Bill Text: OR SB253 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relating to development of large industrial sites; and appropriating money.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-08-21 - Effective date, January 1, 2014. [SB253 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-SB253-Amended.html

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     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

SA to SB 253

LC 2203/SB 253-3

                      SENATE AMENDMENTS TO
                         SENATE BILL 253

           By COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND TRANSPORTATION

                            April 22

  On page 1 of the printed bill, delete lines 4 through 27 and
delete pages 2 through 4 and insert:
  '  { +  SECTION 1. + }  { + The Legislative Assembly finds
that:
  ' (1) A competitive supply of market-ready regionally
significant industrial sites is critical to the expansion and
recruitment of traded sector industries in this state.
  ' (2) Traded sector industries are the foundation of state and
regional economic development strategies for long-term prosperity
and job creation.
  ' (3) There is a shortage of market-ready regionally
significant industrial sites in this state and limited financial
tools and developers available to facilitate the development of
regionally significant industrial sites in this state.
  ' (4) Financial assistance is required to facilitate the
determination of necessary actions, costs and development-related
constraints involved in ensuring the availability of a
competitive supply of market-ready regionally significant
industrial sites suitable for industrial use and development in
this state. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 2. + }  { + As used in sections 1 to 4 of this
2013 Act:
  ' (1) 'Due diligence assessment' means an assessment of the
actions, costs and time frames involved in bringing regionally
significant industrial sites to market-ready status, including
but not limited to wetland delineation, geotechnical
investigation, environmental assessment and traffic analysis.
  ' (2) 'Economic development district' means one of the
following:
  ' (a) The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians Economic
Development Corporation, serving tribal members of the
Burns-Paiute Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua
and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, the
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the Coquille Indian Tribe,
the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and the Klamath
Tribes.
  ' (b) The Cascades West Economic Development District, serving
Benton, Lane, Lincoln and Linn Counties.
  ' (c) The Columbia-Pacific Economic Development District,
serving Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook Counties and western
Washington County.
  ' (d) The CCD Business Development Corporation, serving Coos,
Curry and Douglas Counties.
  ' (e) The Greater Eastern Oregon Development Corporation,
serving Gilliam, Grant, Morrow, Umatilla, Wheeler, Harney and
Malheur Counties.
  ' (f) The Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, serving
Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson Counties.
  ' (g) The Mid-Columbia Economic Development District, serving
Hood River, Wasco and Sherman Counties.
  ' (h) The Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments, serving
Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties.
  ' (i) The South Central Oregon Economic Development District,
serving Lake and Klamath Counties.
  ' (j) The Northeast Oregon Economic Development District
serving Baker, Union and Wallowa Counties.
  ' (k) Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development, Inc.,
serving Jackson and Josephine Counties.
  ' (L) Greater Portland, Inc.?Portland-Vancouver Economic
Development District, serving Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington
Counties.
  ' (3) 'Industrial use' means employment activities, including
but not limited to manufacturing, assembly, fabrication,
processing, storage, logistics, warehousing, importation,
distribution, transshipment and research and development, that
generate income from the production, handling or distribution of
goods or services, including goods or services in the traded
sector.
  ' (4) 'Local government' has the meaning given that term in ORS
197.015.
  ' (5) 'Market-ready' means that a regionally significant
industrial site has been issued all appropriate and necessary
building permits.
  ' (6) 'Region' means an economic development district, a port
district as defined in ORS 285A.666 or an area within the
jurisdiction of a local government.
  ' (7) 'Regional industrial land inventory' means an inventory
of regionally significant industrial sites in a region that
identifies development-related constraints and opportunities to
develop regionally significant industrial sites and that rates
the sites based on market-ready status.
  ' (8) 'Regionally significant industrial site' means an area
planned and zoned for industrial use that:
  ' (a)(A) Contains a site or sites, including brownfields, that
are suitable for the location of new industrial uses or the
expansion of existing industrial uses and that can provide
significant additional employment in the region;
  ' (B) Has site characteristics that give the area significant
competitive advantages that are difficult or impossible to
replicate in the region; and
  ' (C) Has superior access to transportation and freight
infrastructure, including but not limited to rail, port, airport,
multimodal freight or transshipment facilities and other major
transportation facilities or routes; or
  ' (b) Is land designated by Metro, as defined in ORS 197.015,
as a regionally significant industrial area.
  ' (9) 'Willing property owner' means a public or private
property owner that is committed to bringing a regionally
significant industrial site to a state of market-readiness and
pursuing development of the site for industrial use. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 3. + }  { + (1) The Oregon Business Development
Department shall establish and administer the Oregon Industrial
Site Readiness Assessment Program. The purpose of the program is
to provide grants on a competitive basis, as funds are available,
to:
  ' (a) Public owners of regionally significant industrial sites
or public entities that have entered into development agreements
or other agreements with private owners with respect to
regionally significant industrial sites, to perform due diligence
assessments, define development-related constraints and create
detailed development plans to move the site toward a state of
market-readiness; and
  ' (b) Public owners of regionally significant industrial sites
or public entities that have entered into development agreements
or other agreements with private owners with respect to
regionally significant industrial sites, acting on behalf of
regions for the purposes of performing regional industrial land
inventories and prioritizing sites for due diligence assessment
and site preparation assistance.
  ' (2) In each fiscal year of a biennium:
  ' (a) Eighty percent of all moneys available for making grants
under this section is reserved for grants to be made pursuant to
subsection (1)(a) of this section; and
  ' (b) Twenty percent of all moneys available for making grants
under this section is reserved for grants to be made pursuant to
subsection (1)(b) of this section.
  ' (3) The department may prioritize grants to be made under
this section based on established targets for regional
allocations.
  ' (4) Public owners of regionally significant industrial sites
or public entities that have entered into development agreements
or other agreements with private owners with respect to
regionally significant industrial sites may apply to participate
in the program by submitting an application in writing in a form
prescribed by the department by rule.
  ' (5) The department shall establish by rule criteria and
standards for successful applicants under the program. At a
minimum, the applicant must demonstrate that:
  ' (a) For grants made under subsection (1)(a) of this section:
  ' (A) The applicant has obtained a willing property owner;
  ' (B) The applicant has received the support of the region in
which the regionally significant industrial site is located, or
the regionally significant industrial site is located in an area
that has been designated a regionally significant industrial area
as defined in ORS 197.722;
  ' (C) The regionally significant industrial site is not
currently market-ready and has not been certified by the
department as ready for development within six months or less as
of the date on which the application is submitted; and
  ' (D) The applicant can provide matching funds in an amount to
be determined by the department.
  ' (b) For grants made under subsection (1)(b) of this section:
  ' (A) The applicant is committed and has the ability to perform
regional industrial land inventories for a specific region;
  ' (B) The applicant is committed and has the ability to
prioritize regionally significant industrial sites in a region
for due diligence assessment and site preparation funding; and
  ' (C) The applicant can provide matching funds in an amount to
be determined by the department.
  ' (6) Grants made under subsection (1)(a) of this section may
not exceed $100,000 per site. Grants made under subsection (1)(b)
of this section may not exceed $50,000 per region. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 4. + }  { + The Oregon Industrial Site
Readiness Assessment Program Fund is established in the State
Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The Oregon
Industrial Site Readiness Assessment Program Fund consists of
amounts deposited in the fund and other moneys transferred to the
fund. Amounts in the fund are continuously appropriated to the
Oregon Business Development Department for the purposes of making
grants under section 3 of this 2013 Act and to implement and
administer sections 1 to 4 of this 2013 Act. Interest earned on
the fund shall be deposited into the fund. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 5. + }  { + The Legislative Assembly finds that
the implementation and administration of the Oregon Industrial
Site Readiness Assessment Program under sections 1 to 4 of this
2013 Act will further economic development by facilitating the
development of regionally significant industrial sites that are
market-ready in this state. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 6. + }  { + There is allocated for the biennium
beginning July 1, 2013, from the Administrative Services Economic
Development Fund, to the Oregon Business Development Department,
the amount of $___ for the purposes of section 3 of this 2013
Act. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 7. + }  { + The Oregon Business Development
Department shall report on the Oregon Industrial Site Readiness
Assessment Program to the committees of the Seventy-eighth
Legislative Assembly with authority over the subject area of
economic development during the 2015 regular session. + }
  '  { +  SECTION 8. + }  { + This 2013 Act being necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and
safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2013 Act
takes effect on its passage. + } ' .
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