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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5288

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Environmental Quality & Water Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Fraser, Prentice, Patterson, Costa, Spanel, Eide, Jacobsen, Franklin, Gardner, Haugen, Thibaudeau, Kohl‑Welles and Kline)

Read first time 02/15/1999.

Regulating movement of oil tankers within state waters.

    AN ACT Relating to describing waters prohibited from oil tanker passage; and amending RCW 88.16.190.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 88.16.190 and 1994 c 52 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Any oil tanker, whether enrolled or registered, of greater than ((one hundred and twenty-five)) forty thousand deadweight tons shall be prohibited from proceeding beyond a point, within the internal waters of the state of Washington and the United States, east of a line extending from ((Discovery Island light south to New Dungeness)) Bonilla Point light on Vancouver Island to Tatoosh Island light, unless the conditions set in subsection (2) of this section are met.

    (2) An oil tanker, whether enrolled or registered, of greater than forty ((to one hundred and twenty-five)) thousand deadweight tons may proceed beyond the points enumerated in subsection (1) of this section if ((such)) the tanker is in ballast or under the escort of a tug or tugs with the ability to control the movement of or stop the tanker.  A tanker is exempt from this section if it possesses all of the following standard safety features:

    (a) ((Shaft horsepower in the ratio of one horsepower to each two and one-half deadweight tons)) A bow thruster with a dedicated power source; ((and))

    (b) Two rudders with separate steering systems;

(c) An independent source of electrical power for each rudder and screw combination;

(d) Twin screws with a dedicated power source to each; ((and

    (c))) (e) Double bottoms, underneath all oil, fuel, and liquid cargo compartments; ((and

    (d))) (f) Two radars in working order and operating, one of which must be collision avoidance radar; and

    (((e))) (g) Such other navigational position location systems as may be prescribed from time to time by the board of pilotage commissioners((:

    PROVIDED, That, if such forty to one hundred and twenty-five thousand deadweight ton tanker is in ballast or is under escort of a tug or tugs with an aggregate shaft horsepower equivalent to five percent of the deadweight tons of that tanker, subsection (2) of this section shall not apply:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That additional tug shaft horsepower equivalencies may be required under certain conditions as established by rule and regulation of the Washington utilities and transportation commission pursuant to chapter 34.05 RCW:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That)).

(3) A tanker assigned a deadweight of less than forty thousand deadweight tons at the time of construction or reconstruction as reported in Lloyd's Register of Ships is not subject to the provisions of RCW 88.16.170 through 88.16.190.

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