Lane Shetterly, the director of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development, provided the following testimony to the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Natural Resources on May 31, 2007:

"The anticipated question is worth making clear, since there been some discussion about it. There is nothing in HB 3540 that requires that a claim that has been filed be refiled. We're prepared to act on pending claims based on the claim that has been filed, so that when we send notice to claimants who have already filed claims, either already approved or pending, what we will be asking them would be to make a choice between either the express path relief or whether they intend to pursue the conditional path. We will not be asking them to file a new claim. We will have enough information for most claim review, to the extent that their choice for one path or the other in a specific instance requires information that is not in the claim that they have submitted, we would request additional claims information so that we can process that, but no one will have to refile a claim who has already filed."