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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017
Oregon has second-worst water-quality permit backlog
By TONY SCHICK
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon’s
backlog
of
expired water-quality permits
is among the worst in the coun-
try, meaning the state has let
facilities discharge pollutants
at levels that may violate cur-
rent protections for the state’s
waterways.
That’s the argument of a
lawsuit filed in Multnomah
County today by two environ-
mental groups seeking to force
the state’s Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality to update
hundreds of old permits.
Environmental Advocates
and the Northwest Environ-
mental Defense Center want
to put DEQ under a court order
to update permits that are more
than five years old, which is
about 40 percent of the permits.
“They’ve been trying to fix
it over 15 years and they have
not been successful,” said Nina
Bell of Northwest Environ-
mental Advocates. “We want
to have them put under a court
order so they are required to
take this issue seriously and
deal with it once and for all.”
More than a decade
Oregon’s DEQ has strug-
gled with backlog of old per-
mits for more than a decade.
In 2015, the state Legislature
directed the agency to hire an
outside consultant to review
its water-quality permitting
program.
The consultant report con-
cluded DEQ lacked appropri-
ate staffing to write permits,
often failed to coordinate prop-
erly the scientific and regula-
tory efforts needed to issue a
new permit.
“We completely agree that
there’s a serious problem with
having as many permits that
are expired as we have right
now,” said Keith Andersen, a
DEQ water-quality advisor.
DEQ has also been reluc-
tant to write permits that
demand costly upgrades, such
Bills would ease rules on
new farmland dwellings
By MATEUSZ
PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
gon’s housing problem.
There are limits to what
can be accomplished with
legislation focused on land-
lord-tenant relations, said Julie
Parrish, R-West Linn, during a
March 14 legislative hearing.
“It doesn’t put new units in
the mix,” she said.
SALEM — Two bills
aimed at expanding affordable
housing in rural Oregon would
make it easier to build dwell-
ings or permanently reside
in recreational vehicles on
farmland.
Advocates of House bills
2937 and 2938 say the pro-
posals would help mitigate the
state’s housing shortage with-
out undermining protections
for farmland.
However, critics argue the
bills would disrupt agricul-
tural operations without hav-
ing much impact on housing
and could be counterproduc-
tive by encouraging short-term
rentals.
“It’s just not the best use
of farmland,” said Mary Anne
Nash, public policy counsel
for the Oregon Farm Bureau.
Proponents of the bills said
lawmakers need to be creative
in finding solutions to Ore-
Oregon’s land use system
was intended to preserve farm-
land but not to create insuffi-
cent housing and perpetuate
homelessness, Parrish said.
Meanwhile, HB 2937 and
2938 have restrictions that
limit new dwellings and won’t
“upset the land use apple cart
in any significant way,” she
said.
Under HB 2937, a sin-
gle “accessory dwelling” can
be sited within 100 feet of an
existing home in a rural resi-
dential zone, or in a “exclusive
farm use” zone with a county
conditional use permit.
The same conditions apply
to a single recreational vehicle
used for “residential purposes”
under HB 2938.
County governments can
decide whether or not to
incorporate these provisions
into their land use plans and
Critics say
proposals may
disrupt ag
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they’re also free to place addi-
tional restrictions on accessory
dwellings and recreational
vehicles sited in farm zones,
according to supporters.
“The opportunity to be
bold is there. You’re going to
take political arrows either
way,” said Shawn Cleave,
government affairs director
for the Oregon Association of
Realtors.
Critics of the proposals
say that affordable housing is
needed more near cities where
residents have access to jobs,
transportation and other ser-
vices, rather than in remote
rural areas.
More people living in the
countryside also means strains
will increase on local road and
water systems, opponents said.
Neither bill requires hous-
ing to be provided at afford-
able rates or to residents with
low incomes, said Mary Kyle
McCurdy, deputy director of
the 1,000 Friends of Oregon,
a nonprofit that supports Ore-
gon’s land use system.
The proposals don’t pro-
hibit landowners from using
the dwellings for short-term
vacation rentals, which often
crowd out long-term rentals,
McCurdy said.
as a million-dollar treatment
plant upgrade, particularly for
cities that cannot afford them,
Andersen said.
“We didn’t get here over-
night,” Andersen said. “Fixing
the problem is going to require
time and resources. This is
going to have to be a compre-
hensive solution.”
Negative consequences
The backlog has nega-
tive consequences both for the
environment and the compa-
nies holding the permits.
For instance, an outdated
permit does not require facil-
ities to meet water-qual-
ity standards that might have
been adopted or tightened in
the years after it was origi-
nally issued. It can also ham-
string a business that wants to
expand or adjust its operations,
because the state can’t modify
an expired permit to accommo-
date those changes.
Oregon’s percent of active
permits is next to last in the
country at roughly 26 percent,
according to EPA data. But the
extent of expired permits is
only part of the story, Bell said.
Washington, for instance,
has a smaller backlog, with 65
percent of its permits active.
“They appear superficially
to look better, but once you
look behind the curtain and
you look at what those permits
really are doing, you realize
that there are very few controls
required,” Bell said.
But Bell’s organization also
filed a complaint in Washing-
ton in February over the state’s
controls on pollution dis-
charged into Puget Sound.
Citing an obligation for
the EPA to intercede when a
state fails to uphold the Clean
Water Act, the lawsuit aims to
force an update to Washing-
ton’s water-quality standards
for toxics that can harm aquatic
life.
A spokesperson for the
Washington Department of
Ecology declined comment.
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PUBLISHER'S NOTICE
AB6183
NOTICE OF BUDGET
COMMITTEE MEETING
A public meeting of the budget
committee of the Elsie-
Vinemaple RFPD #11, Clatsop
County, Oregon, will be held at
42644 Loyd Lane, Seaside,
Oregon to discuss the budget
for the fiscal year July 1,2017 to
June 30, 2018. The meeting will
take place on March 21, 2017 at
7:00 PM. This is a public
meeting where deliberation of
the Budget Committee will take
place with comments from the
public.
Published: March 15th and
17th, 2017
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securing custody of children
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of the law. Our readers are
hereby informed that all dwellings
advertised in this newspaper are
available on an equal opportunity
basis.
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AB6162
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
THE STATE OF OREGON FOR
THE COUNTY OF CLATSOP
Wilmington Trust,
National Association,
as trustee for Newcastle
Investment Trust 2014-MH1,
Plaintiff,
v.
James L. Littlefield,
Unknown Heirs Legatees and
Devisees of James L. Littlefield,
UNKNOWN OCCUPANTS,
Defendants.
Case No.:16CV33982
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS
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CAREFULLY!
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the other side will win
automatically. To “appear” you
must file with the court a legal
paper called a “motion” or
“answer.” The “motion” or
“answer” must be given to the
court clerk or administrator
within 30 days of the date of first
publication, 03/01/2017, along
with the required filing fee. It
must be in proper form and
have proof of service on the
Plaintiff's attorney or, if the
Plaintiff does not have an
attorney, proof of service on the
Plaintiff. The subject of this a
judicial foreclosure of real
property commonly known as
42376 Evergreen Acres Ln,
Seaside, OR 97138 for non-
payment of mortgage debt. If
you have questions, you should
see an attorney immediately. If
you need help in finding an
attorney, you may call the
Oregon State Bar's Lawyer
Referral Service at (503) 684-
3763 or toll-free in Oregon at
(800) 452-7636.
On March 23, 2017, at the hour of 10:00 AM at the Clatsop County
Sheriffʼs Office, 1190 SE 19th Street in the City of Warrenton, Oregon,
the defendantʼs interest will be sold, subject to redemption, in the real
property commonly known as: 316 Lexington Avenue, Astoria,
OREGON. The court case number is 16CV16981, where
NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC is plaintiff, and CAITLIN M.
SARANIERO; DAVID M. SARANIERO; U.S. BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO UNITED STATES
NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON; RAY KLEIN, INC. D/B/A
PROFESSIONAL CREDIT SERVICE; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA),
N.A.;
ASSET
RECOVERY
GROUP
INC.;
COMMERCIAL
ADJUSTMENT CO.; PARTIES IN POSSESSION is defendant. The
sale is a public auction to the highest bidder for cash or cashierʼs
check, in hand, made out to Clatsop County Sheriffʼs Office. For more
information on this sale go to: http://oregonsheriffssales.org/ (OR),
http://files.co.clatsop.or.us/ccso/foreclosures.pdf
Published: February 22nd, March 1st, 8th and 15th, 2017.
AB6178
OFFICIAL NOTICE
OREGON ALBACORE COMMISSION
PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING
The OREGON ALBACORE COMMISSION (OAC) will hold a Budget
Hearing pursuant to ORS 576.416, on Thursday, April 6 at 10:00am at
the Cannery Pier Hotel, 10 Basin St., Astoria, Oregon upon a proposed
budget for operation of the Oregon Albacore Commission during the
FY July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018. A public meeting will be held
Wednesday, April 5 from noon until 5pm, and continue at 8:30am on
April 6. Agenda items will include presentations, 2016 season recap
and 2017 marketing and promotional activities.
At this meeting, any Albacore harvester in Oregon selling Albacore
through a first purchaser or directly to the pubic and any first purchaser
buying Albacore in Oregon has the right to be heard with respect to the
proposed budget. Copies are available for inspection, under
reasonable circumstances, at the Albacore Commission office in
Lincoln City.
For further information, please contact: OAC, P.O. Box 983, Lincoln City,
OR 97367-0983. Phone/fax: 541-994- 2647;
nancy@oregonsalmon.org.
The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. A request
for an interpreter for the hearing impaired or for other accommodations
for persons with disabilities should be made at least 48 hours before
the meeting to the OAC office at 541-994- 2647.
Published: March 15th, 2017
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