PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
AND LAND SURVEYORS
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 196-12 WAC, Professional engineers.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 18.43.035.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Language will be amended and/or repealed to better reflect the board's current practices.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Negotiated rule making.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting George A. Twiss, Executive Director, P.O. Box 9025, Olympia, WA 98507-9025, phone (360) 664-1575, fax (360) 664-2551, e-mail engineers@dol.wa.gov. Comments may be submitted through regular mail, phone, fax or e-mail.
July 1, 2009
George A. Twiss
Executive Director