Chapter 712 Oregon Laws 2007

 

AN ACT

 

HB 5022

 

Relating to financial administration of the Department of Environmental Quality; 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, 2007, out of the General Fund, the following amounts for the following purposes:

 

        (1)      Air quality.................................   $      9,847,926

        (2)      Water quality............................   $    20,230,054

        (3)      Land quality.............................   $      2,311,702

        (4)      Cross program.........................   $         754,985

        (5)      Debt service..............................   $      4,770,453

 

          SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, 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.................................   $    35,757,699

        (2)      Water quality............................   $    19,319,194

        (3)      Land quality.............................   $    46,485,895

        (4)      Cross program.........................   $      1,220,711

        (5)      Agency management................   $    22,395,732

        (6)      Debt service..............................   $         748,260

 

          SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $5,044,870 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2007, 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, 2007, 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, 2007, as the maximum limits for payment of expenses from federal funds other than those described in section 2 of this 2007 Act collected or received by the Department of Environmental Quality, for the following purposes:

 

        (1)      Air quality.................................   $      6,483,777

        (2)      Water quality............................   $    12,371,100

        (3)      Land quality.............................   $    11,011,061

        (4)      Cross program.........................   $         826,968

 

          SECTION 6. This 2007 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2007 Act takes effect July 1, 2007.

 

Approved by the Governor June 28, 2007

 

Filed in the office of Secretary of State July 2, 2007

 

Effective date July 1, 2007

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