HOUSE BILL REPORT

 

 

                                    SB 5887

 

 

BYSenators DeJarnatt and Smith

 

 

Allowing boards of county commissioners to appoint representatives to air pollution control authorities.

 

 

House Committe on Environmental Affairs

 

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (11)

      Signed by Representatives Rust, Chair; Valle, Vice Chair; D. Sommers, Ranking Republican Member; Brekke, G. Fisher, Fraser, Phillips, Pruitt, Sprenkle, Van Luven and Walker.

 

      House Staff:Rick Anderson (786-7114)

 

 

                        AS PASSED HOUSE APRIL 11, 1989

 

BACKGROUND:

 

The State Clean Air Act, RCW 70.94, gives specific responsibilities to regional air pollution control boards to protect air quality within its political jurisdictions.  A board of directors, representing local government entities, is the governing body.

 

Current law requires county commissioners to serve on the board; city officials have express authority to appoint a representative.

 

An Attorney General's informal opinion states that the practice of some counties to appoint a full-time alternate for an appointed county commissioner to attend the air board meetings may not be legal.

 

SUMMARY:

 

County commissioners are authorized to appoint a representative to serve on the board of directors.

 

Fiscal Note:      Not Requested.

 

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Van Youngquist, Cowlitz County Commissioner; Dick Serdoz, South West Air Pollution Control Authority; Randy Scott, Washington State Association of Counties.

 

House Committee - Testified Against:      None Presented.

 

House Committee - Testimony For:    County Commissioners need the flexibility to appoint full-time alternates to the board due to time constraints and the technical nature of the subject.

 

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None Presented.