CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 6504



60th Legislature
2008 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 14, 2008
  YEAS 48   NAYS 0


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President of the Senate
Passed by the House March 4, 2008
  YEAS 94   NAYS 0


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Speaker of the House of Representatives


CERTIFICATE

I, Thomas Hoemann, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 6504 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.


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Secretary
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Governor of the State of Washington
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Secretary of State
State of Washington


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SENATE BILL 6504
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Passed Legislature - 2008 Regular Session
State of Washington60th Legislature2008 Regular Session

By Senators Hatfield, Swecker, Delvin, Regala, Schoesler, Morton, Pridemore, and Rasmussen; by request of Department of Ecology

Read first time 01/17/08.   Referred to Committee on Water, Energy & Telecommunications.



     AN ACT Relating to exempting certain minor new construction associated with construction storm water general permits from the state environmental policy act; amending RCW 43.21C.0383; and creating a new section.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   The legislature intends that the revised threshold adopted in 2005 for the department of ecology's construction storm water general permit should not increase the scope of projects subject to state environmental policy act review. The department of ecology should pursue rule making to achieve the intent of this act.

Sec. 2   RCW 43.21C.0383 and 1996 c 322 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
     The following waste discharge permit actions are not subject to the requirements of RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c):
     (1) For existing discharges, the issuance, reissuance, or modification of a waste discharge permit that contains conditions no less stringent than federal effluent limitations and state rules ((is not subject to the requirements of RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This exemption applies to existing discharges only and does not apply to new source discharges));
     (2) The issuance of a construction storm water general permit under chapter 90.48 RCW for a proposal disturbing less than five acres. The exemption in this subsection does not apply if, under rules adopted by the department of ecology, the proposal would otherwise be subject to the requirements of RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c).

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