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                         SENATE BILL 5288

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senators Fraser, Prentice, Patterson, Costa, Spanel, Eide, Jacobsen, Franklin, Gardner, Haugen, Thibaudeau, Kohl‑Welles and Kline

Read first time 01/19/1999.  Referred to Committee on Environmental Quality & Water Resources.

Changing the description of waters from which oil tanker passage is prohibited.

    AN ACT Relating to describing waters prohibited from oil tanker passage; and amending RCW 88.16.190.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 88.16.190 and 1994 c 52 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Any oil tanker, whether enrolled or registered, of greater than one hundred and twenty-five thousand deadweight tons shall be prohibited from proceeding beyond a point, within United States waters, east of a line extending from ((Discovery Island light south to New Dungeness)) Bonilla Point light on Vancouver Island to Tatoosh Island light.

    (2) An oil tanker, whether enrolled or registered, of forty to one hundred and twenty-five thousand deadweight tons may proceed beyond the points enumerated in subsection (1) if such tanker possesses all of the following standard safety features:

    (a) Shaft horsepower in the ratio of one horsepower to each two and one-half deadweight tons; and

    (b) Twin screws; and

    (c) Double bottoms, underneath all oil and liquid cargo compartments; and

    (d) Two radars in working order and operating, one of which must be collision avoidance radar; and

    (e) Such other navigational position location systems as may be prescribed from time to time by the board of pilotage commissioners:

    PROVIDED, That, if such forty to one hundred and twenty-five thousand deadweight ton tanker is in ballast or is under escort of a tug or tugs with an aggregate shaft horsepower equivalent to five percent of the deadweight tons of that tanker, subsection (2) of this section shall not apply:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That additional tug shaft horsepower equivalencies may be required under certain conditions as established by rule and regulation of the Washington utilities and transportation commission pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That a tanker assigned a deadweight of less than forty thousand deadweight tons at the time of construction or reconstruction as reported in Lloyd's Register of Ships is not subject to the provisions of RCW 88.16.170 through 88.16.190.

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