(2) The lead agency and other agencies participating in the interagency team shall enter into intergovernmental agreements as necessary to carry out the duties of the interagency team.
(3) The interagency team shall:
(a) Based on the best available information, develop, in a timely manner, an agency assessment and outreach plan that:
(A) Identifies potential sources of contaminants of concern contributing to ground water quality deterioration;
(B) Identifies existing authorities, programs or actions of the agencies in the interagency team that are relevant to a contaminant of concern, identifies those authorities, programs or actions that are reasonably appropriate for implementation and includes a rationale for selecting the reasonably appropriate authorities, programs or actions;
(C) Identifies best management practices to address known sources of contamination in the ground water quality concern area;
(D) Identifies strategies to share information with, coordinate with and educate likely sources of a contaminant of concern on best management practices; and
(E) Provides initial plans for implementing the actions described in ORS 468B.178; and
(b) Develop a monitoring plan and establish timelines and targets for trend analyses for the thresholds established under ORS 468B.180 for each contaminant of concern to evaluate the effectiveness of the actions taken pursuant to the ground water quality concern area designation.
(4) The interagency team shall develop publicly accessible information that facilitates understanding of the scope and extent of contamination, including but not limited to a visual representation of the geographic scope of the contamination.
(5) The interagency team shall prepare a draft of the agency assessment and outreach plan and provide the draft to the ground water management committee appointed under ORS 468B.179 and appropriate county officials for comment. The interagency team shall prepare a final agency assessment and outreach plan after receiving the comments of the committee and appropriate county officials.
(6) As applicable, the lead agency shall routinely report to the agency’s respective board or commission.
(7) Designation as a lead agency does not expand the authority of a lead agency beyond that otherwise provided for by law.
(8) Upon completion of the final agency assessment and outreach plan developed under subsections (1) to (7) of this section, the lead agency shall submit the plan in a report to the Governor and the Joint Committee on Ways and Means or the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means in the manner provided by ORS 192.245. The report must identify resources necessary to implement the plan and may include requests for funding necessary to implement the plan.
(9)(a) No later than December 15 of each even-numbered year during which a lead agency is responsible for the implementation of a final action plan, the lead agency shall submit a report in the manner provided by ORS 192.245 to the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means. The report must describe the interagency team’s progress in implementing the plan and include an assessment of the most recent monitoring results relative to historical contamination levels and the information described in subsection (3)(a)(B) of this section. The report may include requests for funding.
(b) In lieu of submitting a report described in paragraph (a) of this subsection, the Department of Environmental Quality may include the information required under paragraph (a) of this subsection in the report required under ORS 468B.162. [Formerly 536.141; 2025 c.605 §3; subsections (8) and (9) of 2025 Edition enacted as 2025 c.605 §7]
Note: See note under 468B.150.
Note: 468B.177 (8) and (9) were added to and made a part of 468B.150 to 468B.190 by legislative action but were not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.