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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 577
Sponsored by Senator FREDERICK (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: Makes a power provider recoup the costs to store the waste made from making electric
power. (Flesch Readability Score:63.6).
Requires an electric utility to recover costs for storing the waste produced by an energy facility
in generating electricity.Requires a person who develops an energy facility to disclose the costs
of storing the waste produced by the energy facility in generating electricity.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to energy generation; 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 757.
SECTION 2.(1) As used in this section, “electric utility” means a public utility, a people’s
utility district organized under ORS chapter 261, a municipal utility operating under ORS
chapter 225 or a cooperative organized under ORS chapter 62 that provides or delivers elec-
tricity service.
(2) The Public Utility Commission, for an electric utility that is a public utility, or the
governing body, for an electric utility that is a people’s utility district, municipal utility or
cooperative, shall require the recovery of costs in the rates of the electric utility for storing
the waste produced by an energy facility in generating electricity that is sold by the electric
utility.
(3) Prior to developing the energy facility, a person who seeks to develop an energy fa-
cility to generate electricity that is to be sold by an electric utility shall disclose to the
electric utility and the public the costs of storing the waste that will be produced by the
energy facility in generating electricity.
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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