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.