"Sec. 1   RCW 43.160.020 and 2008 c 327 s 2 and 2008 c 131 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
     (1) "Board" means the community economic revitalization board.
     (2) "Department" means the department of community, trade, and economic development.
     (3) "Local government" or "political subdivision" means any port district, county, city, town, special purpose district, and any other municipal corporations or quasi-municipal corporations in the state providing for public facilities under this chapter.
     (4) "Public facilities" means a project of a local government or a federally recognized Indian tribe for the planning, acquisition, construction, repair, reconstruction, replacement, rehabilitation, or improvement of bridges, roads, domestic and industrial water, earth stabilization, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, railroad, electricity, telecommunications, transportation, natural gas, buildings or structures, and port facilities((, all)) for the purpose of job creation, job retention, or job expansion. Port facilities include capitalized equipment valued in excess of four hundred thousand dollars for the maintenance of maritime transportation facilities by a consortium of three or more rural port districts.
     (5) "Rural county" ((means a county with a population density of fewer than one hundred persons per square mile or a county smaller than two hundred twenty-five square miles, as determined by the office of financial management and published each year by the department for the period July 1st to June 30th)) has the same meaning as in RCW 82.14.370.
     (6) "Rural port district" has the same meaning as in RCW 53.08.005.

Sec. 2   RCW 53.08.005 and 2000 c 81 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
     The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
     (1) "Commission" means the Washington utilities and transportation commission.
     (2) "Rural port district" means a port district formed under chapter 53.04 RCW and located in a rural county ((with an average population density of fewer than one hundred persons per square mile)) as defined in RCW 82.14.370.
     (3) "Telecommunications" has the same meaning as contained in RCW 80.04.010.
     (4) "Telecommunications facilities" means lines, conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, crossarms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances, instrumentalities and all devices, real estate, easements, apparatus, property, and routes used, operated, owned, or controlled by any entity to facilitate the provision of telecommunications services.
     (5) "Wholesale telecommunications services" means the provision of telecommunications services or facilities for resale by an entity authorized to provide telecommunications services to the general public and internet service providers."