SENATE BILL REPORT

SB 5565

BYSenators Kreidler, Lee and Bauer

Requiring gasoline delivery trucks to have meters and supply receipts.

Senate Committee on Parks & Ecology

Senate Hearing Date(s):February 9, 1987; February 18, 1987

Majority Report:  That Substitute Senate Bill No. 5565 be substituted therefor, and the substitute bill do pass.

      Signed by Senators Kreidler, Chairman; Rinehart, Vice Chairman; Bluechel, Kiskaddon.

Senate Staff:Rick Anderson (786-7717)

                  February 18, 1987

AS REPORTED BY COMMITTEE ON PARKS & ECOLOGY, FEBRUARY 18, 1987

BACKGROUND:

The Uniform Fire Code requires that service station owner keep accurate daily inventory records of their petroleum products.  Currently, service station owners have no readily available mechanisms to determine the exact volume of gas entering the station's storage tanks.  The volume of gasoline changes readily in response to changes in temperature and pressure.  Thus, when 10,000 gallons of gasoline is loaded on a delivery truck, the actual volume delivered to the service station may be greater, or less than, 10,000 gallons. 

Because the service station owner cannot accurately inventory the gasoline, the owner cannot be sure that his or her storage tanks are not leaking.

SUMMARY:

Tanker trucks delivering gasoline to service stations will be equipped with meters capable of measuring the amount of gasoline delivered to those stations.  An invoice specifying the gross volume of gasoline delivered and its temperature at the time of loading, shall also be required.

EFFECT OF PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE:

Tanker trucks delivering gas to service stations will not be required to carry meters.

Invoices presented to the service station owner shall contain the following information:  The gross volume and the net volume of gasoline at 60 degrees F; the temperature of the gas and the time as it is loaded onto the delivery truck; and the time as the gas is delivered to the service station.

Fiscal Note:      requested

Senate Committee - Testified: M. Sangster, WTA; J. Sharp, Lee & Eastes Tank Lines; Tim Hamilton, AUTO; Randy Ray, Washington Oil Marketers Association; John Morse, Arco; Louis Weisenburgh, Chevron; Tom Lufkin, Department of Ecology