(2) A manufacturer violating a requirement of this chapter, a rule adopted under this chapter, or an order issued under this chapter, is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation in the case of a first offense. Manufacturers who are repeat violators are subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each repeat offense.
(3) Any penalty provided for in this section, and any order issued by the department under this chapter, may be appealed to the pollution control hearings board.
(4) All penalties collected under this chapter shall be deposited in the model toxics control operating account created in RCW
70A.305.180.
Sec. 5. RCW
43.21B.110 and 2021 c 316 s 41 and 2021 c 313 s 16 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(1) The hearings board shall only have jurisdiction to hear and decide appeals from the following decisions of the department, the director, local conservation districts, the air pollution control boards or authorities as established pursuant to chapter
70A.15 RCW, local health departments, the department of natural resources, the department of fish and wildlife, the parks and recreation commission, and authorized public entities described in chapter
79.100 RCW:
(a) Civil penalties imposed pursuant to RCW
18.104.155,
70A.15.3160,
70A.300.090,
70A.20.050,
70A.530.040,
70A.350.070,
70A.515.060,
70A.245.040,
70A.245.050,
70A.245.070,
70A.245.080,
70A.65.200,
section 3 of this act, 76.09.170,
77.55.440,
78.44.250,
88.46.090,
90.03.600,
90.46.270,
90.48.144,
90.56.310,
90.56.330, and
90.64.102.
(b) Orders issued pursuant to RCW
18.104.043,
18.104.060,
43.27A.190,
70A.15.2520,
70A.15.3010,
70A.300.120,
70A.350.070,
70A.245.020,
70A.65.200,
section 3 of this act, 86.16.020,
88.46.070,
90.14.130,
90.46.250,
90.48.120, and
90.56.330.
(c) Except as provided in RCW
90.03.210(2), the issuance, modification, or termination of any permit, certificate, or license by the department or any air authority in the exercise of its jurisdiction, including the issuance or termination of a waste disposal permit, the denial of an application for a waste disposal permit, the modification of the conditions or the terms of a waste disposal permit, or a decision to approve or deny an application for a solid waste permit exemption under RCW
70A.205.260.
(d) Decisions of local health departments regarding the grant or denial of solid waste permits pursuant to chapter
70A.205 RCW.
(e) Decisions of local health departments regarding the issuance and enforcement of permits to use or dispose of biosolids under RCW
70A.226.090.
(f) Decisions of the department regarding waste-derived fertilizer or micronutrient fertilizer under RCW
15.54.820, and decisions of the department regarding waste-derived soil amendments under RCW
70A.205.145.
(g) Decisions of local conservation districts related to the denial of approval or denial of certification of a dairy nutrient management plan; conditions contained in a plan; application of any dairy nutrient management practices, standards, methods, and technologies to a particular dairy farm; and failure to adhere to the plan review and approval timelines in RCW
90.64.026.
(h) Any other decision by the department or an air authority which pursuant to law must be decided as an adjudicative proceeding under chapter
34.05 RCW.
(i) Decisions of the department of natural resources, the department of fish and wildlife, and the department that are reviewable under chapter
76.09 RCW, and the department of natural resources' appeals of county, city, or town objections under RCW
76.09.050(7).
(j) Forest health hazard orders issued by the commissioner of public lands under RCW
76.06.180.
(k) Decisions of the department of fish and wildlife to issue, deny, condition, or modify a hydraulic project approval permit under chapter
77.55 RCW, to issue a stop work order, to issue a notice to comply, to issue a civil penalty, or to issue a notice of intent to disapprove applications.
(l) Decisions of the department of natural resources that are reviewable under RCW
78.44.270.
(m) Decisions of an authorized public entity under RCW
79.100.010 to take temporary possession or custody of a vessel or to contest the amount of reimbursement owed that are reviewable by the hearings board under RCW
79.100.120.
(n) Decisions of the department of ecology that are appealable under RCW
70A.245.020 to set recycled minimum postconsumer content for covered products or to temporarily exclude types of covered products in plastic containers from minimum postconsumer recycled content requirements.
(2) The following hearings shall not be conducted by the hearings board:
(a) Hearings required by law to be conducted by the shorelines hearings board pursuant to chapter
90.58 RCW.
(d) Hearings conducted by the department to adopt, modify, or repeal rules.
(3) Review of rules and regulations adopted by the hearings board shall be subject to review in accordance with the provisions of the administrative procedure act, chapter
34.05 RCW.
Sec. 6. RCW
43.21B.300 and 2021 c 316 s 42 and 2021 c 313 s 17 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
(1) Any civil penalty provided in RCW
18.104.155,
70A.15.3160,
70A.205.280,
70A.300.090,
70A.20.050,
70A.245.040,
70A.245.050,
70A.245.070,
70A.245.080,
70A.65.200,
section 3 of this act, 88.46.090,
90.03.600,
90.46.270,
90.48.144,
90.56.310,
90.56.330, and
90.64.102 and chapter
70A.355 RCW shall be imposed by a notice in writing, either by certified mail with return receipt requested or by personal service, to the person incurring the penalty from the department or the local air authority, describing the violation with reasonable particularity. For penalties issued by local air authorities, within thirty days after the notice is received, the person incurring the penalty may apply in writing to the authority for the remission or mitigation of the penalty. Upon receipt of the application, the authority may remit or mitigate the penalty upon whatever terms the authority in its discretion deems proper. The authority may ascertain the facts regarding all such applications in such reasonable manner and under such rules as it may deem proper and shall remit or mitigate the penalty only upon a demonstration of extraordinary circumstances such as the presence of information or factors not considered in setting the original penalty.
(2) Any penalty imposed under this section may be appealed to the pollution control hearings board in accordance with this chapter if the appeal is filed with the hearings board and served on the department or authority thirty days after the date of receipt by the person penalized of the notice imposing the penalty or thirty days after the date of receipt of the notice of disposition by a local air authority of the application for relief from penalty.
(3) A penalty shall become due and payable on the later of:
(a) Thirty days after receipt of the notice imposing the penalty;
(b) Thirty days after receipt of the notice of disposition by a local air authority on application for relief from penalty, if such an application is made; or
(c) Thirty days after receipt of the notice of decision of the hearings board if the penalty is appealed.
(4) If the amount of any penalty is not paid to the department within thirty days after it becomes due and payable, the attorney general, upon request of the department, shall bring an action in the name of the state of Washington in the superior court of Thurston county, or of any county in which the violator does business, to recover the penalty. If the amount of the penalty is not paid to the authority within thirty days after it becomes due and payable, the authority may bring an action to recover the penalty in the superior court of the county of the authority's main office or of any county in which the violator does business. In these actions, the procedures and rules of evidence shall be the same as in an ordinary civil action.
(5) All penalties recovered shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the general fund except those penalties imposed pursuant to RCW
18.104.155, which shall be credited to the reclamation account as provided in RCW
18.104.155(7), RCW
70A.15.3160, the disposition of which shall be governed by that provision, RCW
70A.245.040 and
70A.245.050, which shall be credited to the recycling enhancement account created in RCW
70A.245.100, RCW
70A.300.090 and section 3 of this act, which shall be credited to the model toxics control operating account created in RCW
70A.305.180, RCW
70A.65.200, which shall be credited to the climate investment account created in RCW
70A.65.250, RCW
90.56.330, which shall be credited to the coastal protection fund created by RCW
90.48.390, and RCW
70A.355.070, which shall be credited to the underground storage tank account created by RCW
70A.355.090.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 7. This chapter may be known and cited as the toxic-free cosmetics act.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. Sections 1 through 4 and 7 of this act constitute a new chapter in Title 70A RCW." EFFECT: Authorizes the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to adopt rules to implement, administer, and enforce restrictions on cosmetic products.
Exempts hydrofluoroolefins used as aerosol propellants from restrictions on chemicals in cosmetic products.
Clarifies that the information sought from community outreach by Ecology through the community engagement plan concerns the use of cosmetic products, rather than the chemical content of cosmetic products.
Clarifies that the community engagement plan must support efforts to identify priority chemicals and products for evaluation under Ecology's Safer Products for Washington program, rather than automatically resulting in regulatory action under that program.
Makes technical corrections, including by adding conforming amendments to the statutes establishing the jurisdiction of the Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) and penalty imposition procedures for penalties appealable to the PCHB.
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