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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 681

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1986 Regular Session

By House Committee on Environmental Affairs (originally sponsored by Representatives Valle, Rust, Allen and Isaacson)

Read first 1/15/86 and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.

AN ACT Relating to the solid waste advisory committee; and amending RCW 70.95.040.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 10, Laws of 1977 as amended by section 1, chapter 108, Laws of 1982 and RCW 70.95.040 are each amended to read as follows:

          There is created a solid waste advisory committee to provide consultation to the department of ecology concerning matters covered by this chapter.  The committee shall advise on the development of programs and regulations for solid and dangerous waste handling, resource recovery, and recycling, and shall supply recommendations concerning methods by which existing solid and dangerous waste handling, resource recovery, and recycling practices and the laws authorizing them may be supplemented and improved.

          The committee shall consist of eleven members, including the ((assistant director for the division of solid waste management)) program manager for solid and hazardous waste within the department.  The director shall appoint ten members with due regard to the interests of the public, local government, agriculture, industry, public health, and the refuse removal and resource recovery industries.  The director shall include among his ten appointees representatives of activities from which dangerous wastes arise and the Washington state patrol's hazardous materials technical advisory committee.  The term of appointment shall be determined by the director.  The committee shall elect its own chairman and meet at least four times a year, in accordance with such rules of procedure as it shall establish.  Members shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be reimbursed their travel expenses while engaged in business of the committee in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 as now existing or hereafter amended.

The committee shall each year recommend to the governor a recipient for a "governor's award of excellence" which the governor shall award for outstanding achievement by a business, public interest group, local government, trade association, or individual in the area of hazardous waste or solid waste management. Top priority shall be given to activities that achieve (1) waste reduction and (2) recycling, recovery or reuse of resources.