Chapter 778 Oregon Laws 2005

AN ACT

HB 5135

Relating to state financial administration; appropriating money; limiting expenditures; and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

SECTION 1. There are appropriated to the Department of Environmental Quality, for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, out of the General Fund, the following amounts for the following purposes:

(1) Air quality............................... $ 3,306,252

(2) Water quality.......................... $ 13,364,309

(3) Land quality............................ $ 1,043,961

(4) Cross media............................. $ 672,716

(5) Debt service............................. $ 4,387,306

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, as the maximum limits for payment of expenses from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, the proceeds of bonds for the Orphan Site Account and federal funds from the Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service for smoke monitoring laboratory services, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds not described in this section, collected or received by the Department of Environmental Quality, for the following purposes:

(1) Air quality............................... $ 35,641,920

(2) Water quality.......................... $ 15,798,192

(3) Land quality............................ $ 41,421,616

(4) Cross media............................. $ 1,561,244

(5) Agency management.............. $ 19,883,593

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $3,719,599 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, as the maximum limit for payment of expenses from lottery moneys allocated from the Parks and Natural Resources Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality for activities and projects to implement section 4 (10), Article XV of the Oregon Constitution.

SECTION 4. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, expenditures by the Department of Environmental Quality for debt service, for loans made from the Pollution Control Fund and for loans made from the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund are not limited.

SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, as the maximum limits for payment of expenses from federal funds other than those described in section 2 of this 2005 Act collected or received by the Department of Environmental Quality, for the following purposes:

(1) Air quality............................... $ 6,478,481

(2) Water quality.......................... $ 14,128,456

(3) Land quality............................ $ 16,764,217

(4) Cross media............................. $ 742,483

SECTION 6. Notwithstanding any other law, neither the Department of Environmental Quality nor the Environmental Quality Commission may expend any moneys for the biennium beginning July 1, 2005, to adopt or enforce rules that impose California auto emission standards on motor vehicles sold, leased or titled in Oregon.

NOTE: The Governor vetoed section 6, which is shown in an overstrike font, as a single item in an appropriation bill. See section 15a, Article V, Oregon Constitution.

SECTION 7. This 2005 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2005 Act takes effect July 1, 2005.

August 29, 2005

Section 6 vetoed as a single item by the Governor

Approved by the Governor (See note after Section 6)

Filed in the office of Secretary of State August 29, 2005

Effective date August 29, 2005

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