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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3353
Sponsored by Representative BOICE, Senator SMITH DB
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 tells agencies to study how wildfire affects water quality. The Act tells the
agencies to report on the study.(Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Environmental Quality
to study the impacts of wildfire on water quality of streams and tributaries. Directs the departments
to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to water not later
than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the impacts of wildfire on water quality.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Department of Environ-
mental Quality shall jointly study the impacts of wildfire on the water quality of streams and
tributaries, in consultation with any other relevant state agencies.
(2) At minimum, the study must assess how the first rains after a wildfire affect the
water quality, and whether levels of turbidity and sediment change after a wildfire, paying
particular attention to the potential infilling of colder, deeper salmonid habitat pools and to
any subsequent effects on spawning gravel and beds from changes in fine sediment deposits
and coverage.
(3) The departments shall jointly submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245,
and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the Legisla-
tive Assembly related to water no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
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 4036