2019 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment
Chapter 459A - Reuse and Recycling
Section 459A.110 - Additional fees for programs for reduction of waste and environmental risks; assessment.

(a) Disposal sites that receive domestic solid waste, building demolition or construction waste, land clearing debris, waste tires or solid waste generated outside the state, for final disposal or destruction; and

(b) Persons who transport solid waste out of the State of Oregon for final disposal or destruction to a disposal site that receives domestic solid waste, building demolition or construction waste, land clearing debris or waste tires.

(2) If the amount of waste tonnage per calendar year subject to the fees established under subsection (1) of this section falls, for two consecutive calendar years, below 90 percent of the amount of waste tonnage subject to the fees as averaged over the 2014 to 2016 calendar years, the commission may establish a schedule of fees for disposal sites for composting. A fee schedule established under this subsection shall:

(a) Apply only to tonnage received by a disposal site for composting that is in excess of the first 5,000 tons received per year by the disposal site; and

(b) Remain in effect unless or until the commission determines that a fee under this subsection is no longer necessary.

(3) Fees adopted under subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall be based on the estimated tonnage or the actual tonnage, if known, received at the site or transported out of state for disposal and any other similar or related factors the commission finds appropriate.

(4) For solid waste delivered to a disposal site owned or operated by a metropolitan service district, the schedule of fees, but not the permit fees provided in ORS 459.235, established by the commission in subsection (1) of this section shall be levied on the district, not the disposal site.

(5) The commission also may require submittal of information related to volumes and sources of solid waste if necessary to carry out the activities described in ORS 459A.120. For solid waste transported out of the State of Oregon for final disposal or destruction, the required information may include the type of solid waste, the county of origin of the solid waste and the state to which the solid waste is transported for final disposal or destruction.

(6) Before transporting or arranging for transport of solid waste out of the State of Oregon to a disposal site that receives domestic solid waste, a person shall notify the Department of Environmental Quality in writing.

(7)(a) A local government that franchises or licenses a disposal site that receives domestic solid waste shall allow the disposal site to pass through the amount of the fees established by the commission in subsections (1) and (2) of this section to the users of the site.

(b) If a disposal site that receives domestic solid waste passes through all or a portion of the fees established by the commission in subsections (1) and (2) of this section to a solid waste collector who uses the site, a local government that franchises or licenses the collection of solid waste shall allow the franchisee or licensee to include the amount of the fee in the collection service rate.

(8) As used in this section, "person" does not include an individual who transports the individual’s own residential solid waste to a disposal site located out of the state. [Formerly 459.294; 1993 c.528 §2; 1993 c.560 §86; 2015 c.662 §§4,13]