WSR 14-01-098

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed December 18, 2013, 7:55 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: SR 520 Bridge toll rate, fee, discount and policy setting.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 47.56.850 and 47.56.870.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The commission must consider toll rates that will help maintain travel time, speed, and reliability on the SR 520 corridor and must set and adjust toll rates and policies to generate revenue sufficient and necessary to cover costs and obligations described in RCW 47.56.830 and 47.56.850.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Washington state department of transportation will review and coordinate with the transportation commission on this rule-making process.

Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication. The transportation commission will hold public input meetings in the regional area surrounding the SR 520 Bridge in the spring of 2014. More details will be issued in coming months. Public comment will be taken at the public input meetings as well as at the final hearing. Comments may also be submitted in writing to the Transportation Commission, P.O. Box 47308, Olympia, WA 98504-7308, phone (360) 705-7070, fax (360) 705-6802, or e-mail transc@wsdot.wa.gov.

December 18, 2013

Reema Griffith

Executive Director