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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 2813
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of Governor Tina Kotek for
Water Resources Department)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act creates a new fund related to ground water conservation in Harney County.
The Act puts money in the fund.(Flesch Readability Score: 75.3).
Establishes the Harney Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund in the State
Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund.
Appropriates moneys for the Harney Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to water right retirement under the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program; and de-
claring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the General Fund appropriation
made to the Water Resources Department, by _____, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025,
for technical services, is decreased by $500,000.
SECTION 2.(1) There is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the
General Fund, the Harney Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund. Inter-
est earned by the Harney Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Match Fund shall be
credited to the fund.
(2) All moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the Water Resources De-
partment to provide the state contribution for water users located in the Greater Harney
Valley Groundwater Area of Concern who cancel ground water rights as part of enrollment
in the federal Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (16 U.S.C. 3831).
(3) The fund shall consist of all moneys credited to the fund, including moneys appropri-
ated or transferred to the fund by the Legislative Assembly.
SECTION 3.In addition to and not in lieu of any other appropriation, there is appropri-
ated to the Water Resources Department, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the
General Fund, the amount of $500,000, for deposit in the Harney Conservation Reserve En-
hancement Program Match Fund established under section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the limitation on
expenditures established by _____, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum
limit for payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous
Receipts, and including federal funds received under cooperative agreements with or con-
tracts from the Bureau of Reclamation of the United States Department of the Interior, the
United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United States Geological Survey, the Bonneville
Power Administration and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, but excluding lottery
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 408 HB2813
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funds and federal funds not described in this section, collected or received by the Water
Resources Department, for technical services, is increased by $500,000, for authorized
expenditures of moneys deposited in the Harney Conservation Reserve Enhancement Pro-
gram Match Fund established under section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 5. This 2025 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2025 Act takes effect
on its passage.
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