CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

             ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5728

 

                   Chapter 208, Laws of 1992

 

                               

 

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1992 Regular Session

 

 

STATE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT‑-THRESHOLD DETERMINATION TIME LIMITS

 

 

EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/11/92 - Except Section 1 which takes effect on 9/1/92.

Passed by the Senate March 8, 1992

  Yeas 45   Nays 1

 

 

 

               JOEL PRITCHARD

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House March 6, 1992

  Yeas 95   Nays 1

               CERTIFICATE

 

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5728 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

                   JOE KING

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

             GORDON A. GOLOB

                                 Secretary

 

 

Approved April 2, 1992 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                     FILED          

 

                April 2, 1992 - 11:56 a.m.

 

 

 

               BOOTH GARDNER

Governor of the State of Washington

                        Secretary of State

                       State of Washington


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                       ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5728

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                              AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

                     Passed Legislature - 1992 Regular Session

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1992 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Environment & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Amondson, Vognild, Owen, Bauer, Stratton, McCaslin, West and Johnson)

 

Read first time 02/04/92.Requiring that threshold determination must be completed within fifteen to thirty days.


     AN ACT Relating to the state environmental policy act; adding a new section to chapter 43.21C RCW; and providing an effective date.

 

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

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  There is added to chapter 43.21C RCW a new section to read as follows:

     (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the responsible official shall make a threshold determination on a completed application within ninety days after the application and supporting documentation are complete.  The applicant may request an additional thirty days for the threshold determination.  The governmental entity responsible for making the threshold determination shall by rule, resolution, or ordinance adopt standards, consistent with rules adopted by the department to implement this chapter, for determining when an application and supporting documentation are complete.

     (2) This section shall not apply to a city, town, or county that by ordinance adopted prior to April 1, 1992, has adopted procedures to integrate permit and land use decisions with the requirements of this chapter.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  Section 1 of this act shall take effect September 1, 1992.


     Passed the Senate March 8, 1992.

     Passed the House March 6, 1992.

Approved by the Governor April 2, 1992.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 2, 1992.