WSR 09-12-009
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE
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Filed May 21, 2009,
10:18 a.m.
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The attorney general's office seeks public input on the
following opinion request(s):
Opinion Docket No. 09-05-04Request by Honorable Gregory Zempel
Kittitas County Prosecutor
1. Does RCW 90.44.050 restrict groundwater withdrawals
without a permit for lawn and non-commercial gardening
purposes to a subpart of the 5,000 gallons per day allocated
to single or group domestic use, and thus also limit those
domestic uses of the exemption to a remainder?
2. If RCW 90.44.050 does not limit such groundwater
withdrawals as mentioned above, may the Department of Ecology
implement a rule imposing such a limit by permanently adopting
WAC 173-539A Upper Kittitas Ground Water Rule?
3. Does RCW 90.44 preempt the local legislative authority
of a county from setting a numeric gallon per day limit or
group use limit upon the lawn and non-commercial gardening
exemption from permitting?
4. Could Ecology and a county, by entering into an
agreement, impose such a limit?
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