5821 AMH .... H2970.1

SB 5821 - H AMD TO H COMM AMD (ENA) 616 FAILED 4-19-91

By Representatives Zellinsky, Sheldon, Schmidt and P. Johnson

    Beginning on page 2, line 12 of the amendment, strike all of section 2 and insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 70.94 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) Any county of the first class in which seventy-five percent or more of its boundary lies on water and not land, and that is a part of a multicounty authority pursuant to RCW 70.94.053, shall be subject to the requirements of this section.  After January 1, 1992, any such county shall operate an individual county air pollution control authority under this chapter, unless prior to such date, the legislative authority of such county determines to take one of the following actions:

    (a) To continue its participation in an existing multicounty authority;

    (b) To join another existing multicounty authority by consent of the governing board of such authority; or

    (c) To join with one or more contiguous counties to operate as a new multicounty authority, pursuant to the procedures of RCW 70.94.057.

    (2) Prior to making a determination under subsection (1) of this section the county shall obtain public comment through hearings and written comments.

    (3) Where a county subject to the requirements of this section does not elect to participate in a multicounty authority after January 1, 1992, the rules adopted by a multicounty authority in effect within such county shall remain in effect until superseded by the adoption of rules, resolutions, or ordinances by the county acting as an individual county authority under this chapter.  Such superseding rules, resolutions, or ordinances shall, in all cases, become effective on or before July 1, 1992.

    (4) Before operating an individual county air pollution control authority under this chapter, a county subject to the requirements of this section shall make arrangements by intercounty agreement with the multicounty authority from which the county is withdrawing for the division of assets and liabilities and the appropriate releases of interests in assets of the multicounty authority."