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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2376
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology (originally sponsored by Representatives Chandler, Koster, Johnson, Boldt, McMorris, Thompson and Mulliken)
Read first time 02/02/96.
AN ACT Relating to gasoline vapor recovery at service stations and other dispensing facilities; adding a new section to chapter 70.94 RCW; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 70.94 RCW to read as follows:
(1) A gasoline vapor recovery device that captures vapors during vehicle fueling may only be required at a service station, or any other gasoline dispensing facility supplying fuel to the general public, in any of the following circumstances:
(a) The facility sells in excess of six hundred thousand gallons of gasoline per year and is located in a county, any part of which is designated as nonattainment for ozone under the federal clean air act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 181, or the facility sells in excess of six hundred thousand gallons of gasoline per year and is located in a county where a maintenance plan adopted by the local air pollution control authority or the department of ecology includes gasoline vapor recovery devices as a control strategy;
(b) From the effective date of this section until December 31, 1998, in any facility that sells in excess of one million two hundred thousand gallons of gasoline per year and is located in Whatcom, Skagit, Kitsap, Island, Thurston, Lewis, Cowlitz, or Wahkiakum counties;
(c) After December 31, 1998, in any facility that sells in excess of eight hundred forty thousand gallons of gasoline per year and is located in any county that does not violate the federal ozone standard, provided that the department of ecology determines by December 31, 1997, that the use of gasoline vapor control devices in the county is necessary to achieve and maintain attainment status in any other county.
(2) This section does not impair the authority of the department of ecology or any local air pollution control authority to regulate new or modified sources as provided in RCW 70.94.152.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.
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