Chapter 536 Oregon Laws 2011

AN ACT

HB 5022

Relating to the 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, 2011, out of the General Fund, the following amounts, of which the department may expend up to 54 percent during the period beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012, for the following purposes:

(1) Air quality $ 5,279,554

(2) Water quality $ 13,209,386

(3) Land quality $ 540,859

(4) Cross program $ 666,615

(5) Debt service $ 5,379,568

SECTION 2. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the following amounts are established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, 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, drinking water protection, beach bacteria monitoring, laboratory accreditation and woodstove grants 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 $ 40,037,109

(2) Water quality $ 22,269,315

(3) Land quality $ 55,719,558

(4) Cross program $ 162,168

(5) Agency management $ 21,941,682

(6) Debt service $ 238,600

SECTION 3. Notwithstanding any other law limiting expenditures, the amount of $4,503,053 is established for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, 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. The department may expend up to 54 percent of the amount established under this section during the period beginning July 1, 2011, and ending June 30, 2012.

SECTION 4. For the biennium beginning July 1, 2011, 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, 2011, as the maximum limits for payment of expenses from federal funds other than those described in section 2 of this 2011 Act collected or received by the Department of Environmental Quality, for the following purposes:

(1) Air quality $ 7,248,777

(2) Water quality $ 12,117,300

(3) Land quality $ 10,413,518

(4) Cross program $ 951,967

SECTION 6. This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect July 1, 2011.

Approved by the Governor June 28, 2011

Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 29, 2011

Effective date July 1, 2011

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