Oregon Solid Waste Program

The Solid Waste Program of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) issues solid waste disposal site permits, waste tire carrier permits, waste tire storage site permits, beneficial use determinations and certain permit exemptions. Since June 17, 2025 the program's permits have been handled in Your DEQ Online.

In a Phase I ESA

DEQ's solid waste permit records are the Oregon form of the state landfill and solid waste disposal site records that ASTM E1527-21 lists as a standard source. The general reading of a landfill listing is on the landfills and solid waste page. Five Oregon details shape the search.

• A disposal site permit is not only a landfill permit. DEQ lists the kinds of disposal site permit: composting or anaerobic digestion facility, conversion technology facility, landfill, incineration or energy recovery facility, sludge lagoon, solid waste treatment facility, sludge land application site, and a group that takes in transfer stations, material recovery facilities, household hazardous waste collection facilities and limited sort facilities. There is also a Solid Waste Letter Authorization for short-term projects only. Read the facility type before treating a listing as a landfill.
• The search DEQ points to is of current permits. DEQ says to search for current DEQ Solid Waste Permitted Facilities in Your DEQ Online's public records. The pages read name no list of closed landfills or of dumps that never had a permit.
• A landfill with a release can also be a cleanup site. DEQ's cleanup program says it enters a landfill permitted under the Solid Waste program in its own tracking system if contaminants that could threaten human health or the environment migrate beyond the landfill boundaries, or site issues otherwise exceed the Solid Waste program's regulatory authority. Search a landfill in the cleanup records too; see the Environmental Cleanup Site Information database page.
• Orphan landfills and dumps have a fund. The Solid Waste Orphan Site Account pays for investigation and cleanup at solid waste disposal sites with known or suspected hazardous substance releases, including landfills owned or operated by local governments and private sites such as illegal dump sites or privately owned landfills. See the Orphan Program page.
• Some waste handling is exempt or approved for reuse. DEQ takes applications for disposal site permit exemptions and for beneficial use determinations. Its Your DEQ Online page for the program links documents titled Clean Fill Determinations Guidance and Clean Fill Screening Level Tables under the exemption application. They were not read for this page.

What the record shows

DEQ posts user guides for the applications, reports and notifications that solid waste permit holders submit through Your DEQ Online. Their titles include:

• a Site Characterization Report, for landfill permit applications and for other disposal sites;
• an Environmental Monitoring Report;
• an Annual Site Evaluation Report;
• a Closure Deed Notification;
• a Financial Assurance Annual Report;
• annual and quarterly disposal reports for municipal solid waste facilities and industrial solid waste facilities, and a Construction and Demolition Landfill Report.

The guides themselves were not read for this page. For a landfill near a property, ask for the environmental monitoring reports by that name.

Where to look a site up

• The Your DEQ Online public records page, which DEQ gives as the place to search current solid waste permitted facilities.
• DEQ's regional solid waste permit coordinators: Eastern Region, 541-298-7257 and DEQER.SolidWastePermitCoordinator@deq.oregon.gov; Northwest Region, 503-229-5353 and DEQNWR.SolidWastePermitCoordinator@deq.oregon.gov; Western Region, 541-687-7465 and DEQWR.SolidWastePermitCoordinator@deq.oregon.gov. The toll-free number within Oregon is 1-800-452-4011.

Getting the file

DEQ says Your DEQ Online gives access to public records to find permit documents and other published information. For records that are not published there, the route is described on the Your DEQ Online and public records requests page.

Sources

Oregon Department of Environmental Quality pages, read October 7, 2026, no modified date shown:

• Solid Waste Program
• Solid Waste Program in Your DEQ Online
• Programs participating in Your DEQ Online
• Environmental Cleanup Information Database
• Solid Waste Orphan Site Account