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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Projections boost state coffers
Bills propose to resolve
state wetland uncertainties and reduce budget shortfall
By CLAIRE
WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
Lawmakers
weigh rules for
fill-removal
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon land-
owners don’t have a simple,
reliable method to find out
whether their property is con-
sidered a wetland.
That’s potentially a big
problem if a structure is built
on a parcel that state authori-
ties later determine is a wet-
land, thus making the land-
owner liable for costly
mitigation measures.
Jesse Bounds, a hay
exporter near Junction City
learned that lesson the hard
way.
Upon trying to rebuild two
barns that had burned down
last summer, Bounds was
told by Oregon’s Department
of State Lands the construc-
tion was unlawful because he
hadn’t obtained a fill-removal
permit. The permit is required
when disturbing wetlands.
Bounds was shocked by
the notification, since his
12-acre parcel wasn’t iden-
tified as a wetland under the
State Wetland Inventory and
he’d obtained all necessary
building permits without a
hitch.
Two bills
Oregon lawmakers are now
contemplating two bills that
would resolve the problem.
One is aimed specifically
at Bounds’ situation, while
the other seeks to dispel the
broader confusion over which
properties fall under Depart-
ment of State Lands’s wetland
jurisdiction.
House Bill 2785 takes the
narrow approach, by exempt-
ing the replacement of a farm
building “destroyed by fire or
other act of God” from state
fill-removal laws.
House Bill 2786 is more
expansive, creating an exemp-
tion for any property that’s not
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Jesse Bounds runs a straw-compressing facility in
Junction City that state regulators claim was rebuilt on
a wetland after a fire.
designated as a wetland under
the State Wetland Inventory.
Much of the discussion
during a Feb. 21 hearing
before the House Agriculture
Committee focused on the lat-
ter bill.
Proponents argue that
landowners may believe their
property isn’t subject to fill-re-
moval laws — based on the
State Wetland Inventory —
without realizing that State
Lands can nonetheless arrive
at a different conclusion.
“They have no idea the
map is not right,” said Mary
Anne Nash, public policy
counsel for the Oregon Farm
Bureau.
Landowners such as
Bounds, who think they’ve
followed all the applicable
laws, may never hear from
State Lands unless a neighbor
makes a complaint, said Dave
Hunnicutt, executive director
of the Oregonians in Action
property rights group.
“Unfortunately, that’s the
way that DSL exercises its
jurisdiction,” Hunnicutt said.
While a housing developer
may be able to afford wetland
mitigation credits, that option
is often too costly for farmers,
he said.
Such credits, which effec-
tively pay for the creation
of wetlands elsewhere, cost
about $77,000 to $81,000 per
acre, according to the Depart-
ment of State Lands.
“Someone in Mr. Bounds’
position, it puts him out of
Some opposition
Opponents of HB 2786
claim the bill would jeopar-
dize wetlands across Oregon
because many aren’t included
in the State Wetland Inventory.
The State Wetland Inven-
tory only includes a “small
subset” of wetlands that are
under both state and federal
jurisdiction, said Tom Wolf,
executive director of the Ore-
gon Council of Trout Unlim-
ited, a group that advocates for
fish habitat.
“It’s too broad a bill,” Wolf
said.
The League of Women
Voters of Oregon believes the
wetland designation process
should be made clearer but
worries HB 2786 sets a defi-
nition that’s too limited, said
Peggy Lynch, the group’s nat-
ural resources coordinator.
“We need to have some-
thing more than the State Wet-
land Inventory to consider,”
she said.
Several members of the
House Agriculture Committee
said they sympathized with
Bounds’ predicament and the
need to clarify wetland desig-
nations, including Rep. Brian
Clem, D-Salem, the commit-
tee’s chair.
Clem said he favored a
simpler alternative to the cur-
rent system of identifying wet-
lands, under which parcels are
evaluated on a case-by-case
basis.
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SALEM — The state is
projected to collect about $92
million more in revenue than
expected in the next two-year
budget cycle, according to state
economists.
A projected $102 million
increase in the state’s beginning
balances compared to Decem-
ber estimates also means that
the possible dent into the state’s
projected budget shortfall could
be up to $195 million.
That’s merely a drop in the
bucket, though, when it comes
to lessening the state’s budget
crunch.
Leaders of the legislative
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costs to maintain current ser-
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issues with contamination and
storm runoff, addressing what
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North Tongue Point as a deep-
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He has lived overseas for
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Spence has also volunteered
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to the state’s revenue structure
were needed.
“Despite today’s good news,
we’re still $1.7 billion away
from just funding our schools
and basic services at their cur-
rent levels,” said House Major-
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mize cuts to K-12 classrooms,
in-home care for seniors, and
health care services for strug-
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revenue system.”
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