Dry Cleaner Program

The 1995 Oregon Legislature established a dry cleaner environmental program. In exchange for liability relief from cleanups and cleanup costs, dry cleaners pay fees that go into a fund used to clean up solvent contamination at dry cleaner sites. The law protects dry cleaners, under specified circumstances, from individually having to pay for environmental damage caused by the use of dry cleaning solvents at their establishments.

Program Overview

• Introduction
• Oregon’s Dry Cleaning Industry
• Implementing the Dry Cleaner Program
• Impediments Affecting Statute Implementation
• Preventing Future Contamination
• Environmental Response Account
• Program Funding
• Advisory Committee
• Fact Sheets
• Forms

Other Sites of Interest

• Proposed Rulemaking: Adoption of Federal Air Quality Regulations
• Laws and Regulations (see link above):
  • ORS 465.500
  • OAR 340-124
• State Coalition for Remediation of Drycleaners
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  • Stoddard Solvent Fact Sheet
  • Perchloroethylene (Tetrachloroethylene) Fact Sheet

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