71st OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2001 Regular Session
 
NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within
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LC 519
 
                         Senate Bill 99
 
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  President of the Senate in conformance with presession filing
  rules, indicating neither advocacy nor opposition on the part
  of the President (at the request of Joint Interim Judiciary
  Committee)
 
 
                             SUMMARY
 
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.
 
  Requires water supplier serving more than 10,000 people to
fluoridate water supply. Allows certain water suppliers to
receive state financial assistance for fluoridation.
  Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Health Division for
reimbursing water suppliers for initial costs of fluoridation.
 
                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to fluoridation of water supplies; creating new
  provisions; amending ORS 448.131 and 448.175; and appropriating
  money.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 448.131 is amended to read:
  448.131. (1) The Health Division shall adopt water quality
standards that are necessary to protect the public health through
insuring safe drinking water within a water system.
  (2) In order to insure safe  { + and healthy + } drinking
water, the division shall prescribe:
  (a) Construction standards governing the performance of a water
system insofar as they relate to the safety of drinking water.
  (b) Standards for the operation of water systems in so far as
they relate to the delivery of safe drinking water.
  (c) Other standards and requirements { + , including but not
limited to standards for the addition of fluoride to drinking
water, + } considered necessary by the division to insure
safe { +  and healthy + } drinking water.
  (3) The division shall require that construction and
installation plans be submitted and approved before construction
begins on new systems or substantial improvements are made to old
systems. The division may adopt rules exempting certain water
systems from the plan review process.
  (4) The division may impose and collect a fee from a water
supplier for reviewing construction and installation plans.
  (5) Nothing in this section authorizes the division to require
alterations of existing facilities unless alterations are
necessary to insure safe drinking water.
  SECTION 2. ORS 448.175 is amended to read:
 
  448.175. Subject to ORS 183.310 to 183.550, the  { + Health + }
Division:
  (1) Shall require that the water suppliers give public notice
of violations in the water system.
  (2) May refuse to allow expansion of or additional connections
to a water system until the water system meets water quality
standards and requirements.
  (3) May enter an order requiring a water supplier to acquire or
construct a water system that provides water meeting division
standards. When the order requires a city to acquire a water
system, the system must have the majority of its facilities
within the city's adopted urban growth boundary. When the order
is entered upon a city, the procedure described in ORS 454.235 to
454.255 shall be followed.
  (4) May enter an order requiring a water supplier that fails to
comply with the schedule prescribed under ORS 448.140 to cease
operation of the water system.
   { +  (5) Shall require that water suppliers serving more than
10,000 persons add fluoride to the water it supplies for human
consumption in an amount and manner prescribed by the
division. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + From moneys made available for the purpose,
water suppliers not fluoridating water on or before the effective
date of this 2001 Act, but required to fluoridate water under ORS
448.175, may seek reimbursement from the Health Division for the
costs of the initial acquisition of fluoridation equipment, the
costs of installing that equipment and the costs of materials and
chemicals required for fluoridating the water supply of the water
supplier for a period of not more than ___ months. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + There is appropriated to the Health Division,
for the biennium ending June 30, 2003, out of the General Fund,
the amount of $______ for the purpose of carrying out section 3
of this 2001 Act. + }
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