CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

          ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5724

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 12, 1992   Yeas 41   Nays 6 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 12, 1992   Yeas 96   Nays 1

CERTIFICATE I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5724 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the        House of Representatives

Secretary

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                        State of Washington

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                   ENGROSSED SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5724

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                    AS RECOMMENDED BY THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Sutherland, Hayner and Owen).

Read first time March 11, 1991.Requiring the department of ecology to study impacts of regulating paper mill waste.

     AN ACT Relating to water pollution control of chlorinated organic compound emissions; and adding a new section to chapter 90.48 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 90.48 RCW to read as follows:

     (1) The department may require each pulp mill and paper mill discharging chlorinated organics to conduct and submit an engineering report on the cost of installing technology designed to reduce the amount of chlorinated organic compounds discharged into the waters of the state.  The department shall allow at least twenty-four months from the effective date of this act for each pulp mill and each paper mill to submit an engineering report. 

     (2) The department may not issue a permit establishing limits to the discharge of chlorinated organic compounds by a pulp mill or a paper mill under RCW 90.48.160 or 90.48.260 until at least nine months after receiving an engineering report from a kraft mill and at least fifteen months after receiving an engineering report from a sulfite mill.

     (3)  Nothing in this section shall apply to dioxin compounds.