ORS 536.025: Duty of commission; delegation to Water Resources Director; exception.

Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07

(1) It is the function of the Water Resources Commission to establish the policies for the operation of the Water Resources Department in a manner consistent with the policies and purposes of ORS 196.600 to 196.921, 537.525, 541.010 to 541.320, 541.386, 541.430 to 541.545 and 541.700 to 541.990 and ORS chapters 536 to 540, 542 and 543. In addition, the commission shall perform any other duty vested in it by law. (2) Except for the commission’s power to adopt rules, the commission may delegate to the Water Resources Director the exercise or discharge in the commission’s name of any power, duty or function of whatever character, vested in or imposed by law upon the commission. The official act of the director acting in the commission’s name and by the commission’s authority shall be considered to be an official act of the commission. (3) The commission may delegate to the director the authority to conduct a public hearing relating to the adoption or amendment of a basin program as provided in ORS 536.300. However, the commission may not delegate to the director the authority to adopt or amend a basin program. [1985 c.673 §4]

Administrative rules citing this section

OAR 690-001-0000: Notice — authority
OAR 690-001-0005: Uniform and Model Rules of Procedure, Adoption — authority
OAR 690-002-0005: Applicability — authority
OAR 690-002-0010: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-002-0023: Agency Representation by Officer or Employee — authority
OAR 690-002-0025: Time for Filing Protests for Protests Not Governed by OAR 690-002-0005(2) — authority
OAR 690-002-0030: Form and Content of Protest for Protests Not Governed by OAR 690-002-0005(2) — authority
OAR 690-002-0075: Scope of Hearing for Hearings Not Governed by OAR 690-002-0005(2) — authority
OAR 690-002-0081: Contact Information — authority
OAR 690-002-0085: Method of Filing and Service After Referral — authority
OAR 690-002-0089: Consolidation of Proceedings — authority
OAR 690-002-0175: Exceptions to Proposed Orders of the Administrative Law Judge — authority
OAR 690-002-0190: Exceptions to Final Orders of the Director — authority
OAR 690-002-0200: Pre-referral Notice — authority
OAR 690-002-0230: Notification of protests received — authority
OAR 690-014-0005: Introduction — authority
OAR 690-014-0020: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-014-0030: Certified Water Right Examiner Required for Claim of Beneficial Use — authority
OAR 690-014-0050: Certification of Water Right Examiners — authority
OAR 690-014-0080: Revocation of Certified Water Right Examiner's Certificate — authority
OAR 690-014-0090: Maps for Transfer Applications — authority
OAR 690-014-0100: Minimum Requirements for Claims of Beneficial Use for Permits and Transfer Final Orders — authority
OAR 690-014-0110: Claim of Beneficial Use: General Standards — authority
OAR 690-014-0170: Minimum Requirements for Maps for Permit or Transfer Final Order Claims of Beneficial Use — authority
OAR 690-014-0190: Time Limit for Filing Claim of Beneficial Use — authority
OAR 690-014-0220: Time Limit to Cure Defects in a Claim of Beneficial Use — authority
OAR 690-017-0005: Introduction — authority
OAR 690-017-0010: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-017-0100: Cancellation Authorized by Record Owner — authority
OAR 690-017-0200: Watermaster Affidavit of Inability to Appropriate or Beneficially Use Water — authority
OAR 690-017-0300: Notice of Watermaster Affidavit to Record Owner — authority
OAR 690-017-0400: Cancellation Initiated by Department — authority
OAR 690-017-0600: Protest of Cancellation/Statement of Intent to Rebut Presumption of Forfeiture — authority
OAR 690-017-0700: Cancellation Hearing — authority
OAR 690-017-0800: Grounds for and Manner of Rebutting a Presumption of Forfeiture — authority
OAR 690-017-0900: Time Period of Non-Use — authority
OAR 690-018-0010: Purpose and Applicability — authority
OAR 690-018-0012: Allocation Formula and Process — authority
OAR 690-018-0014: Timing of applications — authority
OAR 690-018-0020: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-018-0025: District Requirements — authority
OAR 690-018-0040: Application Requirements — authority
OAR 690-018-0050: Processing a Conservation Application and Approval of a Conservation Project — authority
OAR 690-018-0062: Completion of Conservation Project and Testing Period — authority
OAR 690-018-0065: Finalization of Conservation Project — authority
OAR 690-018-0080: Management of Conserved Water — authority
OAR 690-018-0090: Change in Use of Conserved Water — authority
OAR 690-022-0020: Purpose and Statutory Authority — authority
OAR 690-022-0025: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-022-0030: Applicability and Preference — authority
OAR 690-033-0000: Purpose — authority
OAR 690-033-0010: Definitions for the purposes of Chapter 690, Division 33 — authority
OAR 690-033-0115: Upper Columbia Rules (Above Bonneville Dam): Geographic Scope — authority
OAR 690-033-0140: Upper Columbia Rules (Above Bonneville Dam): Exemptions — authority
OAR 690-033-0210: Lower Columbia Rules (Below Bonneville Dam): Geographic Scope — authority
OAR 690-033-0310: Statewide Rules: Geographic Scope — authority
OAR 690-033-0320: Statewide Rules: Rule Review — authority
OAR 690-033-0330: Statewide Rules: Review of Proposed Water Use — authority
OAR 690-033-0340: Statewide Rules: Public Interest Review Presumption — authority
OAR 690-051-0020: Projects to be Considered by the Commission — authority
OAR 690-051-0040: Preliminary Permit not Required — authority
OAR 690-051-0050: Applications: Filing Procedure — authority
OAR 690-051-0080: Application of Standards to Preliminary Permits — authority
OAR 690-051-0090: Applications for Minor Projects: Contents, Scope of Evaluation and Application of Standards — authority
OAR 690-051-0095: Applications for Major Projects: Scope of Evaluation and Application of Standards — authority
OAR 690-051-0130: Hearings Requirements for Preliminary Permits, Licenses and Permits; Notice of Hearings — authority
OAR 690-051-0140: Time and Place of Hearings — authority
OAR 690-051-0170: Protection of Designated Resource Areas and Special Management Areas — authority
OAR 690-051-0180: Mitigation, No Net Loss — authority
OAR 690-051-0190: Water Resources — authority
OAR 690-051-0200: Fish Resources — authority
OAR 690-051-0210: Wildlife — authority
OAR 690-051-0220: Plant Life — authority
OAR 690-051-0230: Recreation — authority
OAR 690-051-0240: Hist.: Cultural and Archaeological Resources — authority
OAR 690-051-0250: Land Resources — authority
OAR 690-051-0280: Need for Power — authority
OAR 690-051-0290: Consolidated Review — authority
OAR 690-051-0300: Interim Orders — authority
OAR 690-051-0320: Competing Applications — authority
OAR 690-051-0350: Minor Projects, Waiver of Provisions of Act Where the Licensee is Not a Public Utility — authority
OAR 690-051-0380: Water Rights — authority
OAR 690-051-0390: Failure to Construct Project or Utilize Water — authority
OAR 690-051-0400: Application Filing Fees — authority
OAR 690-051-0410: Agreements Between Municipal and Private Applicants — authority
OAR 690-077-0000: Purpose — authority
OAR 690-077-0010: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-077-0015: General Statements — implements
OAR 690-077-0015: General Statements — authority
OAR 690-077-0019: State Agency Instream Water Right Applications: Process for Instream Water Right Certificate Requests — authority
OAR 690-077-0020: State Agency Instream Water Right Applications: Application Requirements — authority
OAR 690-077-0029: Application Processing: Initial Review — authority
OAR 690-077-0031: Application Processing: Public Notice and Comments — authority
OAR 690-077-0033: Application Processing: Public Interest Presumption — authority
OAR 690-077-0037: Application Processing: Public Interest Review — authority
OAR 690-077-0039: Application Processing: Proposed Final Order — authority
OAR 690-077-0043: Application Processing: Protests and Conduct of Contested Case; Final Orders on Default when No Protest Filed — authority
OAR 690-077-0047: Application Processing: Final Orders — authority
OAR 690-077-0048: Application Processing: Final Public Interest Determination — authority
OAR 690-077-0049: Application Processing: Statement of Findings — authority
OAR 690-077-0051: Application Processing: Contested Case Hearing on Final Order that Modifies Proposed Final Order — authority
OAR 690-077-0052: Application Processing: Time Requirements — authority
OAR 690-077-0053: Application Processing: Issuance of Instream Water Right Certificate — authority
OAR 690-077-0054: Conversion of Minimum Perennial Streamflows to Instream Water Rights — authority
OAR 690-077-0075: Processing an Instream Transfer Application — implements
OAR 690-077-0075: Processing an Instream Transfer Application — authority
OAR 690-077-0076: Application for an Instream Lease — authority
OAR 690-077-0079: Split Season Use Instream Leasing — authority
OAR 690-079-0010: Purpose — authority
OAR 690-079-0020: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-079-0080: Copies of Reservation Request — authority
OAR 690-079-0100: Review by Director — authority
OAR 690-079-0110: Appeal of Director’s Decision — authority
OAR 690-079-0120: Contested Case Proceeding — authority
OAR 690-086-0900: Water Management and Conservation Plan Review, Approval, and Enforcement — authority
OAR 690-310-0060: Permits for Livestock Watering Outside of Riparian Areas (SB 150, 1989); Fees — authority
OAR 690-310-0090: Public Notice and Comments — authority
OAR 690-315-0010: Purpose and Definitions — authority
OAR 690-315-0020: Application for Extension of Time for Other Than Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Water Use Permits — authority
OAR 690-315-0030: Application for Extension of Time to Begin Construction on Storage Projects — authority
OAR 690-315-0040: Criteria for Department Review of Extension Applications for Other Than Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Water Use Permits — authority
OAR 690-315-0050: Department Action on Extension Applications — authority
OAR 690-315-0060: Proposed Final Order Hearing Rights — authority
OAR 690-315-0070: Application for Extension of Time for Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Water Use Permits — authority
OAR 690-315-0080: Criteria for Department Review of Extension Applications for Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Water Use Permits — authority
OAR 690-315-0090: Time of Extensions and Additional Development of Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Water Use Permits — authority
OAR 690-315-0100: Department Action on Extension Applications by Holders of Municipal Water Supply Permits — authority
OAR 690-320-0010: Extension of Time Limits — authority
OAR 690-320-0020: Cancellation of Permit — authority
OAR 690-320-0040: Incremental Perfection of a Municipal Water Right — authority
OAR 690-320-0060: Assignment or Change of Ownership of a Permit or Groundwater Registration — authority
OAR 690-330-0010: Proof of Appropriation — authority
OAR 690-330-0020: Request for Reconsideration of the Contents of a Proposed Certificate — authority
OAR 690-330-0040: Primary and Supplemental Rights — authority
OAR 690-350-0110: Artificial Groundwater Recharge (AR) Definitions — authority
OAR 690-350-0120: Artificial Groundwater Recharge (AR) Applications - Supplemental Information Requirements; Permit Conditions — authority
OAR 690-350-0130: Secondary Groundwater Permits for Use of Artificially Recharged Waters (AR); Supplemental Information Requirements; Limitations; Conditions — authority
OAR 690-380-0010: Purpose — authority
OAR 690-380-0090: Applicability — authority
OAR 690-380-0100: Definitions — authority
OAR 690-380-2000: Types of Permanent Transfers — authority
OAR 690-380-2110: Change in Point of Diversion or Point of Appropriation — authority
OAR 690-380-2120: Change in Point of Diversion to Reflect Historical Use — authority
OAR 690-380-2130: Change from a Surface Water Point of Diversion to a Groundwater Appropriation — authority
OAR 690-380-2200: Changes in Place of Use — authority
OAR 690-380-2240: Layered Water Rights and Certificates of Registration — authority
OAR 690-380-2250: Transfer of Supplemental Water Right or Permit — authority
OAR 690-380-2260: Exchanges of Water — authority
OAR 690-380-2300: Changes in Character of Use — authority
OAR 690-380-2320: Transfer from Supplemental Use to Primary Use — authority
OAR 690-380-2330: Substitution of Supplemental Groundwater Right for Primary Surface Water Right — authority
OAR 690-380-2340: Specific-to-General Industrial Water Use Change — authority
OAR 690-380-2410: Municipal Water Rights — authority
OAR 690-380-2420: Notice of Merger, Consolidation or Formation of a Water Authority — authority
OAR 690-380-2430: Acquisition of Water Rights by a Water Authority — authority
OAR 690-380-3000: Application for Transfer — authority
OAR 690-380-3050: Additional Application Requirements — authority
OAR 690-380-3100: Map Requirements — authority
OAR 690-380-3200: District May Submit Application for Water Users — authority
OAR 690-380-3220: Separate Application Required for Each Water Right — authority
OAR 690-380-3400: Waiver of Fees — authority
OAR 690-380-3410: Waiver of Mapping Requirements — authority
OAR 690-380-4000: Initial Review — authority
OAR 690-380-4005: Request for Comments — authority
OAR 690-380-4010: Proposed Final Order — authority
OAR 690-380-4020: Notice of Proposed Final Order — authority
OAR 690-380-4030: Protests and Hearings — authority
OAR 690-380-4200: Hearings — authority
OAR 690-380-5000: Approval of Transfers — authority
OAR 690-380-5030: Approval of Injurious Transfers — authority
OAR 690-380-5040: Affidavits of Consent — authority
OAR 690-380-5050: Consent to Injury of Instream Water Rights — authority
OAR 690-380-5060: Fish Screening and By-Pass Devices — authority
OAR 690-380-5100: Compatibility with Acknowledged Comprehensive Plans — authority
OAR 690-380-5110: Original Right Terminated — authority
OAR 690-380-5120: Multiple Primary Water Rights on the Same Lands — authority
OAR 690-380-5130: Assignment or Change of Ownership — authority
OAR 690-380-5140: Time for Completion — authority
OAR 690-380-6010: Failure to Complete a Transfer as Grounds for Cancellation — authority
OAR 690-380-6020: Extension of Time — authority
OAR 690-380-6030: Proof Of Use — authority
OAR 690-380-6040: Proof of Completion of Change — authority
OAR 690-380-6050: Waiver of Proof of Completion — authority
OAR 690-380-6060: Petition for Reconsideration — authority
OAR 690-380-7000: Types of Permit Amendments — authority
OAR 690-380-7010: Change in Point of Diversion or Appropriation — authority
OAR 690-380-7020: Change from Surface Water Point of Diversion to a Groundwater Appropriation — authority
OAR 690-380-7030: Change in Place of Use — authority
OAR 690-380-7100: Permit Amendment Application Requirements — authority
OAR 690-380-7110: Permit Amendment on Behalf of a Public Corporation — authority
OAR 690-380-7200: Notice of Permit Amendment — authority
OAR 690-380-7300: Permit Amendment Final Order — authority
OAR 690-380-8000: Temporary Transfers — authority
OAR 690-380-8002: Temporary Transfer Applications under OAR 690-380-8000(1) — authority
OAR 690-380-8003: Renewal of a Previously Approved Temporary Transfer Application under OAR 690-380-8000(1) — authority
OAR 690-380-8004: Temporary Transfer Applications under OAR 690-380-8000(2) — authority
OAR 690-380-8010: Seasonal Use — authority
OAR 690-380-8020: Supplemental Water Rights — authority
OAR 690-382-0010: Purpose — authority
OAR 690-382-0100: Definitions — authority

This rule cites

ORS 196.600 — resolved
196.921 — resolved
537.525 — resolved
541.010 — resolved
541.320 — resolved
541.386 — resolved
541.430 — resolved
541.545 — resolved
541.700 — resolved
541.990 — resolved
ORS 536.300 — resolved

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Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors536.html