Section 454.433 – Policy.
It is declared to be the policy of this state: (1) To provide assistance to property owners who will experience extreme financial hardship resulting from payment of assessed costs for the construction of treatment works required by a federal grant agreement or an order issued by a state commission or agency. (2) To provide assistance […]
Section 454.436 – Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund; uses; sources.
(1) There is established the Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund separate and distinct from the General Fund in the State Treasury. The moneys in the Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund are appropriated continuously to the Department of Environmental Quality to be used for the purposes described in ORS 454.439. (2) The Assessment Deferral […]
Section 454.439 – Conditions for program; administrative expenses; priority; report.
(1) The Department of Environmental Quality shall use the moneys in the Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund to provide funds for assessment deferral loan programs administered by public agencies that meet all of the following conditions: (a) The program demonstrates that assessments or charges in lieu of assessments levied against benefited properties for construction […]
Section 454.442 – Application for loan; terms and conditions.
Any public agency desiring funding of its assessment deferral loan program from the Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund may borrow from the Assessment Deferral Loan Program Revolving Fund in accordance with the procedures contained in ORS 454.430 to 454.445 and 468.220. The public agency shall submit an application to the Department of Environmental Quality […]
Section 454.445 – Lien against assessed property; docket; enforcement.
(1) Any public agency that pays all or part of a property owner’s assessment pursuant to the public agency’s adopted assessment deferral loan program shall have a lien against the assessed property for the amount of the public agency’s payment and interest thereon as specified in the public agency’s assessment deferral loan program. (2) The […]
Section 454.505 – Definitions for ORS 454.505 to 454.535.
As used in ORS 454.505 to 454.535, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Construction” means the erection, building, acquisition, alteration, reconstruction, improvement or extension of sewage treatment works, preliminary planning to determine the economic and engineering feasibility of sewage treatment works, the engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal and economic investigations, reports and studies, surveys, designs, plans, […]
Section 454.515 – Grants authorized; criteria considered.
(1) The State of Oregon may make grants, as funds are available, to any municipality to assist the municipality in the construction of sewage treatment works. (2) The Environmental Quality Commission shall be the agency for administration of funds granted by this state pursuant to subsection (1) of this section. (3) In allocating state grants […]
Section 454.525 – Contracts with municipalities; rules.
(1) The Environmental Quality Commission and any municipality may enter into contracts with each other concerning eligible projects. Any such contract may include such provisions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto, and shall include the following provisions: (a) An estimate of the reasonable cost of the eligible project as determined by the […]
Section 454.535 – Sewage Treatment Works Construction Account.
There is established in the General Fund of the State Treasury a Sewage Treatment Works Construction Account. All moneys in the Sewage Treatment Works Construction Account are appropriated continuously for and shall be used by the Environmental Quality Commission in carrying out the purposes of ORS 454.505 to 454.535. [Formerly 449.485]
Section 454.605 – Definitions for ORS 454.605 to 454.755.
As used in ORS 454.605 to 454.755, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Absorption facility” means a system of open-jointed or perforated piping, alternate distribution units or other seepage systems for receiving the flow from septic tanks or other treatment units and designed to distribute effluent for oxidation and absorption by the soil within the […]