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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 5520
Printed pursuant to Senate Interim Rule 213.28 by order of the President of the Senate in conformance with pre-
session filing rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part of the President (at the request
of Oregon Department of Administrative Services)
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 creates an agency budget. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.8).
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality for
certain biennial expenses.
Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Re-
ceipts, specified bond proceeds and specified federal funds, but excluding lottery funds and other
federal funds, collected or received by the department.
Limits biennial expenditures from lottery moneys allocated from the Parks and Natural Re-
sources Fund to the department.
Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures.
Limits certain biennial expenditures by the department from federal funds.
Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the financial administration of the Department of Environmental Quality; and declaring
an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. There are appropriated to the Department of Environmental Quality, for the
biennium beginning July 1, 2025, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, for the
followingpurposes:
(1)Airquality................................. $25,519,187
(2)Waterquality............................ $47,369,398
(3)Landquality.............................. $2,943,780
(4)Agencymanagement................. $2,296,337
(5)Debtservice.............................. $6,510,984
SECTION 2.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, the
proceeds of bonds for the Orphan Site Account and federal funds from congestion mitigation
and air quality grants, drinking water protection, laboratory accreditation and woodstove
grants and for smoke monitoring laboratory services, but excluding lottery funds and federal
funds not described in this section, collected or received by the Department of Environ-
mental Quality, for the following purposes:
(1)Air quality.................................$128,065,455
(2)Water quality............................$40,371,573
(3)Land quality..............................$133,840,318
(4)Agency management .................$56,596,968
Note: For budget, see 2025-2027 Biennial Budget
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 9520 SB5520
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(5)Bond related costs....................$ 333,333
SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of
$7,027,034 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limit for
payment of expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Parks and Natural Resources
Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality for activities and projects to implement
Article XV, section 4 (8), of the Oregon Constitution.
SECTION 4.For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, the following expenditures by the
Department of Environmental Quality are not limited:
(1) Expenditures for debt service and debt service administrative costs related to the
Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and the Pollution Control Fund; and
(2) Expenditures made for loans from the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and
loans from the Pollution Control Fund.
SECTION 5.Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts
are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, as the maximum limits for payment
of expenses from federal funds other than those described in section 2 of this 2025 Act, col-
lected or received by the Department of Environmental Quality, for the following purposes:
(1)Air quality.................................$14,332,814
(2)Water quality............................$19,077,650
(3)Land quality..............................$9,822,534
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
July 1, 2025.
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