(1) The Department of Environmental Quality shall develop and implement a comprehensive statewide program to identify any release or threat of release from a facility that may require remedial action.

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(2) The department shall notify all daily and weekly newspapers of general circulation in the state and all broadcast media of the program developed under subsection (1) of this section. The notice shall include information about how the public may provide information on a release or threat of release from a facility.

(3) In developing the program under subsection (1) of this section, the department shall examine, at a minimum, any industrial or commercial activity that historically has been a major source in this state of releases of hazardous substances.

(4) The department shall include information about the implementation and progress of the program developed under subsection (1) of this section in the report required under ORS § 465.235. [Formerly 466.560]