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Oregon updates groundwater response framework with green/yellow/red system to tackle contamination
Summary
The Senate passed SB 1154 B, establishing a tiered (green/yellow/red) response framework for groundwater contamination, granting the Environmental Quality Commission new tools for coordination and voluntary remediation plans, and beefening state planning authority for serious contamination events.
The Oregon Senate on Tuesday passed Senate Bill 1154 B, a bill that modernizes the state's groundwater management approach by creating a tiered response system intended to improve prevention, coordination and, when necessary, regulatory action for contaminated groundwater.
Senator Taylor, the bill sponsor, told the Senate that the measure updates a framework originally set under the Groundwater Quality Protection Act of 1989 and establishes a green/yellow/red system. Under the bill the Environmental Quality Commission (EQC) may declare a "groundwater quality concern area" (yellow light) to convene agencies and affected communities to…
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