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The bill, as described by committee staff, authorizes the construction and installation of a new publicly owned treatment works facility in the North Santiam Basin to begin prior to issuance of a Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) water-quality permit if construction begins between April 15 and June 6, 2025, and the facility owner holds certain other required permits. Committee staff said there is no amendment, no fiscal impact and no revenue impact.

Committee members raised no objections during the work session and the motion passed by voice vote to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation. There was no recorded roll-call vote in the hearing record and no amendments were offered during the committee discussion.

The bill’s text limits the early-start authorization to projects that start construction in the specified window and that obtain other required permits; it does not change DEQ’s permitting authority, according to the staff description. The committee did not take additional testimony on the measure during the recorded work session.

With the committee’s due-pass recommendation, the bill will proceed to the next legislative step for floor consideration. The hearing record does not include a timetable for further action or whether the measure will be amended later in the process.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","House Committee On Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water 04/21/2025 8:00 AM","oneSentenceSummary","The House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water moved Senate Bill 1189 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation during a brief work session.","taxTitle","Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water, House of Representatives, Committees, Legislative, Oregon","taxId",17399,"location","Oregon","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6267462,"Hearing held to make landowner preference hunting program permanent",889,888540,1777855,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3070114-75d84b2697bb9af19c4068acaf5a59bc&start=888&end=1777","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3070114-75d84b2697bb9af19c4068acaf5a59bc/thumbnail_888540.jpg","/articles/6267462/Oregon/Hearing-held-to-make-landowner-preference-hunting-program-permanent","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6267462-78bc2bf29dfcde2679c4806ed9f4f16f/orig.mp4?Expires=1771089736&Signature=oyW3HuFpLRkh7vx7Ygg39kk0IltjUVr2SO7koBOg1Zke2P~MiChSE3TFIq93ZNu3iW50wA~EUlRXT819JBcPwr5jWrcKSFRdAu2coBb1JFiu0RtwoWsipGh0dRInV1fQ0cRtSD0hPXkevo2sarfgfdFnLrGw9ni4lvqTaLD5~ZOVW352tNlL62lqzehmDyd2fa~x2GDEAH2WOFAuCkH7rTFMa8TgBHdqMGZn6UCp6icbITGNmHO0VxqDBdKiFueND3A6WBzJvuNQuUazA6VJdfUawR74FwoKIFNP75VEYop60xiy4-vBIUMoJcYuK2eyNSdlAyfy2nyPE94RPboLGQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water held a public hearing on Senate Bill 812, which would repeal the program sunset and make Oregon’s Landowner Preference (LOP) hunting program permanent.

Brian Wolfer, wildlife division deputy administrator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), told the committee the LOP program helps private landowners who provide habitat to have access to controlled hunt tags for deer, elk and pronghorn and said the program balances landowner and public hunting interests. Wolfer described program mechanics: acreage thresholds (in Western Oregon a minimum of 40 acres for deer and elk hunts; in Eastern Oregon 40 acres for antlerless deer and elk hunts and 60 acres for buck/bull hunts and pronghorn), limits on pronghorn tags to landowners and immediate family, and a transfer limit of up to 50% of available buck and bull tags to non‑family hunters where allowed.

Wolfer said landowners enroll electronically through ODFW’s licensing system, pay a registration fee (he said he believed it to be $30), identify qualifying taxlots and list hunters who would receive tags for limited hunts prior to the May 15 deadline used for the June 20 drawing. For antlerless and non‑limited hunts, Wolfer said landowners may enroll and identify hunters up until the day before a hunt begins.

Wolfer acknowledged that some landowners charge hunters for access to their property and that ODFW cannot fully quantify how often that occurs; he told the committee that 35–45% of LOP antler transfers go to non‑family members in recent seasons.

Public witnesses who testified in support included David Wiley, lead volunteer for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation; Kyle Smith, director of government relations for The Nature Conservancy in Oregon; Michael Lias of the Oregon Forest Industries Council; Lauren Kenzie of the Oregon Farm Bureau; and other stakeholders. Testimony from The Nature Conservancy and other landowners described donation programs, local stewardship benefits and community uses of donated tags.

Supporters urged the committee to pass SB 812 so that the program — in place, with varying modifications, since the early 1980s and last significantly changed in statute in 2013 — would no longer require periodic legislative extension. There was no recorded opposition in the hearing record.

The committee did not take a final vote in the recorded hearing; members asked clarifying questions about enrollment timelines, documentation and program mechanics. The hearing record shows ODFW staff and stakeholders agreed the program has matured and stakeholders recommended removing the sunset clause.","The committee heard testimony supporting Senate Bill 812, which would remove the sunset for Oregon’s Landowner Preference (LOP) program and make it permanent. The Department of Fish and Wildlife and multiple conservation, agricultural and industry groups testified in favor, citing stewardship incentives and program stability.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6267467,"Sen. Sarah Gelser‑Blue, constituents urge change after dogs killed alpacas",696,110900,807270,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3070114-75d84b2697bb9af19c4068acaf5a59bc&start=110&end=807","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3070114-75d84b2697bb9af19c4068acaf5a59bc/thumbnail_110900.jpg","/articles/6267467/Oregon/Sen-Sarah-GelserBlue-constituents-urge-change-after-dogs-killed-alpacas","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6267467-8f50de3c84d5450663cee0d2034647e8/orig.mp4?Expires=1771089736&Signature=fH9zYYpRsGrr5pDTgrrpgR8Siit8XNBhBbpwO4~STzpJL8fe5RZSaeFVglKKw5bHgAESw1rKvqaZT5c8eohEzmQDtFdH4qQrLuGVhom57pMdvDSL0mr4bJ8MSaAbt7DRoHJOUdTzCjt8p7ZrBcLsax407fVb9cXIY6bLG3U1CuL8j6ZciS1APJllVhTiVkMUVDFpb3h~MxITSvN1O6rkqE7C9hHWi4w9qk~0PHcTAEqtQIIszz7gPR~yjLYs0mSnufm~pXFF9SbMoPpITr8k0O3G1HWJySyQ62moWfJWgMA7lhM-XXHWHMdnjh3Dcq4LgyNIaE~9sJbvXudB2q-Nlg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","State Sen. Sarah Gelser‑Blue introduced Senate Bill 733 and said the measure would close a gap between how the law treats nuisance dogs and potentially dangerous dogs when livestock are attacked.

\"There is a difference between a nuisance dog and a potentially dangerous dog,\" Gelser‑Blue told the House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water. She said the bill grew from constituent reports of dogs running free and severely injuring alpacas, and that counties currently lack the same control tools for nuisance dogs that they have for dogs officially classified as potentially dangerous.

Linn County resident Gary Chandler testified he and his wife lost four alpacas after dogs attacked their small herd. Chandler said video showed over an hour of dogs attacking the animals; one alpaca was killed and three were later euthanized by a veterinarian. He said the county sheriff identified the dogs and their owner, but \"the deputy sheriff said that no, that they weren't able to do any more than issue a citation as nuisance dogs\" and that the owners were advised only to confine the animals.

\"To me, a nuisance dog is maybe a dog that pushes over garbage cans,\" Chandler said. \"A dog that brutalizes and kills livestock, should not meet that ... way surpasses a nuisance dog.\" Chandler said he raised the issue with Sen. Gelser‑Blue and supported the bill as the legislative response.

During committee discussion members asked clarifying questions about the definition of livestock; Gelser‑Blue said the bill would not include chickens in the livestock definition. A committee member asked about the term \"jackass\" in the draft language for donkeys; staff agreed to review the wording.

Several other members of the public expressed support, and Gelser‑Blue said she had heard from at least one other constituent with a similar experience. The hearing record contains testimony and questions but no committee vote on SB 733 in this session.

The committee did not take final action on SB 733 during the recorded hearing; committee members directed staff to answer drafting questions raised during the testimony.","Sen. Sarah Gelser‑Blue introduced Senate Bill 733 and constituents testified that state law treats livestock attacks by dogs as 'nuisance' in some cases, limiting county options. Witnesses described livestock loss and local enforcement that resulted only in nuisance citations.","actionData","errors"]

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