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Committee hears progress report on Oregon Water Data Portal pilot; staff say long-term governance and funding needed
Summary
Committee members heard a public hearing on House Bill 3106 and a multi-agency progress report on the Oregon Water Data Portal pilot, which aims to provide a single, interoperable access point for water data now scattered across many systems.
Co-Chair Helm opened a public hearing on House Bill 3106. Riley (staff member) summarized the bill language in the dash-1 amendment: the measure would create an Integrated Water Data Team, an Integrated Water Data Portal, and an Integrated Water Data Account and appropriate funds from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to support the portal.
Jennifer Weigel, water quality administrator at DEQ, led the agency presentation and said the portal effort is a cooperative, multi-agency project to give the public and water managers a single point of access to water-related datasets now scattered across state, local and federal systems. Weigel said the pilot portal has been developed with technical partners and that the project identified more…
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