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                                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 718

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By House Committee on Environmental Affairs (originally sponsored by Representatives Rust, Walker and Unsoeld)

Read first time 3/4/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.

AN ACT Relating to inventory control for certain fuel storage tanks of petroleum products; adding a new section to chapter 19.94 RCW; and creating a new section.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The legislature finds:  That leaking underground storage tanks containing petroleum products may pose a significant and widespread problem to human health and the environment, that current inventory procedures are inadequately suited to identify leaking underground storage tanks, and that new measures are needed to properly determine which tanks may be leaking.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 19.94 RCW to read as follows:

          Persons delivering gasoline to retail service stations shall supply the station with an invoice which shall include the following information:  (1) The gross volume of gasoline and the net volume of gasoline at sixty degrees Fahrenheit; (2) the time and temperature of the gasoline as loaded onto the delivery truck; and (3) the time of delivery to the retail service station.