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1	First Name	Last Name	Email	Organization	State	Comment	How was the comment submitted?
2	Arnold	Meier	arnmaryjo@aol.com	CPA	(Not Provided)	Makes sense to me! Lets increase fees so we can increase our government bureaucracy. If you did your jobs properly you wouldn't need more money.	Website
3	robert	van creveld	robert@edgewaternw.com	Edgewater NW	oregon	I object to yet another fee increase. Current fees are very high. I do not understand the logic of saying that this is to cover the increased cost of providing service. How has that cost increased? Is it because state employees got a raise?Or is PERS pinching the budget? Nobody else got a raise in the last several years. Pushing PERS expenses onto the permitted population is unfair as well. This is inflationary policy. There is simply no justification. The workload does not seem to have increased over the workload five years ago. While I respect the work of DEQ water quality staff. I do not believe that another fee increase is justified.	Website
4	Carl	Patenode	city.admin@cityofdrain.org	City of Drain	OR	Douglas County still has one of the most depressed economies in the state. Almost 70% of Drain citizens are without jobs or living on a fixed income.The city cannot absorb higher DEQ fees and must pass these fee increases onto the customers.	Website
5	Thomas	Harmon	tharmon@harmoncc.com	(Not Provided)	Oregon	I see no justification for the proposed fees. DEQ doesn't really provide a service unless requiring a permit and collecting fees is a service. I believe that DEQ should look at reducing expense to land owners and businesses and find ways to reduce cost to citizens and not increase the burden on them. I would like to see an itemization of the proposed cost, I am assuming that the bulk of the increase is in increased salaries. This is not a time to be increasing cost. Please reconsider your request for a fee increase and find ways to function within the revenue you currently have.	Website
6	John	Orueta	jjo84594@gmail.com	Ana Reservoir RV Park LLC	OR	On approximately 7-17-13 I contacted your office in regards to the proposed rate increase. I am submitting this for consideration. Ana Reservoir RV Park is located in Summer Lake Oregon in a very remote part of Lake County. We provide an extremely clean and safe environment for travelers and sportsmen alike. Ana Reservoir RV Park provides basic amenities to campers, water, power and a limited number of sewer connections. Because of the remoteness of our location our business is minimal, except for hunting season. Business expenses are always at a break-even point. With insurance, electricity, propane and DEQ being our major providers. The one last thing I need is to have an ad hoc rate increase by anyone. We currently pay $350.00 per year to DEQ for our ACD fee. I would like to see DEQ more responsive to their customers and review locations and utilization, which can be found by reviewing the Oregon State Lodging Tax we pay quarterly, as a means of determining fees for our business. This,to me, would be a farer way, instead of imposing an across the board rate hike, especially on the marginal businesses. Thank You. John Orueta	Website
7	Michael	Maas	facilitymgr@thesfi.org	Siskiyou Field Institute	Oregon	I am Facility Manager for Siskiyou Field Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution. I oversee the functioning of a Quasi-Municipal water treatment system. Our organization struggles to pay our expenses, as education of the public is not a money-making proposition. Every dollar we have to pay in fees and permits subtracts from the resources we can use to fulfill our mission of education. I urge those responsible for overseeing the rule-making process to exempt small 501(c)(3) organizations from further fee increases. Michael Maas, Facility Manager, Siskiyou Field Institute, Deer Creek Center, 1241 Illinois River Road, Selma, Or 97538 541-597-8530, PWS id 4195360	Website
8	Don	Stonebrink	donalds@hughes.net	(Not Provided)	(Not Provided)	Chris , I am writing about the increase of permits of 2.9 percent why don't you people learn to live with what you get now cut back like every one in private life we can not just pass on cost of things we have to live with out or cut costs . We farmers don't have a farm bill so we can know what to plan for and congress just take a 5 week break and we have to have permits for every thing we do now when is government going to cut out a lot of the stuff so we can make a living again .	Email
9	Janet	Gillaspie	gillaspie@oracwa.org	Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies	OR	The League of Oregon Cities, Special Districts Association of Oregon and the Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies have participated in the DEQ Blue Ribbon Committee since its inception. The Blue Ribbon Committee agreement included an agreed to 60:40 funding split between state dollars and permit fees and committed the Department to meet specific work targets for critical items. In return, the water quality permit community agreed to support annual fee increases, not to exceed 3%. Our organizations support the 2.9% fee increase. Our organizations represent all domestic wastewater treatment and municipal stormwater collection systems affected by these proposed increases. However, we do so somewhat reluctantly. As you know, the fee increase commitment was contingent on a number of work products from the Department, including specific metrics for inspection targets, permit renewal, transitioning to a watershed permitting cycle, permit backlog reduction, DMR review, and other deliverables.   Information on the Department’s web site reflects that none of the targets set in the Blue Ribbon report are being met as of the fourth quarter of 2012 - - the last report available. For instance, only 34% of the major water quality permits are current, and although the review of Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs) has improved, only 80% are reviewed in the targeted 30 days; the goal is 100%. Only 44% of the targeted 95% of water quality permits are being issued on a watershed cycle and no preapplication conferences have been held in 2012. We continue to be interested in the longer range issues associated with ‘right sizing’ the DEQ water quality program and finding adequate funding for an effective, efficient program focused on protecting Oregon’s rivers and streams.	Email
10	Tracy	Rutten	(Not Provided)	League of Oregon Cities	OR	(Joint letter - see Janet Gillapie comment)	Email
11	Mark	Landauer	(Not Provided)	Special Districts Association of Oregon	OR	(Joint letter - see Janet Gillapie comment)	Email