468.190
468.160
Policy
468.163
Commencement of construction or installation of facility
468.165
Application for certification of pollution control facilities
468.167
Application for precertification
468.170
Action on application
468.172
“Environmental management system” defined
468.173
Applicable percentage of certified cost of facility eligible for tax credit
468.180
Conditions for issuance of certificate under ORS 468.170
468.183
Revocation of certification for loss of Green Permit
468.185
Procedure to revoke certification
468.190
Allocation of costs to pollution control
468.195
Issuance of bonds authorized
468.215
Pollution Control Fund
468.220
Department to administer fund
468.225
Investment of gross proceeds of agency bonds or other obligations
468.230
Pollution Control Sinking Fund
468.240
Remedy where default occurs on payment to state
468.245
Acceptance of federal funds
468.250
Participation in matching fund programs with federal government
468.253
Authority of director to act to benefit fund
468.255
Limit on grants and loans
468.260
Return of unexpended funds to state required
468.263
Definitions for ORS 468.263 to 468.272
468.264
Policy
468.265
Powers of county over pollution control facilities
468.266
Issuance of bonds
468.267
Security for bonds
468.268
Enforcement of bond obligation
468.269
Trustees
468.270
Tax status of leasehold interest in facilities
468.271
Effect on procedure of awarding contracts
468.272
Application of other laws relating to bonds
468.423
Definitions for ORS 468.423 to 468.440
468.425
Policy
468.427
Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund
468.428
Lottery bonds
468.429
Uses of revolving fund
468.431
Water Pollution Control Administration Fund
468.433
Duties of department
468.437
Loan applications
468.439
Borrowing authority of public agency
468.440
Loan terms and interest rates
468.442
Definitions
468.444
Zero-emission and electric vehicle rebate program
468.446
Charge Ahead Oregon Program
468.448
Audits
468.449
Zero-Emission Incentive Fund
468.501
Definitions for ORS 468.501 to 468.521
468.503
Purpose of Green Permits
468.506
Commission rulemaking to carry out Green Permit program
468.508
Eligibility for Green Permit
468.511
Environmental laws not applicable to facility operating under Green Permit
468.513
Judicial review of agency decision on issuance of Green Permit
468.516
Termination of Green Permit
468.518
Application for permit or approval affected by termination of Green Permit
468.521
Recovery of costs of agency in developing, negotiating and publicizing Green Permit
468.531
Legislative findings
468.533
Willamette River Cleanup Authority
468.581
Definitions for ORS 468.581 to 468.587
468.583
Policy
468.585
Legislative findings
468.587
State agencies and ecosystem services
468.920
Definitions for ORS 468.922 to 468.956
468.922
Unlawful disposal, storage or treatment of hazardous waste in the second degree
468.924
Applicability of ORS 161.655
468.926
Unlawful disposal, storage or treatment of hazardous waste in the first degree
468.929
Unlawful transport of hazardous waste in the second degree
468.931
Unlawful transport of hazardous waste in the first degree
468.933
Determination of number of punishable offenses under ORS 468.922, 468.926, 468.929 and 468.931
468.936
Unlawful air pollution in the second degree
468.939
Unlawful air pollution in the first degree
468.941
Determination of number of punishable offenses under ORS 468.936 and 468.939
468.943
Unlawful water pollution in the second degree
468.946
Unlawful water pollution in the first degree
468.948
Unlawful motorized in-stream placer mining
468.949
Determination of number of punishable offenses under ORS 468.943 and 468.946
468.951
Environmental endangerment
468.953
Supplying false information to agency
468.956
Refusal to produce material subpoenaed by commission
468.959
Upset or bypass as affirmative defense
468.961
Approval of Attorney General or district attorney before bringing felony charge
468.962
Notice to Department of Revenue of environmental felony
468.963
Environmental audit privilege
468.996
Civil penalty for intentional or reckless violation
468.997
Joinder of certain offenses
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