Chapter 648 Oregon Laws 2009

AN ACT

SB 5521

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, 2009, out of the General Fund, the following amounts for the following purposes:

(1)    Air quality...............................   $       7,931,303

      (2)    Water quality..........................   $     19,794,969

      (3)    Land quality............................   $       1,048,787

      (4)    Cross program........................   $          680,845

      (5)    Debt service.............................   $       4,592,353

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, 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 congestion mitigation and air quality grants, for drinking water protection, beach bacteria monitoring, laboratory accreditation and the Tillamook Estuary Partnership and 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...............................   $     39,357,163

      (2)    Water quality..........................   $     21,725,305

      (3)    Land quality............................   $     56,711,404

      (4)    Cross program........................   $          168,375

      (5)    Agency management..............   $     22,581,133

      (6)    Debt service.............................   $       1,197,600

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $5,556,344 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, 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, 2009, the following expenditures by the Department of Environmental Quality are not limited:

          (1) Expenditures for debt service and debt service administrative costs related to the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and the Pollution Control Fund; and

          (2) Expenditures made for loans made from the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund and loans from the Pollution Control Fund.

SECTION 5. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, as the maximum limits for payment of expenses from federal funds other than those described in section 2 of this 2009 Act collected or received by the Department of Environmental Quality, for the following purposes:

(1)    Air quality...............................   $       7,579,700

      (2)    Water quality..........................   $     12,262,273

      (3)    Land quality............................   $     15,685,677

      (4)    Cross program........................   $       1,030,249

SECTION 6. This 2009 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2009 Act takes effect July 1, 2009.

Approved by the Governor June 30, 2009

Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 30, 2009

Effective date July 1, 2009

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