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70A.145.040 | Contracts to provide for facilities and services. | A city, town, or county may contract with purveyors for the provision of fire suppression water facilities, services, or both. The contract may take the form of a franchise agreement, an interlocal agreement pursuant to chapter 39.34 RCW, or an agreement under other contracting authority, and may provide for funding or... |
70A.145.050 | Payment by counties. | A county is not required to pay for fire suppression water facilities or services except: (1) As a customer of a purveyor; (2) in areas where a county is acting as a purveyor; or (3) where a county has agreed to do so consistent with RCW 70A.145.040 .
[ 2020 c 20 s 1431 ; 2013 c 127 s 5 . Formerly RCW 70.315.050 .] |
70A.145.060 | Liability protection for fire suppression water facilities and services. | (1) A purveyor that is a municipal corporation is not liable for any damages that arise out of a fire event and relate to the operation, maintenance, and provision of fire suppression water facilities and services that are located within or outside its corporate boundaries. (2) A purveyor that is not a municipal corpor... |
70A.145.900 | Liberal construction. | This chapter is exempted from the rule of strict construction and must be liberally construed to give full effect to the objectives and purposes for which it was enacted.
[ 2013 c 127 s 7 . Formerly RCW 70.315.900 .] |
70A.145.901 | Powers conferred by chapter are supplemental. | (1) The powers and authority conferred by this chapter are supplemental to powers and authority conferred by other law, and nothing contained in this chapter may be construed as limiting any other powers or authority of any municipal corporation or other entity under applicable law. (2) As to water companies that are r... |
70A.145.902 | Ratification of prior acts. | To the extent that they provide for or address funding, cost allocation, and recovery of fire suppression water facilities and services, all ordinances, resolutions, and contracts adopted, entered, implemented, or performed prior to July 28, 2013, are hereby validated, ratified, and confirmed. This chapter must not aff... |
70A.200.010 | Legislative findings. | (1) The legislature finds: (a) Washington state is experiencing rapid population growth and its citizens are increasingly mobile; (b) There is a fundamental need for a healthful, clean, and beautiful environment; (c) The proliferation and accumulation of litter discarded throughout this state impairs this need and cons... |
70A.200.020 | Declaration of purpose. | (1) The purpose of this chapter is to accomplish litter control, increase waste reduction, and stimulate all components of recycling and composting throughout this state by delegating to the department of ecology the authority to: (a) Conduct a permanent and continuous program to control and remove litter from this sta... |
70A.200.030 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Conveyance" means a boat, airplane, or vehicle. (2) "Department" means the department of ecology. (3) "Director" means the director of the department of ecology. (4) "Disposable package or container" means ... |
70A.200.040 | Administrative procedure act—Application to chapter. | In addition to his or her other powers and duties, the director shall have the power to propose and to adopt pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions, purposes, and intent of this chapter.
[ 2012 c 117 s 404 ; 1971 ex.s. c 307 s 4 . Formerly RCW 70.93.040 .] |
70A.200.050 | Enforcement of chapter. | The director shall designate trained employees of the department to be vested with police powers to enforce and administer the provisions of this chapter and all rules adopted thereunder. The director shall also have authority to contract with other state and local governmental agencies having law enforcement capabilit... |
70A.200.060 | Littering prohibited—Penalties—Litter cleanup restitution payment. | (1) It is a violation of this section to: (a) Abandon a junk vehicle upon any property; (b) Throw, drop, deposit, discard, or otherwise dispose of litter upon any public property in the state or upon private property in this state not owned by him or her or in the waters of this state whether from a vehicle or otherwis... |
70A.200.070 | Collection of fines and forfeitures. | The director may prescribe the procedures for the collection of penalties, costs, and other charges allowed by chapter 7.80 RCW for violations of this chapter.
[ 1996 c 263 s 2 ; 1993 c 292 s 2 ; 1983 c 277 s 2 ; 1971 ex.s. c 307 s 7 . Formerly RCW 70.93.070 .] |
70A.200.080 | Notice to public—Contents of chapter—Required. | Pertinent portions of this chapter shall be posted along the public highways of this state and in all campgrounds and trailer parks, at all entrances to state parks, forestlands, and recreational areas, at all public beaches, and at other public places in this state where persons are likely to be informed of the existe... |
70A.200.090 | Litter receptacles—Use of anti-litter symbol—Distribution—Placement—Violations—Penalties. | The department shall design and the director shall adopt by rule or regulation one or more types of litter receptacles which are reasonably uniform as to size, shape, capacity and color, for wide and extensive distribution throughout the public places of this state. Each such litter receptacle shall bear an anti-litter... |
70A.200.100 | Official gatherings and sports facilities—Recycling. | In communities where there is an established curbside service and where recycling service is available to businesses, a recycling program must be provided at every official gathering and at every sports facility by the vendors who sell beverages in single-use aluminum, glass, or plastic bottles or cans. A recycling pro... |
70A.200.110 | Marinas and airports—Recycling. | (1) Each marina with thirty or more slips and each airport providing regularly scheduled commercial passenger service shall provide adequate recycling receptacles on, or adjacent to, its facility. The receptacles shall be clearly marked for the disposal of at least two of the following recyclable materials: Aluminum, g... |
70A.200.120 | Transported waste must be covered or secured. | (1) By January 1, 1994, each county or city with a staffed transfer station or landfill in its jurisdiction shall adopt an ordinance to reduce litter from vehicles. The ordinance shall require the operator of a vehicle transporting solid waste to a staffed transfer station or landfill to secure or cover the vehicle's w... |
70A.200.130 | Removal of litter—Responsibility. | Responsibility for the removal of litter from receptacles placed at parks, beaches, campgrounds, trailer parks, and other public places shall remain upon those state and local agencies performing litter removal. Removal of litter from litter receptacles placed on private property which is used by the public shall remai... |
70A.200.140 | Waste reduction, recycling, and litter control account—Distribution. | (1) There is hereby created an account within the state treasury to be known as the waste reduction, recycling, and litter control account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the waste reduction, recycling, and litter control account shall be used as follows: (a) Forty percen... |
70A.200.150 | Department of ecology—Administration of anti-litter and recycling programs. | In addition to the foregoing, the department of ecology shall use the moneys from RCW 70A.200.140 of the waste reduction, recycling, and litter control account to: (1) Serve as the coordinating agency between the various industry organizations seeking to aid in the waste reduction, anti-litter, recycling, and compostin... |
70A.200.160 | Waste reduction, anti-litter, and recycling campaign—Industrial cooperation requested. | To aid in the statewide waste reduction, anti-litter, and recycling campaign, the state legislature requests that the payers of the waste reduction, recycling, and litter control tax and the various industry organizations which are active in waste reduction, anti-litter, and recycling efforts provide active cooperation... |
70A.200.170 | Litter collection programs—Department of ecology—Coordinating agency—Use of funds—Reporting by agencies. | (1) The department is the coordinating and administrative agency working with the departments of natural resources, revenue, transportation, and corrections, and the parks and recreation commission in developing a biennial budget request for funds for the various agencies' litter collection programs. (2) Funds may be u... |
70A.200.180 | Violations of chapter—Penalties. | Every person convicted of a violation of this chapter for which no penalty is specially provided for shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each such violation.
[ 1983 c 277 s 4 ; 1971 ex.s. c 307 s 23 . Formerly RCW 70.93.230 .] |
70A.200.190 | Funding to local governments—Reports. | (1) The department shall provide funding to local units of government to establish, conduct, and evaluate community restitution and other programs for waste reduction, litter and illegal dump cleanup, and recycling. Programs eligible for funding under this section shall include, but not be limited to, programs establis... |
70A.200.900 | Alternative to Initiative 40—Placement on ballot—Force and effect of chapter. | This 1971 amendatory act constitutes an alternative to Initiative 40. The secretary of state is directed to place this 1971 amendatory act on the ballot in conjunction with Initiative 40 at the next general election. This 1971 amendatory act shall continue in force and effect until the secretary of state certifies the ... |
70A.205.005 | Legislative finding—Priorities—Goals. | The legislature finds: (1) Continuing technological changes in methods of manufacture, packaging, and marketing of consumer products, together with the economic and population growth of this state, the rising affluence of its citizens, and its expanding industrial activity have created new and ever-mounting problems in... |
70A.205.007 | Landfill disposal of organic materials—Goal. | (1)(a) The state establishes a goal for the landfill disposal of organic materials at a level representing a 75 percent reduction by 2030 in the statewide disposal of organic material waste, relative to 2015 levels. (b) The state establishes a goal that no less than 20 percent of the volume of edible food that was disp... |
70A.205.010 | Purpose. | The purpose of this chapter is to establish a comprehensive statewide program for solid waste handling, and solid waste recovery and/or recycling which will prevent land, air, and water pollution and conserve the natural, economic, and energy resources of this state. To this end it is the purpose of this chapter: (1) T... |
70A.205.015 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "City" means every incorporated city and town. (2) "Commission" means the utilities and transportation commission. (3) "Composted material" means organic solid waste that has been subjected to controlled aer... |
70A.205.020 | Environmental excellence program agreements—Effect on chapter. | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any legal requirement under this chapter, including any standard, limitation, rule, or order is superseded and replaced in accordance with the terms and provisions of an environmental excellence program agreement, entered into under chapter 43.21K RCW.
[ 1997 c 381 s 22 . For... |
70A.205.025 | Standards for solid waste handling—Areas—Landfill location. | (1) The department shall adopt rules establishing minimum functional standards for solid waste handling, consistent with the standards specified in this section. The department may classify areas of the state with respect to population density, climate, geology, status under a quarantine as defined in RCW 17.24.007 , a... |
70A.205.030 | Inert waste landfills. | (1) The department shall, as part of the minimum functional standards for solid waste handling required under RCW 70A.205.025 , develop specific criteria for the types of solid wastes that are allowed to be received by inert waste landfills that seek to continue operation after February 10, 2003. (2) The criteria for i... |
70A.205.035 | Implementation of standards—Assessment—Analyses—Proposals. | In order to implement the minimum functional standards for solid waste handling, evaluate the effectiveness of the minimum functional standards, evaluate the cost of implementation, and develop a mechanism to finance the implementation, the department shall prepare: (1) An assessment of local health agencies' informati... |
70A.205.040 | County comprehensive solid waste management plan—Joint plans—Requirements when updating—Duties of cities. | (1) Each county within the state, in cooperation with the various cities located within such county, shall prepare a coordinated, comprehensive solid waste management plan. Such plan may cover two or more counties. The purpose is to plan for solid waste and materials reduction, collection, and handling and management s... |
70A.205.045 | County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Contents. | Each county and city comprehensive solid waste management plan shall include the following: (1) A detailed inventory and description of all existing solid waste handling facilities including an inventory of any deficiencies in meeting current solid waste handling needs. (2) The estimated long-range needs for solid wast... |
70A.205.050 | County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Levels of service, reduction and recycling. | Levels of service shall be defined in the waste reduction and recycling element of each local comprehensive solid waste management plan and shall include the services set forth in RCW 70A.205.045 . In determining which service level is provided to residential and nonresidential waste generators in each community, count... |
70A.205.055 | County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review and approval process. | (1) The department and local governments preparing plans are encouraged to work cooperatively during plan development. Each county and city preparing a comprehensive solid waste management plan shall submit a preliminary draft plan to the department for technical review. The department shall review and comment on the d... |
70A.205.060 | County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review by department of agriculture. | Upon receipt by the department of a preliminary draft plan as provided in RCW 70A.205.055 , the department shall immediately provide a copy of the preliminary draft plan to the department of agriculture. Within forty-five days after receiving the preliminary draft plan, the department of agriculture shall review the pr... |
70A.205.065 | Utilities and transportation commission to review local plan's assessment of cost impacts on rates. | Upon receipt, the department shall immediately provide the utilities and transportation commission with a copy of each preliminary draft local comprehensive solid waste management plan. Within forty-five days after receiving a plan, the commission shall have reviewed the plan's assessment of solid waste collection cost... |
70A.205.070 | Technical assistance for plan preparation—Guidelines—Informational materials and programs. | (1) The department or the commission, as appropriate, shall provide to counties and cities technical assistance including, but not limited to, planning guidelines, in the preparation, review, and revision of solid waste management plans required by this chapter. Guidelines prepared under this section shall be consisten... |
70A.205.075 | Maintenance of plans—Review, revisions—Implementation of source separation programs. | (1) The comprehensive county solid waste management plans and any comprehensive city solid waste management plans prepared in accordance with RCW 70A.205.040 shall be maintained in a current condition and reviewed and revised periodically by counties and cities as may be required by the department. Upon each review suc... |
70A.205.080 | Financial aid to counties and cities. | Any county may apply to the department on a form prescribed thereby for financial aid for the preparation and implementation of the comprehensive county plan for solid waste management required by RCW 70A.205.040 , including contamination reduction and outreach plans. Any city electing to prepare an independent city pl... |
70A.205.085 | Matching requirements. | Counties and cities shall match their planning aid allocated by the director by an amount not less than twenty-five percent of the estimated cost of such planning. Any federal planning aid made directly to a county or city shall not be considered either a state or local contribution in determining local matching requir... |
70A.205.090 | Contracts with counties to assure proper expenditures. | Upon the allocation of planning funds as provided in RCW 70A.205.080 , the department shall enter into a contract with each county receiving a planning grant. The contract shall include such provisions as the director may deem necessary to assure the proper expenditure of such funds including allocations made to cities... |
70A.205.100 | Local board of health regulations to implement the comprehensive plan—Section not to be construed to authorize counties to operate system. | Each county, or any city, or jurisdictional board of health shall adopt regulations or ordinances governing solid waste handling implementing the comprehensive solid waste management plan covering storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, processing and final disposal including but not limited to the... |
70A.205.105 | Local health departments may contract with the department of ecology. | Any jurisdictional health department and the department of ecology may enter into an agreement providing for the exercise by the department of ecology of any power that is specified in the contract and that is granted to the jurisdictional health department under this chapter. However, the jurisdictional health departm... |
70A.205.110 | Solid waste disposal facility siting—Site review—Local solid waste advisory committees—Membership. | (1) Each county or city siting a solid waste disposal facility shall review each potential site for conformance with the standards as set by the department for: (a) Geology; (b) Groundwater; (c) Soil; (d) Flooding; (e) Surface water; (f) Slope; (g) Cover material; (h) Capacity; (i) Climatic factors; (j) Land use; (k) T... |
70A.205.115 | Private businesses involvement in source separated materials—Local solid waste advisory committee to examine. | (1) Each local solid waste advisory committee shall conduct one or more meetings for the purpose of determining how local private recycling and solid waste collection businesses may participate in the development and implementation of programs to collect source separated materials from residences, and to process and ma... |
70A.205.120 | Permit for solid waste handling facility—Required. | Except as provided otherwise in RCW 70A.205.260 , 70A.205.265 , 70A.205.270 , 70A.205.275 , or 70A.205.290 , after approval of the comprehensive solid waste plan by the department no solid waste handling facility or facilities shall be maintained, established, or modified until the county, city, or other person operati... |
70A.205.125 | Permit for solid waste handling facility—Applications, fee. | (1) Applications for permits to operate a new or modified solid waste handling facility shall be on forms prescribed by the department and shall contain a description of the proposed facilities and operations at the site, plans and specifications for any new or additional facilities to be constructed, and such other in... |
70A.205.130 | Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Review by department—Appeal of issuance—Validity of permits issued after June 7, 1984. | (1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, every permit issued by a jurisdictional health department under RCW 70A.205.125 shall be reviewed by the department to ensure that the proposed site or facility conforms with: (a) All applicable laws and regulations including the minimum functional standards for... |
70A.205.135 | Permit for solid waste handling facility—Renewal—Appeal—Validity of renewal—Review fees. | (1) Every permit for an existing solid waste handling facility issued pursuant to RCW 70A.205.125 shall be renewed at least every five years on a date established by the jurisdictional health department having jurisdiction of the site and as specified in the permit. If a permit is to be renewed for longer than one year... |
70A.205.140 | Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Suspension. | Any permit for a solid waste disposal site issued as provided herein shall be subject to suspension at any time the department or the jurisdictional health department determines that the site or the solid waste disposal facilities located on the site are being operated in violation of this chapter, the regulations of t... |
70A.205.150 | Exemption from solid waste permit requirements—Medication disposal. | An authorized collector regulated under chapter 69.48 RCW is not required to obtain a permit under RCW 70A.205.120 unless the authorized collector is required to obtain a permit under RCW 70A.205.120 as a consequence of activities that are not directly associated with the collection facility's activities under chapter ... |
70A.205.155 | Hearing—Appeal—Denial, suspension—When effective. | Whenever the jurisdictional health department denies a permit or suspends a permit for a solid waste disposal site, it shall, upon request of the applicant or holder of the permit, grant a hearing on such denial or suspension within thirty days after the request therefor is made. Notice of the hearing shall be given to... |
70A.205.160 | Solid waste collection companies—Notice of changes in tipping fees and disposal rate schedules. | To provide solid waste collection companies with sufficient time to prepare and submit tariffs and rate filings for public comment and commission approval, the owner or operator of a transfer station, landfill, or facility used to burn solid waste shall provide seventy-five days' notice to solid waste collection compan... |
70A.205.165 | Landfill disposal facilities—Reserve accounts required by July 1, 1987—Exception—Rules. | (1) By July 1, 1987, each holder or applicant of a permit for a landfill disposal facility issued under this chapter shall establish a reserve account to cover the costs of closing the facility in accordance with state and federal regulations. The account shall be designed to ensure that there will be adequate revenue ... |
70A.205.170 | Waste generated outside the state—Findings. | The legislature finds that: (1) The state of Washington has responded to the increasing challenges of safe, affordable disposal of solid waste by an ambitious program of waste reduction, recycling and reuse, as well as strict standards to ensure the safe handling, transportation, and disposal of solid waste; (2) All co... |
70A.205.175 | Waste generated outside the state—Solid waste disposal site facility reporting requirements—Fees. | (1) At least sixty days prior to receiving solid waste generated from outside of the state, the operator of a solid waste disposal site facility shall report to the department the types and quantities of waste to be received from an out-of-state source. The department shall develop guidelines for reporting this informa... |
70A.205.180 | Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Applications—Allocations. | Any jurisdictional health department may apply to the department for financial aid for the enforcement of rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter. Such application shall contain such information, including budget and program description, as may be prescribed by regulations of the department. After receipt ... |
70A.205.185 | Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Matching funds requirements. | The jurisdictional health department applying for state assistance for the enforcement of this chapter shall match such aid allocated by the department in an amount not less than twenty-five percent of the total amount spent for such enforcement activity during the year. The local share of enforcement costs may be met ... |
70A.205.190 | Diversion of recyclable material—Penalty. | (1) No person may divert to personal use any recyclable material placed in a container as part of a recycling program, without the consent of the generator of such recyclable material or the solid waste collection company operating under the authority of a town, city, county, or the utilities and transportation commiss... |
70A.205.195 | Unlawful to dump or deposit solid waste without permit—Penalties—Litter cleanup restitution payment. | (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section or at a solid waste disposal site for which there is a valid permit, after the adoption of regulations or ordinances by any county, city, or jurisdictional board of health providing for the issuance of permits as provided in RCW 70A.205.100 , it is unlawful for any perso... |
70A.205.200 | Name appearing on waste material—Presumption. | Whenever solid wastes dumped in violation of RCW 70A.205.195 contain three or more items bearing the name of one individual, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the individual whose name appears on such items committed the unlawful act of dumping.
[ 2020 c 20 s 1179 ; 1969 ex.s. c 134 s 25 . Formerly RCW 70.95... |
70A.205.205 | Disposal of sewage sludge or septic tank sludge prohibited—Exemptions—Uses of sludge material permitted. | After January 1, 1988, the department of ecology may prohibit disposal of sewage sludge or septic tank sludge (septage) in landfills for final disposal, except on a temporary, emergency basis, if the jurisdictional health department determines that a potentially unhealthful circumstance exists. Beneficial uses of sludg... |
70A.205.210 | Duties of department—State solid waste management plan—Assistance—Coordination—Tire recycling. | The department shall in addition to its other powers and duties: (1) Cooperate with the appropriate federal, state, interstate and local units of government and with appropriate private organizations in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. (2) Coordinate the development of a solid waste management plan for all ... |
70A.205.215 | Additional powers and duties of department. | The department shall in addition to its other duties and powers under this chapter: (1) Prepare the following: (a) A management system for recycling waste paper generated by state offices and institutions in cooperation with such offices and institutions; (b) An evaluation of existing and potential systems for recovery... |
70A.205.220 | Department to cooperate with public and private departments, agencies, and associations. | The department shall work closely with the department of commerce, the department of enterprise services, and with other state departments and agencies, the Washington state association of counties, the association of Washington cities, and business associations, to carry out the objectives and purposes of chapter 41, ... |
70A.205.225 | Department authorized to disburse referendum 26 (RCW43.83.330) fund for local government solid waste projects. | The department is authorized to use referendum 26 (*RCW 43.83.330 ) funds of the Washington futures account to disburse to local governments in developing solid waste recovery and/or recycling projects.
[ 2015 1st sp.s. c 4 s 50 ; 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 41 s 10. Formerly RCW 70.95.267 .]
*Reviser's note: RCW 43.83.330 wa... |
70A.205.230 | Department authorized to disburse funds under RCW43.83.350for local government solid waste projects. | The department is authorized to use funds under *RCW 43.83.350 to disburse to local governments in developing solid waste recovery or recycling projects. Priority shall be given to those projects that use incineration of solid waste to produce energy and to recycling projects.
[ 2015 1st sp.s. c 4 s 51 ; 1984 c 123 s 1... |
70A.205.235 | Hazardous substance remedial actions—Procedural requirements not applicable. | The procedural requirements of this chapter shall not apply to any person conducting a remedial action at a facility pursuant to a consent decree, order, or agreed order issued pursuant to chapter 70A.305 RCW, or to the department of ecology when it conducts a remedial action under chapter 70A.305 RCW. The department o... |
70A.205.240 | Determination of best solid waste management practices—Department to develop method to monitor waste stream—Collectors to report quantity and quality of waste—Confidentiality of proprietary information. | The department of ecology shall determine the best management practices for categories of solid waste in accordance with the priority solid waste management methods established in RCW 70A.205.005 . In order to make this determination, the department shall conduct a comprehensive solid waste stream analysis and evaluati... |
70A.205.245 | Solid waste stream analysis. | The comprehensive, statewide solid waste stream analysis under RCW 70A.205.240 shall be based on representative solid waste generation areas and solid waste generation sources within the state. The following information and evaluations shall be included: (1) Solid waste generation rates for each category; (2) The rate ... |
70A.205.250 | Solid waste stream evaluation. | (1) The evaluation of the solid waste stream required in RCW 70A.205.240 shall include the following elements: (a) The department shall determine which management method for each category of solid waste will have the least environmental impact; and (b) The department shall evaluate the costs of various management optio... |
70A.205.255 | Analysis and evaluation to be incorporated in state solid waste management plan. | The department shall incorporate the information from the analysis and evaluation conducted under RCW 70A.205.240 through 70A.205.250 to the state solid waste management plan under RCW 70A.205.210 . The plan shall be revised periodically as the evaluation and analysis is updated.
[ 2020 c 20 s 1184 ; 1988 c 184 s 4 . F... |
70A.205.260 | Solid waste—Beneficial uses—Permitting requirement exemptions. | (1) The department may by rule exempt a solid waste from the permitting requirements of this chapter for one or more beneficial uses. In adopting such rules, the department shall specify both the solid waste that is exempted from the permitting requirements and the beneficial use or uses for which the solid waste is so... |
70A.205.265 | Solid waste handling permit—Exemption from requirements—Application of section—Rules. | (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may by rule exempt from the requirements to obtain a solid waste handling permit any category of solid waste handling facility that it determines to: (a) Present little or no environmental risk; and (b) Meet the environmental protection and perform... |
70A.205.270 | Composting of bovine and equine carcasses—Guidelines—Exemption from solid waste handling rules. | (1) By July 1, 2005, the department of ecology and the department of agriculture, in consultation with the department of health, shall make available to livestock producers clearly written guidelines for the composting of bovine and equine carcasses for routine animal disposal. (2) Composters of bovine and equine carca... |
70A.205.275 | Rules—Department "deferring" to other permits—Application of section. | (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the department shall adopt rules: (a) Describing when a jurisdictional health department may, at its discretion, waive the requirement that a permit be issued for a facility under this chapter if other air, water, or environmental permits are issued for the same... |
70A.205.280 | Penalty. | (1) The department may assess a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars per day per violation to any person exempt from solid waste permitting in accordance with RCW * 70A.205.145 , 70A.205.260 , 70A.205.265 , 70A.205.270 , or 70A.205.290 who fails to comply with the terms and conditions of the ex... |
70A.205.285 | Construction. | Nothing in chapter 156, Laws of 1998 may be construed to affect chapter 81.77 RCW and the authority of the utilities and transportation commission.
[ 1998 c 156 s 9 . Formerly RCW 70.95.320 .] |
70A.205.290 | Qualified anaerobic digesters exempt from permitting requirements of chapter—Definitions. | (1) An anaerobic digester that complies with the conditions specified in this section is exempt from the permitting requirements of this chapter. To qualify for the exemption, an anaerobic digester must meet the following conditions: (a) The owner or operator must provide the department or the jurisdictional health dep... |
70A.205.300 | Transporters—Definition—Registration required—Penalties. | (1) For the purposes of this section and RCW 70A.205.310 , "transporter" means any person or entity that transports recyclable materials from commercial or industrial generators over the public highways of the state of Washington for compensation, and who are required to possess a permit to operate from the Washington ... |
70A.205.310 | Transporters—Delivery of recyclable materials to transfer station or landfill prohibited—Records—Penalty. | (1) A transporter may not deliver any recyclable materials for disposal to a transfer station or landfill. (2) A transporter shall keep records of locations and quantities specifically identified in relation to a generator's name, service date, address, and invoice, documenting where recyclables have been sold, deliver... |
70A.205.320 | Damages. | Any person damaged by a violation of RCW 70A.205.300 through 70A.205.340 may bring a civil action for such a violation by seeking either injunctive relief or damages, or both, in the superior court of the county in which the violation took place or in Thurston county. The prevailing party in such an action is entitled ... |
70A.205.330 | Solid waste recyclers—Notice—Report—Penalty. | (1) All facilities that recycle solid waste, except for those facilities with a current solid waste handling permit issued under RCW 70A.205.120 , must notify the department in writing within thirty days prior to operation, or ninety days from July 24, 2005, for existing recycling operations, of the intent to conduct r... |
70A.205.340 | Financial assurance requirements. | (1) The department may adopt rules that establish financial assurance requirements for recycling facilities that do not already have financial assurance requirements under this chapter, or are not already specifically exempted from financial assurance requirements under this chapter. The financial assurance requirement... |
70A.205.400 | Disposal of vehicle tires outside designated area prohibited—Penalty—Exemption. | (1) No person may drop, deposit, discard, or otherwise dispose of vehicle tires on any public property or private property in this state or in the waters of this state whether from a vehicle or otherwise, including, but not limited to, any public highway, public park, beach, campground, forestland, recreational area, t... |
70A.205.405 | Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | (1) There is levied a one dollar per tire fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires. The fee imposed in this section must be paid by the buyer to the seller, and each seller shall collect from the buyer the full amount of the fee. The fee collected from the buyer by the seller less the ten percent amount ... |
70A.205.410 | Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires—Failure to collect, pay to department—Penalties. | (1) The fee required by this chapter, to be collected by the seller, shall be deemed to be held in trust by the seller until paid to the department of revenue, and any seller who appropriates or converts the fee collected to his or her own use or to any use other than the payment of the fee to the extent that the money... |
70A.205.415 | Waste tire removal account. | The waste tire removal account is created in the state treasury. Expenditures from the account may be used for the cleanup of unauthorized waste tire piles, measures that prevent future accumulation of unauthorized waste tire piles, and road wear related maintenance on state and local public highways. During the 2007-2... |
70A.205.420 | Waste tire removal account—Use—Information required to be posted to department's website. | (1) Moneys in the waste tire removal account may be appropriated to the department of ecology: (a) To provide for funding to state and local governments for the removal of discarded vehicle tires from unauthorized tire dump sites; and (b) To accomplish the other purposes of RCW 70A.205.010 as they relate to waste tire ... |
70A.205.425 | Waste tire removal account—Use of moneys—Transfer of any balance in excess of one million dollars to the motor vehicle fund.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | (1) All receipts from tire fees imposed under RCW 70A.205.405 , except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, must be deposited in the waste tire removal account created under RCW 70A.205.415 . Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used for the cleanup... |
70A.205.430 | Disposition of fee.(Effective until January 1, 2026.) | (1) Every person engaged in making retail sales of new replacement vehicle tires in this state shall retain ten percent of the collected one dollar fee. The moneys retained may be used for costs associated with the proper management of the waste vehicle tires by the retailer. (2) The department of ecology will administ... |
70A.205.435 | Cooperation with department to aid tire recycling. | To aid in the statewide tire recycling campaign, the legislature strongly encourages various industry organizations which are active in resource recycling efforts to provide active cooperation with the department of ecology so that additional technology can be developed for the tire recycling campaign.
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70A.205.440 | Waste tires—Definitions. | Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 70A.205.445 through 70A.205.455 . (1) "Storage" or "storing" means the placing of more than eight hundred waste tires in a manner that does not constitute final disposal of the waste tires. (2) "Transportation" or "trans... |
70A.205.445 | Waste tires—License for transport or storage business—Requirements. | Any person engaged in the business of transporting or storing waste tires shall be licensed by the department. To obtain a license, each applicant must: (1) Provide assurances that the applicant is in compliance with this chapter and the rules regarding waste tire storage and transportation; (2) Accept liability for an... |
70A.205.450 | Waste tires—Violation of RCW70A.205.445—Penalty. | (1) Any person who transports or stores waste tires without a license in violation of RCW 70A.205.445 shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished under RCW 9A.20.021 (2). (2) Any person who transports or stores waste tires without a license in violation of RCW 70A.205.445 is liable for ... |
70A.205.455 | Waste tires—Contracts with unlicensed persons prohibited. | No business may enter into a contract for: (1) Transportation of waste tires with an unlicensed waste tire transporter; or (2) Waste tire storage with an unlicensed owner or operator of a waste tire storage site.
[ 1988 c 250 s 6 . Formerly RCW 70.95.565 .] |
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