Directs the State Department of Energy to develop and implement a Statewide Geographic Diversity of Fueling Stations for Disaster Reserves Priority Action Plan.

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
A-Engrossed
House Bill 2152
Ordered by the House April 15
Including House Amendments dated April 15
Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee
on Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans for former Senator Michael Dembrow)
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 tells ODOE to create and implement an action plan for fuel storage. (Flesch
Readability Score: 77.8).
Directs the State Department of Energy to develop and implement a Statewide Geographic Di-
versity of Fueling Stations for Disaster Reserves Priority Action Plan.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to statewide fuel storage capacity; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The State Department of Energy, in cooperation with the Department
of Environmental Quality, the Department of Land Conservation and Development and the
Labor Education and Research Center at the University of Oregon, shall develop an action
plan, to be known as the Statewide Geographic Diversity of Fueling Stations for Disaster
Reserves Priority Action Plan.
(2) The action plan shall be based on the 2024 Oregon Energy Security Plan, and any
subsequent updates to the security plan, and include:
(a) Strategies to increase the geographic diversity of liquid fuel storage by region in
Oregon;
(b) Strategies to improve statewide liquid fuel reserves to support response and recovery
activities;
(c) A prioritized list of locations for expanding storage capacity at existing fuel storage
sites or developing fuel storage capacity at sites where there is not currently fuel storage;
(d) Strategies and policies to maintain a skilled and trained fuel storage emergency re-
sponse, operation, maintenance and construction workforce, including strategies and policies
for worker training, worker health and safety, living or prevailing wages and family health
and retirement benefits;
(e) A workforce transition plan for fuel storage workers that includes strategies and
policies for worker and family protection, promoting family wage jobs and worker benefits,
worker retraining, wage supplements and retirement benefits; and
(f) Formal consultation with federally recognized Indian tribes when selecting new or
expanded disaster fuel storage.
(3) The action plan must take into account:
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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(a) Any negative impacts on the environmental health of communities in areas identified
for new or expanded fuel storage capacity, including, but not limited to, any negative effects
on federally recognized Indian tribes;
(b) The potential for reliance on fossil fuels to decline and the impact on the action plan
resulting from that decline; and
(c) The impacts of declining reliance on fossil fuels on workers.
(4) Upon completion of the action plan, the State Department of Energy may, subject to
available funding, take any actions within the authority of the department necessary to im-
plement the action plan.
(5) The department shall review and update the action plan no less than once every five
years.
SECTION 2.
The State Department of Energy shall submit the action plan developed un-
der section 1 of this 2025 Act in a report to the interim committees of the Legislative As-
sembly related to energy, in the manner provided under ORS 192.245, no later than
September 15, 2026. The report may include recommendations for legislation necessary to
implement the action plan.
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.
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