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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
B-Engrossed
House Bill 3814
Ordered by the Senate April 29
Including House Amendments dated April 4 and Senate Amendments
dated April 29
Sponsored by Representative GOMBERG, Senator SMITH DB, Representatives DOBSON, JAVADI; 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).
Authorizes the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Qual-
ity 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 unless prohib-
ited by federal law, the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environ-
mental 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 re-
ceiving 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.
LC 4181