WSR 15-08-032

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

[Filed March 25, 2015, 10:55 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: WAC 314-28-030 What does a distillery license allow? and 314-28-05 [314-28-050] What does a craft distillery license allow?

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 66.24.140 and 66.24.145.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: This rule making is the result of a petition for rule making submitted by a stakeholder requesting the board allow mixers to be used in samples provided at the distillery premises to customers.

Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.

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.

March 25, 2015

Jane Rushford

Chairman