Section 454.655 – Permit required for construction; application; time limit; special application procedure for septic tank installation on parcel of 10 acres or more.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 454.675, without first obtaining a permit from the Department of Environmental Quality, no person shall construct or install a subsurface sewage disposal system, alternative sewage disposal system or part thereof. However, a person may undertake emergency repairs limited to replacing minor broken components of the system without first […]
Section 454.782 – Definitions for ORS 454.782 to 454.800.
As used in ORS 454.782 to 454.800: (1) “Commission” means the Environmental Quality Commission. (2) “Department” means the Department of Environmental Quality. (3) “Septage” means the domestic liquid and solid sewage pumped from septic tanks, cesspools, holding tanks, vault toilets, chemical toilets or other similar domestic sewage treatment components or systems and other sewage sludge […]
Section 454.657 – Variance from subsurface sewage disposal system rules or standards; conditions; hearing.
(1) After hearing the Environmental Quality Commission may grant to applicants for permits required under ORS 454.655 specific variances from the particular requirements of any rule or standard pertaining to subsurface sewage disposal systems for such period of time and upon such conditions as it may consider necessary to protect the public health and welfare […]
Section 454.660 – Delegation of variance powers; appeal; qualification of officers; hearing and decision.
(1) The Environmental Quality Commission shall delegate on such general conditions as it may find appropriate the power to grant variances to special variance officers appointed by the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. Decisions of the variance officers to grant variances may be appealed to the Environmental Quality Commission. (2) Variance officers appointed […]
Section 454.662 – Variance fee; low income elderly exemption.
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, each application for a variance submitted pursuant to ORS 454.657 must be accompanied by a fee, the amount of which shall be determined by a fee structure adopted by the Environmental Quality Commission as described in ORS 454.745. The moneys received are continuously appropriated to […]
Section 454.665 – Inspection of completed construction; certificate of satisfactory completion; appeal from denial or revocation of certificate.
(1) Upon completing the construction for which a permit has been issued under ORS 454.655, the permit holder shall notify the Department of Environmental Quality. The department may at its own election inspect the construction to determine if it complies with the rules of the Environmental Quality Commission. For that construction inspected by the department, […]
Section 454.675 – Exemptions; application to alterations or repairs.
Subsurface sewage disposal systems, alternative sewage disposal systems or nonwater-carried sewage disposal facilities or parts thereof which were constructed prior to January 1, 1974, but which are not creating a public health hazard or causing water pollution shall not be required to conform to the construction standards adopted subsequent to their initial construction. However, all […]
Section 454.685 – Order limiting or prohibiting construction of sewage disposal systems; factors to be considered.
(1) Whenever the Environmental Quality Commission finds that the construction of subsurface sewage disposal systems, alternative sewage disposal systems or nonwater-carried sewage disposal facilities should be limited or prohibited in an area, it shall issue an order limiting or prohibiting such construction. The order shall be issued only after public hearing for which more than […]
Section 454.695 – License required to perform sewage disposal services; application; rules.
(1) No person shall perform sewage disposal services or advertise or purport to be in the business of performing such services without first obtaining a license from the Department of Environmental Quality. (2) Application for a license required by subsection (1) of this section shall be made in writing in a form prescribed by the […]
Section 454.705 – Bond; content; action on bond; notice of bond.
(1) An applicant for a license required by ORS 454.695 shall execute a bond in favor of the State of Oregon. The bond shall be in the amount established by rule by the Environmental Quality Commission and shall be executed by the applicant as principal and by a surety company authorized to transact a surety […]