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WEATHER
East Oregonian
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Partly sunny and
nice
Clouds and breaks
of sun
Nice with episodes
of sunshine
77° 53°
73° 56°
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasantly warm
Mostly cloudy and
very warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
78° 52°
80° 54°
79° 57°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
79° 54°
77° 53°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
74°
69°
92° (1980)
40°
43°
25° (1916)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.01"
0.16"
5.83"
8.54"
9.10"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
Corvallis
73/49
0.00"
0.17"
0.09"
3.65"
4.98"
6.65"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 20
Bend
76/46
Burns
78/38
6:59 a.m.
6:27 p.m.
12:53 a.m.
3:28 p.m.
Full
Last
Oct 27
Nov 3
Caldwell
78/43
Medford
84/51
PRECIPITATION
Oct 12
John Day
81/54
Ontario
80/46
37°
41°
25° (2012)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
74/51
Eugene
75/49
LOW
74°
70°
87° (1958)
80° 59°
Spokane
Wenatchee
73/50
76/55
Tacoma
Moses
71/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 75/49
75/48
64/55
70/50
81/48
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
72/53
77/57 Lewiston
80/53
Astoria
78/53
66/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
74/56
Pendleton 77/45
The Dalles 79/54
77/53
79/54
La Grande
Salem
78/43
74/52
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
80° 53°
Seattle
69/56
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
79° 50°
Klamath Falls
77/38
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Areas of fog across the
north today; partly sunny in the south.
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; pleasant. Partly cloudy tonight.
Clouds and sun tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy at the
coast today with areas of fog; partly sunny
across the south.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Partly cloudy
tonight, but increasing cloudiness across
the north.
Northern California: Partly sunny today,
except sunshine in central parts.
Hi
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48
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
80
88
75
65
77
46
68
76
76
91
69
Lo
57
79
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51
31
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61
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53
45
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56
57
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59
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Wed.
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WINDS
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
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SW 4-8
W 4-8
WSW 6-12
WSW 6-12
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3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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rain
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flurries
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high
warm front stationary front
low
National Summary: Rain will retreat and seas will ease along the Atlantic coast today.
However, river flooding is forecast to continue in the Carolinas. Showers and storms will
riddle areas from Wyoming to Arizona.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 93° in McAllen, Texas
Low 22° in Olney, Mont.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Hi
73
76
70
72
70
82
79
66
72
76
70
71
86
70
72
80
43
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Lo
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49
63
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Hi
68
80
73
76
71
85
78
70
77
77
70
69
90
73
72
73
41
64
86
90
76
80
77
85
87
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Wed.
Lo
51
60
58
54
47
64
55
51
61
54
56
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69
48
51
55
31
48
74
68
56
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
81
84
85
68
69
84
85
72
81
75
73
79
66
69
72
67
78
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77
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60
66
73
52
47
58
70
59
58
56
59
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80
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74
84
78
76
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67
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81
85
80
72
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Wed.
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53
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56
62
59
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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State seeks more drivers for mileage tax test
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A state pilot
program launched in July to
charge Oregon drivers based
on the amount they drive
has roughly 900 participants,
mostly in the Portland metro-
politan area.
OI¿cials had hoped to
enroll up to 5,000 people in the
pay-by-the-mile program, the
¿rst oI its Nind in the nation.
Participants sign up with one
of three private vendors, then
install an electronic device
that enables the company to
tracN mileage and collect fees.
³, thinN we all need to
get more (participants) in
because the more we have,
the better the data,´ said 9icNi
%erger, chair of a tasN force
overseeing the effort. Oregon
Department of Transportation
employees told the tasN force
this weeN they are worNing
on strategies to sign up more
people.
Although more than 200
people enrolled in Mult-
nomah County, the partic-
ipation numbers for many
counties remain in the single
digits and several counties
east of the Cascades have no
participants. Tom Fuller, a
spoNesman for ODOT, said
the agency is using various
strategies to encourage more
people to participate. For
example, the Driver and
Motor Vehicle Services Divi-
sion now provides informa-
tion about the program when
people renew their licenses
and registration.
³:e¶re
worNing
on
creating more partnerships,
worNing to get Àeets into the
test drive,´ Fuller told the tasN
force.
Fuller said the agency also
wants to sign up people with
underrepresented types of
vehicles and from more areas
of the state, “for example to
reach more eastern Orego-
nians.”
Oregon faces a long-
term transportation funding
dilemma, because state and
federal gas taxes currently
provide about half the money
for bridge, highway and other
transportation projects. As
people purchase more fuel
ef¿cient vehicles, state of¿-
cials expect gas tax revenue
will decline in the future.
“When you realize that ...
vehicles on the road are going
to use less and less fuel and
our funding is dependent on
fuel taxes, the pressure to ¿nd
something different is pretty
high,” said ODOT spoNes-
woman Michelle Godfrey.
“Costs of construction have
increased dramatically, so the
money we do get in gas tax,
even though it¶s Àat, is basi-
cally half of what we need.”
The department has been
searching since 2001 for other
options to charge people for
using Oregon’s roads and
highways, and lawmaNers
authorized the pilot project
in a 2013 law. It was origi-
nally supposed to cost $2.8
million, according to a budget
report for the legislation
that authorized the program,
Senate Bill 810. The budget
has since increased to $8.1
million through the end of
this year and the state could
spend a total of $12.7 million
by mid-2017, although
Godfrey said ODOT expects
the project to come in under
that budget. The state could
incur additional costs in the
future because the pilot will
continue inde¿nitely until
lawmaNers decide whether to
maNe it mandatory.
One problem with a
pay-by-the-mile road fee is
that it is more expensive to
administer than the gas tax.
ODOT of¿cials suggested
during the tasN force meeting
that one way to address this
might be to use the mileage
fee to replace not only the gas
tax but also license, vehicle
registration and other fees,
which carry higher adminis-
trative costs. State Rep. John
Davis, R-Wilsonville, said he
appreciated the suggestion
because otherwise, he would
be sNeptical of the road user
fee given the high administra-
tive costs.
Critics of the pilot have
said it bene¿ts drivers of
low-mpg
vehicles
that
produce more pollution
and penalizes drivers of
more fuel-ef¿cient vehicles,
and lawmaNers including
state Sen. Betsy Johnson,
D-Scappoose, have raised
concerns about the cost and
other aspects of the program.
In July, the Willamette WeeN
newspaper reported that
legislators questioned ODOT
of¿cials’ decisions to send
Jim Whitty, manager of the
agency’s Of¿ce of Innovative
Partnerships and Alternative
Funding, on more than 100
trips over the last decade
including to Washington,
D.C., Brussels, London,
Barcelona, Singapore and
Australia. The state paid
$65,000 of Whitty’s travel
costs, with the remainder
picNed up by conference
sponsors who were not iden-
ti¿ed in the newspaper article.
At the tasN force meeting
in Salem this weeN, Whitty
announced he plans to resign
from the agency at the end of
this year.
“I’m an innovator and
there comes a point where
the program becomes more
governmental,” Whitty said
after the meeting. “We’ve
reached that point. My
services are not as needed at
this stage going forward.”
Corrections
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sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistaNe in
the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
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