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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2376
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1996
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/02/96.
Recovering gasoline vapors.
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. 7407; or
(b) The facility sells
in excess of six hundred thousand gallons of gasoline per year and is located
in a county where a maintenance plan has been adopted by a local air pollution
control authority or the department of ecology that includes gasoline vapor
recovery devices as a control strategy; or
(c) 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 an ozone-contributing county. For purposes of this section, an
ozone-contributing county means a county in which the emissions have contributed
to the formation of ozone in any county where violations of federal ozone
standards have been measured, and includes: Cowlitz, Island, Kitsap, Lewis,
Skagit, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom counties; or
(d) 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, no part of which is
designated as nonattainment for ozone under the federal clean air act, 42
U.S.C. Sec. 7407, provided that the department of ecology determines by
December 31, 1997, that the use of gasoline vapor control devices in the county
is important to achieving or maintaining attainment status in any other county.
(2) This section does
not preclude the department of ecology or any local air pollution authority
from requiring a gasoline vapor recovery device that captures vapors during
vehicle refueling as part of the regulation of sources as provided in RCW
70.94.152, 70.94.331, or 70.94.141 or where required under 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7412.
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.
