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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 332

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By House Committee on Environmental Affairs (originally sponsored by Representatives Valle, Allen, Crane, May, Rayburn, Rust, Sprenkle, Unsoeld and Lux)

Read first time 2/27/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to dangerous waste exchange; and adding a new section to chapter 70.105 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.105 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) The department may establish and operate a hazardous waste exchange.  The purposes of this exchange are:

          (a) To encourage the use and reuse of materials that, when discarded, abandoned, or unused, are hazardous wastes;

          (b) To provide an organized, effective system for identifying and advertising the availability of such materials;

          (c) To allow persons who generate unwanted materials that are or could be hazardous wastes to contact other persons who can use or reuse those unwanted materials; and

          (d) To discourage the discarding and abandoning of materials that have beneficial uses as ingredients or as effective substitutes for commercial products in manufacturing and industrial processes.

          (2) In order to establish and operate the hazardous waste exchange, the department may:

          (a) Review hazardous waste exchanges used by other states or other countries to determine the best available means for operating an effective exchange;

          (b) Advertise the availability of materials for use or reuse;

          (c) Solicit persons who generate hazardous wastes to participate in the exchange;

          (d) Communicate, coordinate, or enter into regional waste exchange agreements with other persons who operate hazardous waste exchanges in other states or countries where materials could be used or reused;

          (e) Provide incentives for persons to use the exchange;

          (f) Conduct research into possible uses and reuses of hazardous wastes, and make this information available to interested persons;

          (g) Assess a nominal fee of not more than one hundred dollars from persons advertising materials in the exchange.  Money from these fees shall be deposited in the hazardous waste control and elimination account, and shall be used to pay for activities described under (b), (d), and (f) of this subsection; and

          (h) Adopt rules necessary to implement this section.

          (3) Persons who participate in the hazardous waste exchange may ask the department to restrict the release of confidential business information.  Requests for confidentiality and public requests for release of confidential information will be processed by the department in accordance with chapter 42.17 RCW.