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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3246
Ordered by the House April 1
Including House Amendments dated April 1
Sponsored by Representatives HELM, ANDERSEN, EVANS, LEVY B, SMITH G; Representatives BOICE, DIEHL,
DOBSON, ELMER, GAMBA, GOMBERG, HARTMAN, LIVELY, MANNIX, MCLAIN, NERON, OWENS, PHAM
H, RESCHKE, WATANABE, WRIGHT
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. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability standards.
Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial
symbiosis, which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm.
The Act would require a report on the plan to be turned in next year. The Act would ap-
propriate funds to be used for technical aid for up to six symbiosis pilot programs. The Act
would let certain county service districts fund water resource services with charges for
services, works or commodities. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1).
[Digest: The Act would have Business Oregon develop a plan to promote industrial symbiosis,
which is defined to mean the use of the resources of one firm by a second firm. The Act would have
the agency submit a report on the plan next year. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4).]
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to develop a roadmap for the purpose of
promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon. Requires the department to sub-
mit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic de-
velopment not later than September 15, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business
Development Department to fund technical assistance for up to six industrial symbiosis pilot
communities in Oregon. Authorizes certain county service districts to fund water resource
management services with charges for district services, facilities or commodities.
[Sunsets on January 2, 2028.]
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to circular economy; creating new provisions; amending ORS 451.490; and declaring an
emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) As used in this section and section 2 of this 2025 Act, “industrial
symbiosis” means voluntary collaboration among businesses or organizations to exchange
materials, energy, water and by-products in order to optimize resource use, reduce waste and
enhance economic and environmental outcomes.
(2) The Oregon Business Development Department shall develop an Industrial Symbiosis
Roadmap for the purpose of promoting voluntary industrial symbiosis activities in Oregon
by:
(a) Identifying and describing voluntary industrial symbiosis opportunities;
(b) Studying best practices and technologies;
(c) Analyzing barriers to adoption; and
(d) Recommending key performance indicators to measure progress on achieving indus-
trial symbiosis goals.
(3) Oregon’s industrial symbiosis goals include, but are not limited to:
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.
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(a) Supporting and coordinating existing industrial symbiosis efforts;
(b) Facilitating new voluntary industrial symbiosis opportunities;
(c) Turning waste and by-products into valued resource inputs;
(d) Reducing waste management costs;
(e) Generating new business opportunities;
(f) Increasing family wage job opportunities;
(g) Improving environmental performance; and
(h) Driving business innovation.
(4) Not later than September 15, 2026, the department shall submit a report on the
roadmap to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to economic devel-
opment in the manner provided in ORS 192.245. The report may include recommendations for
legislation.
SECTION 2. (1) The Oregon Business Development Department shall select up to six in-
dustrial symbiosis pilot communities in Oregon to receive technical assistance to:
(a) Facilitate, plan, and design industrial symbiosis projects; and
(b) Convene community meetings, identify infrastructure opportunities and develop rec-
ommendations and next steps for future industrial symbiosis projects.
(2) To the extent practicable, the department should select industrial symbiosis pilot
communities to reflect geographic and industrial diversity, with at least one pilot commu-
nity:
(a) Located east of the Cascade Range;
(b) Located west of the Cascade Range;
(c) Within the food processing industry; and
(d) That relates to municipal wastewater.
(3) As soon as practicable, and in no event later than December 31, 2025, the department
shall, through an open and competitive bidding process, select an organization or service
provider with expertise and documented experience in industrial symbiosis planning to pro-
vide the technical assistance described in subsection (1) of this section to all the industrial
symbiosis pilot communities selected under this section.
(4) As soon as practicable, and in no event later than July 1, 2026, the department shall
select the industrial symbiosis pilot communities.
SECTION 3. There is appropriated to the Oregon Business Development Department, for
the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $1,300,000 for
the purpose of providing technical assistance to industrial symbiosis pilot communities in
accordance with section 2 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 4. Sections 1 and 2 of this 2025 Act are repealed on January 2, 2028.
SECTION 5. ORS 451.490 is amended to read:
451.490. The district may, in accordance with the order adopted under ORS 451.485, finance the
construction, operation or maintenance of service facilities for a district by:
(1) Use of funds from a fund established under ORS 280.055 or 451.540 to be repaid by the dis-
trict without interest.
(2) Assessments against the property in the district with or without issuance of bonds authorized
under ORS 223.205, 223.210 to 223.295 and 223.770.
(3) Service or user charges in the district.
(4) Connection charges.
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(5) District ad valorem taxes.
(6) Sale of bonds.
(7) Funds obtained under ORS 280.040, 280.050, 280.060, 280.070, 280.080 and 280.090. A district
local option tax adopted under ORS 280.060 shall not authorize a tax in any fiscal year later than
the fiscal year in which the district is subject to dissolution under ORS 451.620 (1) and (2).
(8) For districts providing services authorized under ORS 451.010 (1)(a) or (5), funds ob-
tained through charges imposed for district services, facilities or commodities.
[(8)] (9) Any combination of the provisions of subsections (1) to [(7)] (8) of this section.
SECTION 6. 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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