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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 2570

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By Representatives Sprenkle, Walker, Fraser, Pruitt, May, G. Fisher, Brekke, R. King, R. Meyers, Spanel, Winsley, Todd, Rasmussen and Cooper

Read first time 1/15/90 and referred to Committee on Environmental Affairs.

AN ACT Relating to waste reduction; adding new sections to chapter 70.95C RCW; and repealing RCW 70.95C.110.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 70.95C RCW to read as follows:

          (1) The department of ecology shall develop a waste reduction, recycling, and procurement plan for state agencies and local governments.

          (2) Each state agency and each local government shall implement the procurement plan within six months of the plan's completion.

          (3) The director of the department of general administration, shall appoint a multi-agency task force to assist with the development of the plan.

          (4) For the purposes of this section and section 2 of this act:

          (a) "State agencies" means all departments, boards, and offices of state government, institutions of higher education, educational service districts, the supreme court, court of appeals, superior courts, and the legislature.

          (b) "Local governments" means the executive or legislative authority of all city and county governments and school districts.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 70.95C RCW to read as follows:

          (1) The waste reduction and recycling elements of the plan under section 1 of this act shall provide specific, cost-effective actions and requirements for reducing and recycling those commodities that would otherwise have been destined to disposal.

          (2) The procurement element of the plan under section 1 of this act shall enhance government purchases of products containing recovered materials by:

          (a) Adopting the environmental protection agency's procurement guidelines pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 6901 et seq.).  The department may amend any part of the federal guidelines, if the department finds that the guidelines restrict or inhibit actual or potential markets for those commodities addressed in the federal guidelines;

          (b) Developing procurement guidelines for yardwaste.  Such guidelines shall, to the extent possible, be consistent with existing national, regional, or state guidelines for yardwaste procurement;

          (c) Developing a weighting factor for use in the evaluation of contracted bids.  The weighting factor established by the plan shall be consistent with the weighting factor established pursuant to RCW 43.19.538.

          (3) The plan may include procurement guidelines for other commodities as deemed necessary by the department and the multi-agency task force.  Such guidelines shall, to the extent possible, be consistent with any national, regional, or state guidelines.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.  Section 53, chapter 431, Laws of 1989 and RCW 70.95C.110 are each repealed.