CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1474

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 19, 1997   Yeas 56   Nays 36 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 16, 1997   Yeas 31   Nays 18

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 1474  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 1474

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Government Reform & Land Use (originally sponsored by Representatives Reams, Cairnes, Lisk, Sherstad, Sheldon, Sheahan, Pennington, Hatfield, Koster, Dunn, Doumit, McMorris, Alexander, Thompson, Bush, McDonald, Delvin, Wensman and Mulliken)

Read first time 02/26/97.

Increasing categorical exemptions from SEPA.  

    AN ACT Relating to increasing categorical exemptions from the state environmental policy act within areas designated as urban growth areas under the growth management act; and adding a new section to chapter 43.21C RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 43.21C RCW to read as follows:

    (1) Within urban growth areas designated under RCW 36.70A.110, decisions pertaining to the following activities are exempt from threshold determination and environmental impact statement requirements:  (a) Construction of or location of any residential structures of ten or fewer dwelling units; (b) construction of an office, school, commercial, recreational, service, or storage building with eight thousand or fewer square feet of gross floor area, and with associated parking for forty or fewer automobiles; (c) construction of a parking lot designed for forty or fewer automobiles; (d) division of land into nine or fewer lots or parcels; and (e) any landfill or excavation of five hundred cubic yards throughout the total lifetime of the fill or excavation.

    (2) The legislative authority of a county or city that is planning under RCW 36.70A.040 may raise the exemption levels specified in subsection (1)(a) or (b) of this section by ordinance or resolution to the following maximum levels within urban growth areas: (a) Construction of or location of any residential structures of a maximum of twenty or fewer dwelling units; and (b) construction of an office, school, commercial, recreational, service, or storage building with a maximum of twelve thousand or fewer square feet of gross floor area, and with associated parking for forty or fewer automobiles.

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