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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2277

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Pruitt, D. Sommers, Rust, Walker, Brekke, Schoon, Valle, Fraser, Phillips, Nelson, Sprenkle, Hine and P. King

Prefiled with Chief Clerk 1/5/90.  Read first time 1/8/90 and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.

AN ACT Relating to air quality; and adding a new section to chapter 70.94 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.94 RCW to read as follows:

          (1) A joint select committee on air quality is established consisting of six members appointed in the following manner:

          (a) The president of the senate shall appoint two members from the senate majority caucus and one member from the senate minority caucus; and

          (b) The speaker of the house of representatives shall appoint two members from the house majority caucus and one member from the house minority caucus.

          (c) The president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives shall jointly select a chairperson for the committee.

          (d) The chairperson shall appoint one nonlegislative member from each of the following interests:  Large business, small business, agriculture/forestry, environment, public health, and transportation.  In addition the chair shall appoint to the committee one representative each from the department of ecology, the state energy office, and a local air pollution control authority.

          (2) The committee shall be staffed by the senate committee services and the office of program research.

          (3) (a) The joint select committee on air quality shall include recommendations for reducing air emissions from:

          (i) Stationary sources, including but not limited to incinerators, boilers, and other large scale industrial combustion processes;

          (ii) Mobile sources, including but not limited to gasoline and diesel powered vehicles;

          (iii) Open burning sources, including but not limited to agricultural, commercial, and residential practices; and

          (iv) Area sources, including but not limited to wood stoves and various small-scale industrial activities.

          (b) The committee shall consider the following elements of current state and local air pollution control programs and make recommendations as appropriate:

          (i) Existing funding mechanisms;

          (ii) Data collection, monitoring, and modelling; and

          (iii) Administrative and enforcement structure.

          (c) The committee shall consider the recommendations, as applicable, of the growth strategies commission and the Washington 2010 report.

          (d) The committee may make recommendations to incorporate practices that reduce air emissions through waste reduction or energy conservation.

          (e) The committee may make recommendations to reduce air emissions known or suspected of contributing to the "greenhouse effect" or ozone depletion, including but not limited to requiring and/or encouraging the use of alternative fuels.

          (4) The committee shall report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature on or before January 18, 1991.  This section shall expire on June 30, 1991.