(Salem, OR) -- More locally produced meat will be available because of a nine-million-dollar program approved by the Legislature. Oregon is the first state on the West Coast to have its own meat inspection program approved by the federal government. Ranchers were facing 18-month wait times to process livestock and the local inspection program reduces that delay. The Meating Place in Hillsboro is the state's first slaughter facility under Oregon's State Meat Inspection Program. It processes farm-to-fork meat within a 20-mile radius.