HOUSE BILL REPORT

HB 1327

BYRepresentatives Rust, Walker and Unsoeld; by request of Department of Ecology

Changing provisions relating to the authority of state agencies to administer part C of the federal safe drinking water act.

House Committe on Environmental Affairs

Majority Report:  Do pass.  (13)

      Signed by Representatives Rust, Chair; Valle, Vice Chair; Brekke, Ferguson, Jesernig, Lux, May, Pruitt, Schoon, D. Sommers, Sprenkle, Unsoeld and Walker.

House Staff:Susan Gulick (786-7116)

AS PASSED HOUSE JANUARY 25, 1988

BACKGROUND:

Current law authorizes the Department of Ecology, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Social and Health Services, and the Oil and Gas Conservation Committee to implement certain provisions in the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act as it existed on July 24, 1983.  The Safe Drinking Water Act was amended in 1986, and, therefore, these agencies are not specifically authorized to administer the new programs added by the 1986 amendments.  The amendments included provisions for a sole source aquifer program.

SUMMARY:

The Department of Ecology and other state agencies are authorized to administer certain provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act as it exists as of June 19, 1986.

Fiscal Note:      Requested January 18, 1988.

House Committee ‑ Testified For:    Carol Jolly, Department of Ecology.

House Committee - Testified Against:      None Presented.

House Committee - Testimony For:    This bill is necessary for the Department of Ecology and other state agencies to continue to administer portions of federal law.

House Committee - Testimony Against:      None Presented.