Oregon legislation · 2025 Legislative Measures
Oregon SB1194: Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.
Status: Failed, June 27, 2025
Digest: This Act stops the EQC and the DEQ from making waste water treatment plants meet certain criteria. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Prohibits the Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality from requiring municipally owned treatment works from meeting certain criteria for pollutants and temperature for discharges into surface water.
What the bill says
A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.
From the introduced text, March 19, 2025:
A BILL FOR AN ACT Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities. 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. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and except as required by federal law, the Environmental Quality Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality may not require, in any permit for the discharge of wastes into surface water from a municipally owned treatment works: (1) That the difference between the temperature of the discharge and the temperature of the surface water where the discharge occurs be greater than five degrees Fahrenheit. (2) That the level of any pollutant other than heat be lower than the average annual level of that pollutant for the surface water where the discharge occurs. matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted. New sections are in boldfaced type. LC 4719
Sponsors
- Noah Robinson (R, 2) · primary sponsor
- Diane Linthicum (R, 28)
Latest actions
- : In committee upon adjournment.
- : Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.
- : Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.
Subjects: Natural Resources and Wildfire
Common questions
- What is SB1194?
- SB1194 is a bill in the Oregon Legislature (2025 Legislative Measures): Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.
- What does SB1194 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR AN ACT Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.
- What is the status of SB1194?
- Failed as of June 27, 2025. Latest action: In committee upon adjournment. (June 27, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB1194?
- Noah Robinson (R, 2), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for SB1194?
- On the Oregon Legislature website: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/1194
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