WSR 13-22-090

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed November 6, 2013, 10:42 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: WAC 314-24-070 Wine returned to Washington.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 66.08.030.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: This rule making is a result of a stakeholder petition for rule making. This rule making would allow wine that was originally produced at a Washington domestic winery and subsequently removed to an out-of-state regional distribution center to be returned to Washington for distribution without being physically trucked to the producing winery before being delivered to the appointed Washington wine distributor.

Process for Developing New Rule: Interested parties can participate in the discussions formulating this rule change by contacting or sending written comments to the agency staff listed below.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Karen McCall, Agency Rules Coordinator, P.O. Box 43080, Olympia, WA 98504-3080, (360) 664-1631, fax (360) 664-9689.

November 6, 2013

Sharon Foster

Chairman