Date of Adoption: June 8, 1999.

Purpose: Remove reference to the word "horticultural" in the title and replace with the words "fruit and vegetable" to comply with RCW 15.17; remove WAC 16-458-004 Promulgation; and add language to WAC 16-458-075, 16-458-080, and 16-458-085 to clarify language in these sections.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 16-458, Horticultural inspection district boundaries.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 15.17, Standards of grades and packs.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 99-08-113 on April 7, 1999.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 1.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 1. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

July 30, 1999

Jim Jesernig

Director

HORTICULTURE FRUIT AND

VEGETABLE INSPECTION DISTRICT

BOUNDARIES

Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending Order 1471, filed 7/2/76)

WAC 16-458-075
Fruit and vegetable district two.

Fruit and vegetable district two shall consist of Kittitas, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima and that portion of Benton County lying west of a line running south from the Columbia River known as the center line of Range 27E, and north of Sellards Road from its junction with Range 27E on the east, thence west to the Yakima County line; this includes the Prosser, Kiona, and Benton City areas.

[Order 1471, § 16-458-075, filed 7/2/76.]

Fruit and vegetable district three shall consist of all counties located west of the Cascade Mountains, Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman counties, and that portion of Benton County lying south and east of the Sellards Road, from its junction with Yakima County on the west thence east to the center line of Range 27E, thence north to the Columbia River; this excludes the Benton City, Kiona and Prosser areas.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.17.  87-24-009 (Order 1959), § 16-458-080, filed 11/20/87, effective 1/1/88; Order 1471, § 16-458-080, filed 7/2/76.]

Fruit and vegetable district four shall consist of Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan counties.

[Order 1471, § 16-458-085, filed 7/2/76.]

     The following section of the Washington Administrative Code is repealed:

WAC 16-458-004

Promulgation.