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SB1194 • 2025

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.

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.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Senator Robinson, Senator Linthicum
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

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.

Digest: This Act stops the EQC and the DEQ from making waste water treatment plants meet certain criteria.

What This Bill Does

  • 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.
  • Relating to: Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 Senate

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-03-20 Senate

    Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

  3. 2025-03-20 Senate

    Referred to Natural Resources and Wildfire.

Official Summary Text

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.
Relating to: Relating to water quality permits for wastewater treatment facilities.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1194
Sponsored by Senator ROBINSON; Senator LINTHICUM
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: 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 tem-
perature for discharges into surface water.
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.
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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