{"data":{"id":"us-or/ors-468.425","jurisdiction":"us-or","citation":"ORS 468.425","heading":"Policy.","body":"It is declared to be the policy of this state:\n      (1) To aid and encourage public agencies with authority to provide treatment works for the control of water pollution, or responsibility for implementing a nonpoint source management plan pursuant to the nonpoint source management program described in ORS 468.429, in the transition from reliance on federal grants to local self-sufficiency by the use of fees paid by users of the treatment works;\n      (2) To aid and encourage qualified institutions to assist in the protection or maintenance of water quality in the waters of this state by financing projects to repair or replace failing on-site septic systems or to replace failing on-site septic systems with connections to an available sewer;\n      (3) To accept and use any federal grant funds available to capitalize a perpetual revolving loan fund; and\n      (4) To assist public agencies in meeting treatment works’ construction obligations in order to prevent or eliminate pollution of surface and ground water by making loans from a revolving loan fund at interest rates that are less than or equal to market interest rates.","path":["13 - Housing, Games, Environment","36A. Housing; Lottery and Games; Environment","Chapter 468 — Environmental Quality Generally"],"source_url":"https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors468.html","current_through":"2025 Edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T23:50:15Z","sha256":"812c28a96be914beb65404fe39c86ba330a8ded27e59342e6db2d59c1a31604a","source_id":"us-or","stale":false,"prev":"us-or/ors-468.423","next":"us-or/ors-468.427"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}