Oregon State Sanitary Authority
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Oregon State Sanitary Authority
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The Oregon State Sanitary Authority (OSSA) was the first agency in the U.S. state of Oregon that was charged with protecting the environment. In 1938, Oregon voters, by a three-to-one margin, approved an initiative to regulate water pollution and to create an enforcement agency under the jurisdiction of the Oregon State Board of Health. Political pressure that led to the initiative had begun as early as the 1920s, when the Board of Health, the U.S. Public Health Service, the Izaak Walton League,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_Sanitary_Authority
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2024-03-18T14:01:08Z
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