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OR Rev Stat § 448.140 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.140 - Permit for operation of water system.

A water system that does not comply with the rules and standards of the Oregon Health Authority shall be operated only after the water supplier has received a permit for the system from the authority if: (1) The authority has not granted a variance from standards as provided under ORS 448.135 to the water supplier; and (2) The water system is providing water that does not meet maximum contaminant standards as determined by an investigation conducted by the authority under ORS 448.150. [1981 c.749 §8; 2009 c.595 §842]
OR Rev Stat § 448.145 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.145 - When permit may be issued; compliance schedule; hearing; notice.

(1) A permit shall be issued by the Oregon Health Authority when there are economic or other compelling factors such that the water supplier is unable to install the water treatment facilities or to meet the maximum contaminant levels. (2) The authority shall prescribe a compliance schedule, including interim measures to eliminate the risk to health, which sets a specific time limit for the water supplier operating on a permit to install the water treatment facilities or to meet the maximum contaminant levels. (3) For so long as the water supplier operates on a permit, the water supplier must notify its customers at least once every three months why the water system is, or remains, out of compliance. (4) When the authority announces its intention to grant a permit, the authority shall: (a) Hold a public hearing in the affected area prior to granting the permit; or (b) Serve notice of intent to issue the permit either personally, or by registered or certified mail to all customers connected to the water system, or by publication in a newspaper in general circulation in the area. If no hearing is requested within 10 days of the date that notice is given, the authority may finalize the permit. (5) The document evidencing the permit shall contain a statement of the conditions under which the water system may operate. [1981 c.749 §9; 1983 c.271 §6; 2009 c.595 §843]
OR Rev Stat § 448.153 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.153 - State Drinking Water Advisory Committee; rules.

(1) The State Drinking Water Advisory Committee is created to advise and assist the Oregon Health Authority on policies related to the protection, safety and regulation of public drinking water in Oregon. (2) The committee created under this section shall consist of 15 members appointed by the Public Health Officer. The officer shall make the appointments after considering nominees from: (a) Public water systems of cities with a population greater than 100,000; (b) Privately owned water systems; (c) Environmental advocacy groups; (d) The American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon; (e) The Conference of Local Health Officials created by ORS 431.330; (f) The League of Oregon Cities; (g) The League of Women Voters of Oregon; (h) The Oregon Association of Water Utilities; (i) The Oregon Environmental Health Association; (j) The Oregon Environmental Laboratory Association; (k) The Pacific Northwest Section of the American Water Works Association; (L) The Special Districts Association of Oregon; (m) Organizations representing plumbers or backflow testers; (n) Water consumers; and (o) Watershed councils. (3) The committee shall adopt rules to govern its proceedings and shall select a chair and any other officers it considers necessary. (4) The members shall be appointed to serve for terms of three years. A vacancy on the committee shall be filled by appointment by the Public Health Officer for the unexpired term. (5) The committee shall meet regularly four times a year at times and places fixed by the chair of the committee. The committee may meet at other times specified by the chair or a majority of the members of the committee. (6) The Oregon Health Authority shall provide assistance and space for meetings as requested by the chair of the committee. (7) Members of the committee shall be entitled to actual and necessary expenses as provided by ORS 292.495 (2). [2007 c.572 §1; 2009 c.595 §845] Note: 448.153 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 448 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 448.155 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.155 - Technical assistance and training; public information.

The Oregon Health Authority: (1) May provide technical assistance and organize, coordinate and conduct training for water system personnel. (2) Shall conduct a program designed to stimulate public participation in matters relating to water systems through public presentations, dissemination of informational materials and other similar efforts. [1981 c.749 §11; 2009 c.595 §846]
OR Rev Stat § 448.160 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.160 - Emergency plans.

(1) The Oregon Health Authority shall maintain a plan outlining actions to be taken by the authority during emergencies relating to water systems. (2) The authority may require that a water supplier compile an emergency plan if it appears necessary to the Director of the Oregon Health Authority. [1981 c.749 §12; 2009 c.595 §847]
OR Rev Stat § 448.165 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.165 - Local government water service plans.

(1) Counties may develop water service plans. These plans should encourage small water systems to combine management functions and to consolidate where possible. Water service plans must be in keeping with county land use plans. (2) Cities or counties, whichever have authority to issue building permits, must certify that the Oregon Health Authority has approved the construction and installation plans of a proposed water system development and the development plan does not violate city or county water service plans before issuing a building permit. (3) Counties or boundary commissions are authorized to approve the formation, consolidation and expansion of water systems not owned by cities in keeping with county and city plans. In doing so, counties or boundary commissions should consider whether water service is extended in a logical fashion and water systems have a financial base sufficient for operation and maintenance. [1981 c.749 §13; 2009 c.595 §848]
OR Rev Stat § 448.170 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.170 - Agreement to authorize local public health authority to exercise duties; suits involving validity of administrative rule.

(1) The Oregon Health Authority may enter into an agreement with a local public health authority, as defined in ORS 431.003, under which the local public health authority performs the duties of the Oregon Health Authority under the Oregon Drinking Water Quality Act. The duration of the agreement, the duties to be performed and the remuneration to be paid by the Oregon Health Authority are subject to agreement by the Oregon Health Authority and the local public health authority. (2) In any action, suit or proceeding arising out of a local public health authority’s administration of functions pursuant to ORS 446.310, 448.030, 448.115 to 448.285, 454.235, 454.255, 455.170 and 757.005 and involving the validity of a rule adopted by the Oregon Health Authority, the Oregon Health Authority shall be made a party to the action, suit or proceeding. [1981 c.749 §14; 2009 c.595 §849; 2015 c.736 §95]
OR Rev Stat § 448.175 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.175 - Power of Oregon Health Authority to order compliance.

Subject to ORS chapter 183, the Oregon Health Authority: (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 that meets the authority’s 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. [1981 c.749 §17; 2009 c.595 §850]
OR Rev Stat § 448.180 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.180 - Waiver of construction standards.

The Oregon Health Authority may grant waivers on construction standards if the authority is satisfied there will be no unreasonable risk to health. [1983 c.271 §2; 2009 c.595 §851]
OR Rev Stat § 448.250 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.250 - Remedy when system a health hazard; special master; sale of system.

(1) Whenever a water system or part thereof presents or threatens to present a public health hazard requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety and welfare, the Director of the Oregon Health Authority may request the district attorney of the county wherein the system is located to institute an action. The action may be commenced without the necessity of prior administrative procedures or hearing and entry of an order or at any time during such administrative proceedings, if such proceedings have been commenced. The action may petition for a mandatory injunction compelling the water supplier to cease and desist operation or to make such improvements and corrections as are necessary to remove the public health hazard or threat thereof. (2)(a) If the water supplier refuses to comply with the order of the court, in addition to other remedies, the court may appoint a special master to operate the water system. Costs of operation and improvement during operation by the special master are to be charged to the water supplier and may be collected by impounding revenue due to the water supplier from customers of the supplier; or, if those funds are insufficient, from other revenues due to the water supplier. (b) The court may require sale of a water system under a special master to a responsible party if the water supplier refuses to comply with the standards and requirements of the Oregon Health Authority. (3) Cases filed under provisions of this section or any appeal therefrom shall be given preference on the docket over all other civil cases except those given an equal preference by statute. (4) Nothing in this section is intended to prevent the maintenance of actions for legal or equitable remedies relating to private or public nuisance or for recovery of damages brought by private persons or by the state on relation of any person. [Formerly 449.247; 1975 c.254 §10; 1979 c.284 §145; 1981 c.749 §15; 2009 c.595 §852]
OR Rev Stat § 448.255 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.255 - Notice of violation; content; hearing; order; appeal.

(1) Whenever the Director of the Oregon Health Authority has reasonable grounds to believe that a water system or part thereof is being operated or maintained in violation of any rule adopted pursuant to ORS 448.115 to 448.285, 454.235 and 454.255, the director shall give written notice to the water supplier responsible for the system. (2) The notice required under subsection (1) of this section shall include the following: (a) Citation of the rule allegedly violated; (b) The manner and extent of the alleged violation; and (c) A statement of the party’s right to request a hearing. (3) The notice shall be served personally or by registered or certified mail and shall be accompanied by an order of the director requiring remedial action which, if taken within the time specified in the order, will effect compliance with the rule allegedly violated. The order shall become final unless request for hearing is made by the party receiving the notice within 10 days from the date of personal service or the date of mailing of the notice. (4) The form of petition for hearing and the procedures employed in the hearing shall be consistent with the requirements of ORS chapter 183 and shall be in accordance with rules adopted by the Oregon Health Authority. (5) Hearings under this section shall be conducted by an administrative law judge assigned from the Office of Administrative Hearings established under ORS 183.605. (6) The order shall be affirmed or reversed by the director after hearing. A copy of the director’s decision setting forth findings of fact and conclusions shall be sent by registered or certified mail to the petitioner or served personally upon the petitioner. An appeal from such decision may be made as provided in ORS 183.480 relating to a contested case. [1973 c.835 §171; 1975 c.254 §11; 1981 c.749 §16; 1997 c.249 §150; 1999 c.849 §§84,85; 2003 c.75 §36; 2009 c.595 §853]
OR Rev Stat § 448.265 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.265 - Prohibited actions; nuisance abatement.

(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the following if the result would be to pollute a source of a water system or to destroy or endanger a water system: (a) Establish or maintain any slaughter pen, stock-feeding yards or hogpens. (b) Deposit or maintain any unclean or unwholesome substance. (2) Violation of subsection (1)(a) or (b) of this section is a public nuisance and may be abated as other nuisances under the laws of this state. [Formerly 449.320; 1975 c.254 §12; 1981 c.749 §18; 2003 c.14 §270]
OR Rev Stat § 448.268 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.268 - Area of ground water concern; declaration.

If, as a result of its activities under ORS 448.150, the Oregon Health Authority confirms the presence in ground water drinking water supplies of contaminants resulting at least in part from suspected nonpoint source activities, the authority shall declare an area of ground water concern. The declaration shall identify the substances confirmed in the ground water and all ground water aquifers that may be affected. [1989 c.833 §32; 2009 c.595 §854] Note: 448.268 and 448.271 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 448 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 448.271 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.271 - Transfer of property that includes well; testing; effect.

(1) In any transaction for the sale or exchange of real estate that includes a well that supplies ground water for domestic purposes, the seller of the real estate shall, upon accepting an offer to purchase that real estate, have the well tested for arsenic, nitrates and total coliform bacteria. The Oregon Health Authority also may, by rule, require additional tests for specific contaminants in specific areas of public health concern. The seller shall submit the results of the tests required under this section to the authority and to the buyer within 90 days of receiving the results of the tests. (2) The failure of a seller to comply with the provisions of this section does not invalidate an instrument of conveyance executed in the transaction. [1989 c.833 §30; 2009 c.284 §1; 2009 c.595 §855] Note: See note under 448.268.
OR Rev Stat § 448.273 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.273 - Federal Safe Drinking Water Act administration.

The Legislative Assembly finds that an agreement between this state and the federal government to assume primary enforcement responsibility in this state for the federal Safe Drinking Water Act is in the best interest of this state, subject to the following assumptions: (1) The federal government provides an annual program grant in an amount no less than that allocated for the state in the 1984 fiscal year. (2) The federal government provides technical assistance to this state, as requested, in emergency situations and during outbreaks of waterborne diseases. (3) The federal government must negotiate an annual work plan for the Oregon Health Authority that can be accomplished within the amount of program grant funding available. (4) The authority adopts standards no less stringent than the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. (5) The authority provides engineering assistance through regional offices in at least four geographically distributed areas in this state. (6) In cooperation with representatives of local health departments, the authority develops an equitable formula for distribution of available funds to support local health department water programs. (7) The primacy agreement may be canceled by the authority, upon 90 days’ notice, if at any time the federal requirements exceed the amount of federal funding and the cancellation is approved by the legislative review agency as defined in ORS 291.371 (1). (8) The federal government can impose financial sanctions against this state if the state fails to meet the objectives of the annual negotiated work plan without reasonable explanation by tying the next annual funding to specific state production and by withholding of funds a possibility if continued unexplained failures occur but no sanction exists to interfere with other types of federal funding in this state. (9) The federal government may seek to enforce the safe drinking water standards if this state fails to take timely compliance action against a public water system that violates such standards. (10) Enforcement under subsection (9) of this section may be by injunctive relief or, in the case of willful violation, civil penalties authorized by 42 U.S.C. 300g-3(a) and (b). [1985 c.178 §1; 2001 c.900 §257; 2009 c.595 §856]
OR Rev Stat § 448.277 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.277 - Authority as administrator.

The Oregon Health Authority is authorized to enter into an agreement with the federal government to administer the federal Safe Drinking Water Act in this state. The agreement is subject to the legislative assumption stated in ORS 448.273. The agreement shall remain in effect subject to annual renegotiation of the duties to be performed and the remuneration to be received by the authority except that it may be canceled by the authority, upon 90 days’ notice, if at any time the federal requirements exceed the amount of federal funding and the cancellation is approved by the legislative review agency as defined in ORS 291.371 (1). [1985 c.178 §2; 2009 c.595 §857]
OR Rev Stat § 448.278 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.278 - Program for regulating cross-connections and backflow assemblies; fees.

(1) The Oregon Health Authority shall establish a program for regulating cross-connections and the backflow assemblies that are part of a water system. (2) The authority may assess an annual fee on community water systems for the purpose of implementing the cross-connection and backflow assembly program established pursuant to this section. The fee may not exceed: (a) $30 for a water system that has 15 to 99 service connections; (b) $75 for a water system that has 100 to 999 service connections; (c) $200 for a water system that has 1,000 to 9,999 service connections; or (d) $350 for a water system that has 10,000 or more service connections. [2005 c.806 §11; 2009 c.595 §858] Note: 448.278 was added to and made a part of 448.119 to 448.285 by legislative action but was not added to any other series in ORS chapter 448. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 448.279 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 12 - Public Health|Chapter 448 - Pool Facilities; Water and Sewage Systems|Section 448.279 - Certification of inspectors of cross-connections and testers of backflow assemblies; fees; rules.

(1) The Oregon Health Authority by rule shall establish a certification program for persons who inspect cross-connections or test backflow assemblies. The program shall include minimum qualifications necessary for a person to be certified to: (a) Conduct a cross-connection inspection; and (b) Test a backflow assembly. (2) Except for an employee of a water supplier as defined in ORS 448.115, a person certified under this section must: (a) Become licensed as a construction contractor with the Construction Contractors Board as provided under ORS chapter 701; or (b) Be employed by a landscape contracting business licensed under ORS 671.510 to 671.760. (3) In conjunction with the certification program established under subsection (1) of this section, the authority may establish and collect a fee from an individual requesting certification under the program. A fee imposed under this subsection: (a) Is not refundable; and (b) May not exceed the cost of administering the certification program of the authority for which purpose the fee is established, as authorized by the Legislative Assembly within the budget of the authority and as the budget may be modified by the Emergency Board. (4) The authority may not require a journeyman plumber licensed under ORS chapter 693 or an apprentice plumber, as defined in ORS 693.010, to obtain a certification for testing backflow assemblies under the program established under this section. (5) All moneys collected by the Oregon Health Authority under this section shall be deposited in the General Fund to the credit of an account of the authority. Such moneys are continuously appropriated to the Oregon Health Authority to pay the cost of administering the certification program established pursuant to this section and the cost of administering water system cross-connection and backflow assembly programs. [1993 c.565 §§2,3; 1997 c.398 §1; 1999 c.402 §3; 2005 c.609 §9; 2005 c.736 §1; 2005 c.806 §12; 2007 c.71 §137; 2007 c.541 §4; 2009 c.595 §859]