CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2338

                        54th Legislature

                      1996 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 6, 1996   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the        House of Representatives Passed by the Senate March 1, 1996   Yeas 47   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2338 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

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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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2338

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                     Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1996 Regular Session

By House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology (originally sponsored by Representatives Schoesler, Grant, Sheahan, McMorris, Mastin, Fuhrman, Chandler, Honeyford and Thompson)

Read first time 01/31/96. 

Prohibiting the department of ecology from regulating ammonia emissions for nonproduction activity related to making or using ammonia as agricultural or silvicultural fertilizer.

     AN ACT Relating to anhydrous ammonia; adding a new section to chapter 70.94 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  The legislature finds that:

     (1) Anhydrous ammonia is the most important nutrient material used for the production of wheat and barley crops in Washington state;

     (2) The federal environmental protection agency regulates one hundred eighty-nine toxic air pollutants;

     (3) Ammonia is not federally regulated as a toxic air pollutant;

     (4) Ammonia is regulated at the state and federal level through rules established to protect workers from unhealthful levels of exposure to ammonia; and

     (5) The department of ecology regulates ammonia as a toxic air pollutant and uses a threshold that is three hundred times more stringent than the standard used to protect workers.

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

     The department shall not regulate ammonia emissions resulting from the storage, distribution, transport, or application of ammonia for use as an agricultural or silvicultural fertilizer.

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