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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 355
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
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 an agency to create a pilot grant program to promote the use of air cur-
tains to manage wildfire risk. The Act gives money for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 78.3).
Directs the State Forestry Department to establish a pilot grant program to manage wildfire
risk by promoting the use of air curtains by persons that make biochar.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the department for funding the grant program.
Sunsets the grant program on June 30, 2027.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to air curtains; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. (1) The State Forestry Department shall establish by rule a pilot grant pro-
gram for the purpose of managing wildfire risk by promoting the use of air curtains by per-
sons that make biochar.
(2) In administering the program, the department:
(a) Shall develop criteria for receiving a grant and a process for applying for a grant; and
(b) May require a recipient of a grant to report to the department on the use of the grant
funds.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated to the State Forestry Department, for the biennium
beginning on July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the amount of $1,000,000 for the purpose
of funding the grant program described in section 1 of this 2025 Act.
SECTION 3.Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on June 30, 2027.
SECTION 4.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.
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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