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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 6238
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AS AMENDED BY THE FREE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
C 279 L 88 PV
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1988 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Environment & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Metcalf and Owen;by request of Department of Ecology)
Read first time 1/25/88.
AN ACT Relating to the authority to administer selected federal safe drinking water act programs; and amending RCW 43.21A.445.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 4, chapter 270, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.21A.445 are each amended to read as follows:
The
department of ecology, the department of natural resources, the department of
social and health services, and the oil and gas conservation committee are authorized
to participate fully in and are empowered to administer all programs of Part C
of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300h et seq.), as it
exists on ((July 24, 1983)) June 19, 1986, contemplated for state
participation in administration under the act. ((The department of ecology
is also authorized to participate in any future federal program established
under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act which provides matching funding for
planning and implementation of a sole source aquifer protection program.))
The department of ecology, in the implementation of powers provided herein shall enter into agreements of administration with the departments of social and health services and natural resources and the oil and gas conservation committee to administer those portions of the state program, approved under the federal act, over which the said departments and committee have primary subject-matter authority under existing state law. The departments of social and health services and natural resources and the oil and gas conservation committee are empowered to enter into such agreements and perform the administration contained therein.
The state board of health shall adopt drinking water regulations applicable to public water supply systems which are not covered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act only if necessary to protect public health.