1028-S AMH MEYE H2496.1
SHB 1028 - H AMD TO REV COMM AMD (H-2495.1/91) 132 Failed 3-15-91
By Representatives Hargrove, Meyers, VanLuven and Haugen
Beginning on page 91, line 13 of the amendment, strike all of sections 501 and 502 and insert the following:
"Sec. 501. RCW 70.94.457 and 1987 c 405 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:
((Before
January 1, 1988,)) The department of ecology shall establish by rule
under chapter 34.05 RCW:
(1) State-wide emission performance standards for new wood stoves. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter which allows an authority to adopt more stringent emission standards, no authority shall adopt any emission standard for new wood stoves other than the state-wide standard adopted by the department under this section.
(a)
((For new wood stoves sold after July 1, 1988, the state-wide performance
standard, by rule, shall be the equivalent of and consistent with state-wide
emission standards in effect in bordering states on or before January 1, 1987.
For solid fuel burning devices for which bordering states have not established
emission standards, the department may temporarily exempt or establish, by
rule, state-wide standards including emission levels and test procedures for
such devices and such emission levels and test procedures shall be equivalent
to emission levels per pound per hour burned for other new wood stoves
regulated by this subsection))
After January 1, 1993, no fireplace, except masonry fireplaces, shall be offered for sale unless such fireplace meets the 1988 United States environmental protection agency standards for wood stoves.
(b) After January 1, 1995, no fireplace, except masonry fireplaces, shall be offered for sale unless such fireplace meets the 1990 United States environmental protection agency standards for wood stoves.
(c) Subsection (1)(a) of this section shall not apply to fireplaces.
(((b)))
(d) Notwithstanding (a) of this subsection, the department is authorized
to adopt, by rule, emission standards adopted by the United States
environmental protection agency for new wood stoves sold at retail. For solid
fuel burning devices for which the United States environmental protection
agency has not established emission standards, the department may ((temporarily))
exempt or establish, by rule, state-wide standards including emission levels
and test procedures for such devices and such emission levels and test
procedures shall be equivalent to emission levels per pound per hour burned for
other new wood stoves and fireplaces regulated under this subsection.
(2) A program to:
(a)
Determine whether a new ((wood stove)) solid fuel burning device
complies with the state-wide emission performance standards established in
subsection (1) of this section; and
(b)
Approve the sale of ((stoves)) devices that comply with the
state-wide emission performance standards."
"Sec. 502. RCW 70.94.470 and 1987 c 405 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
((Before January 1, 1988,)) The department shall establish, by
rule under chapter 34.05 RCW, ((state-wide opacity levels for residential
solid fuel burning devices as follows:
(a)
A state-wide opacity level of twenty percent for the purpose of public
education;
(b)
Until July 1, 1990, a state-wide opacity level of forty percent for the purpose
of enforcement on a complaint basis; and
(c)
After July 1, 1990, a)) (a) state-wide
opacity level of twenty percent for residential solid fuel burning devices
for the purpose of enforcement on a complaint basis and (b) after July 1,
1995, a state-wide opacity of twenty percent for purposes of enforcement on a
complaint basis.
(2)
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter which may allow an
authority to adopt a more stringent opacity level, no authority shall adopt or
enforce an opacity level((:
(a)
Lower than forty percent until July 1, 1990; and
(b)
Lower than twenty percent after July 1, 1990)) for
solid fuel burning devices other than established in this section."