SB 5057 - DIGEST
(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 2ND SUB)

Requires the department of ecology to provide grants to emergency responders to assist with oil spill and hazardous materials response and firefighting equipment and resources needed to meet the requirements of this act.

Requires first-class cities to provide to the utilities and transportation commission a list of existing public crossings within the limits of a first-class city.

Requires the emergency management council to require local emergency planning organizations to submit hazardous materials plans and to update the plans on a five-year cycle for compliance review by the adjutant general.

Requires the department of ecology and the utilities and transportation commission to jointly hold a symposium on oil spill prevention and response activities for international transport of liquid bulk crude oil.

Imposes an oil spill response tax and an oil spill administration tax on the privilege of receiving crude oil at a bulk oil terminal within this state from a tank car.

Makes an appropriation.