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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 3814
Ordered by the House April 4
Including House Amendments dated April 4
Sponsored by Representative GOMBERG, Senator SMITH DB, Representative DOBSON; Representatives BOICE,
BOSHART DAVIS, HELM, LEVY B, OSBORNE, OWENS, WALLAN, Senators ANDERSON, MEEK, WEBER
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: This Act allows the EQC and DEQ to allow for a mixing zone in a permit for a
seafood processor. (Flesch Readability Score: 72.3).
[Digest: This Act stops the EQC and DEQ from making seafood processors meet standards for
bacteria in waste water from fecal sources. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6).]
[Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality from
requiring seafood processors to meet water quality or purity standards for bacteria in effluent dis-
charges associated with fecal sources.]
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environ-
mental Quality to allow for a mixing zone to meet bacteria water quality criteria in a permit
applicable to a seafood processing facility.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to seafood processors; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. Section 2 of this 2025 Act is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 468B.
SECTION 2.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and except as re-
quired by federal law, the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality may, in a permit applicable to a seafood processing facility for the
discharge of wastewater effluent into the waters of the state, allow a portion of the water
body receiving the wastewater effluent to serve as a mixing zone in order to satisfy the
bacteria water quality criteria for the water body if the department determines that the
mixing zone would not adversely affect public health. The department’s determination must
be based on a review of information that clearly demonstrates that the mixing zone would
not adversely affect public health.
(2) A seafood processing facility subject to a permit described in subsection (1) of this
section shall implement best management practices to prevent the inclusion of bacteria in
wastewater effluent from external fecal sources. Best management practices must be in-
formed by a site-specific investigation of sources of bacteria.
SECTION 3. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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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