Section 454.745 – Permit, service, report, variance and license fees; refund; waiver.
(1) In conjunction with the rules adopted under ORS 454.615 and 454.625, the Environmental Quality Commission shall establish a schedule of application fees for services rendered, permits, reports, variances and licenses and for the registration of sewage disposal service license holders and workers. The fees shall be based upon actual costs for efficiently conducted minimum […]
Section 454.635 – Notice of violation; service; request for hearing; conduct of hearing; order.
(1) Whenever the Department of Environmental Quality has reasonable grounds for believing that any subsurface sewage disposal system, alternative sewage disposal system or nonwater-carried sewage disposal facility or part thereof is being operated or maintained in violation of any rule adopted pursuant to ORS 454.625, it shall give written notice to the person or persons […]
Section 454.755 – Fees for certain reports on sewage disposal.
(1) Any person, upon application for any of the following actions by the Department of Environmental Quality, shall pay to the department a fee in the amount required for each lot or parcel: (a) A report of evaluation of site suitability for a subsurface sewage disposal system, alternative sewage disposal system, nonwater-carried sewage disposal facility […]
Section 454.640 – Contract agent enforcement of standards.
In order to protect the health, safety and welfare of its citizens, a contract agent may enforce, consistent with state enforcement, standards for subsurface sewage disposal systems, alternative sewage disposal systems and nonwater-carried sewage disposal facilities established in ORS 454.605 to 454.755 or in rules of the Environmental Quality Commission. [1981 c.147 §2; 1999 c.551 […]
Section 454.645 – Enforcement when health hazard exists.
(1) Whenever a subsurface sewage disposal system, alternative sewage disposal system or a nonwater-carried sewage disposal facility or part thereof presents or threatens to present a public health hazard creating an emergency requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety and welfare, the Department of Environmental Quality may institute an action. The action may […]
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 454.657 – 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, […]