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e. Recycling User Fees <br /> <br /> The City supports exploration of user fees as one possible option to fund <br /> recycling and resource recovery programs. <br /> <br /> f. Responsible Materials Processing <br /> <br /> The City encourages the State to provide greater support to businesses and <br /> nonprofit agencies that process materials for reuse and recycling. Further, the <br /> City supports incentives and/or requirements for manufactured products to be <br /> assembled in such a manner that they can be disassembled for reuse and <br /> recycling. <br /> <br />B. WATER AND ENDANGERED SPECIES <br /> <br /> 1. WATER QUALITY <br /> <br /> a. DEQ Permit Fees/Water Quality Program Funding <br /> <br /> The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issues National Pollution <br /> Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) and Water Pollution Control Facility <br /> permits. Permit fees include an application fee and an annual permit <br /> maintenance fee. <br /> <br /> The City opposes any effort to increase reliance on fees from local government to <br /> support statewide programs, believing that statewide water quality programs <br /> should be funded from the State General Fund. Permit and other fees should be <br /> based only upon the actual cost of issuing and administering the permits for the <br /> different permittees. The distribution of the costs should not result in one class <br /> of permittees subsidizing another class (large vs. small permittees or municipal <br /> vs. industrial permittees). The State should provide a clear accounting of the <br /> basis for any permit fees and of the allocation of fee revenue to permit program <br /> activities. The City also believes more attention and resources should be focused <br /> on the current backlog of expired NPDES permits. The City further encourages <br /> the State to define the responsibility of non-point sources in the funding strategy <br /> for water quality program support. <br /> <br /> Local governments are required to establish fair and equitable user charges to <br /> sewerage system customers; a similar level of accountability should be <br /> incorporated into the DEQ's permit fee structure. <br /> <br /> b. Storm Water <br /> <br />City of Eugene Legislative Policies, 2005 Session 44 <br /> <br /> <br />