BILL REQ. #: H-5072.1

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SECOND SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2349
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State of Washington

59th Legislature

2006 Regular Session

By House Committee on Appropriations (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris, Hudgins, Chase, Murray, Darneille, Dickerson, B. Sullivan and Sells)

READ FIRST TIME 02/08/06.

AN ACT Relating to new renewable energy standards; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   (1) By July 1, 2007, state agencies must purchase all available anaerobic digestion power from their local utility at the green tag rate.
     (2) To the extent that a utility purchases power from an anaerobic digestion power producer, the utility must pay the anaerobic digester producer at the green tag rate minus marketing costs.
     (3) For the purposes of this section, "anaerobic digestion" means a biological process that enables organic matter to be broken down by bacteria in the absence of air to produce a gas principally composed of methane.

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