1866-S2.E AMS FRAS WILB 008

E2SHB 1866 - S AMD TO S AMD (S-3041.1/97) - 383

    By Senator Fraser

                                               NOT ADOPTED 4/18/97

    On page 3, line 14, after "modification." insert the following: "Where the director of the department of ecology proposes to enter an agreement providing for more efficient environmental results and the agreement includes provisions that supersede otherwise inconsistent legal requirements that will remain applicable to other businesses similarly situated to that of the project agreement sponsor, the director shall take such steps as are available administratively, or recommend legislative action if necessary, to make the alternatives in the agreement generally available to other businesses.  In doing so the director shall ensure the overall environmental results achieved by any facility pursuing more efficient environmental results are not decreased below the level achieved through existing legal requirements.  The purpose of this requirement is ensure that state approval of agreements with a single sponsor to reduce costs do not adversely affect the relative competitiveness of businesses in the same industrial or commercial activity."

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EFFECT: Requires concurrent steps to make the alternatives in the agreement available to other businesses when the agreement is for the purpose of achieving more "efficient" environmental results.