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Senate clears bill expanding allowed exempt water uses for small growers
Summary
House Bill 33-72 clarifies and expands the scope of exempt water uses, permitting small-scale commercial gardening (e.g., half-acre growers) to irrigate within set limits and resolving an anomaly that had excluded sales of vegetables at farmers markets.
SALEM, Ore. — The Senate on Tuesday passed House Bill 33-72, a measure that clarifies exempt uses of water and sets quantitative limits to allow small-scale growers to irrigate for limited commercial production without additional permitting.
Sen. Brzezinski, sponsor of the bill in the Senate, said the measure "start[s] setting some limits as to how much water can be…
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