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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1137

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives Baugher, Rayburn, Grant, Bristow, Hargrove, Ballard, R. Meyers, Smith, Patrick, Zellinsky, McLean, Moyer, Bowman, Youngsman and Brumsickle

Read first time 1/18/89 and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.

AN ACT Relating to waste discharge permits; and amending RCW 90.48.160.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 1, chapter 71, Laws of 1955 as last amended by section 3, chapter 155, Laws of 1973 and RCW 90.48.160 are each amended to read as follows:

          Any person who conducts a commercial or industrial operation of any type which results in the disposal of solid or liquid waste material into the waters of the state, including commercial or industrial operators discharging solid or liquid waste material into sewerage systems operated by municipalities or public entities which discharge into public waters of the state, shall procure a permit from either the department or the thermal power plant site evaluation council as provided in RCW 90.48.262(2) before disposing of such waste material:  PROVIDED, That this section shall not apply to any person discharging domestic sewage only into a sewerage system.  This section shall not apply to agricultural mint distilleries if the water discharged is used only for noncontact cooling purposes and is not used for processing mint.

          The department may, through the adoption of rules, eliminate the permit requirements for disposing of wastes into publicly operated sewerage systems for:

          (1) Categories of or individual municipalities or public corporations operating sewerage systems; or

          (2) Any category of waste disposer;

if the department determines such permit requirements are no longer necessary for the effective implementation of this chapter.