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                         SENATE BILL 5550

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State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senators Snyder and Palmer

Read first time 01/26/95.  Referred to Committee on Ecology & Parks.

Modifying requirements for standards for solid waste handling.

    AN ACT Relating to standards for solid waste handling; and amending RCW 70.95.060.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.95.060 and 1969 ex.s. c 134 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    The department in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 34.05 RCW, as now or hereafter amended, may adopt such minimum functional standards for solid waste handling as it deems appropriate.  The department in adopting such standards may classify areas of the state with respect to population density, climate, geology, and other relevant factors bearing on solid waste disposal standards.  Standards with an effective date on or after October 1, 1993, shall affect existing municipal solid waste landfill units to the minimum extent possible and shall define "existing municipal solid waste landfill units" to include defined areas of land that have been permitted by a jurisdictional health department to receive, and any part of which is receiving, solid waste as of the effective date of the standard.

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