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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 718

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Representatives Rust, Walker and Unsoeld

Read first time 2/6/87 and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.

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:

          (1) Tanker trucks delivering gasoline to retail gasoline service stations shall be equipped with meters capable of measuring the amount of gasoline delivered to the service station.

          (2) Persons delivering gasoline to retail service stations shall supply the station with an invoice which shall include the gross amount of gasoline delivered and the temperature of the gasoline at the time it was loaded into the truck.