CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 2181

 

 

                    Chapter 70, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

LENGTH OF CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE STORAGE

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 12, 1999

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 6, 1999

  Yeas 43   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 2181  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved April 21, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.         

                                FILED                

 

           April 21, 1999 - 3:18 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 2181

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Clements and G. Chandler

 

Read first time 02/17/1999.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Ecology.

Storing fruits or vegetables in controlled atmosphere storage.  


    AN ACT Relating to controlled atmosphere storage; and amending RCW 15.30.060.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 15.30.060 and 1994 c 23 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    The director shall adopt rules:

    (1) Prescribing the maximum amount of oxygen that may be retained in a sealed controlled atmosphere storage warehouse:  PROVIDED, That such maximum amount of oxygen retained shall not exceed five percent when apples are stored in such controlled atmosphere storage warehouse.

    (2) Prescribing the period in which the oxygen content shall be reduced to the amount prescribed in subsection (1) of this section:  PROVIDED, That such period shall not exceed twenty days when apples are stored in such controlled atmosphere warehouse.

    (3) The length of time and the degrees of temperature at which any fruits or vegetables shall be retained in controlled atmosphere storage, before they may be classified as having been stored in controlled atmosphere storage:  PROVIDED, That such period shall not be less than forty-five days for Gala and Jonagold varieties and not less than ((ninety)) sixty days for other apples.


    Passed the House March 12, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 6, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 21, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1999.