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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 6238

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senators Metcalf and Owen;by request of Department of Ecology

Read first time 1/15/88 and referred to Committee on Environment & Natural Resources.

AN ACT Relating to the authority to administer selected federal safe drinking water act programs; and amending RCW 43.21A.445.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 4, chapter 270, Laws of 1983 and RCW 43.21A.445 are each amended to read as follows:

          The department of ecology, the department of natural resources, the department of social and health services, and the oil and gas conservation committee are authorized to participate fully in and are empowered to administer all programs of Part C of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300(h) et seq.), as it exists on ((July 24, 1983)) June 19, 1986, contemplated for state participation in administration under the act.  ((The department of ecology is also authorized to participate in any future federal program established under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act which provides matching funding for planning and implementation of a sole source aquifer protection program.))

          The department of ecology, in the implementation of powers provided herein shall enter into agreements of administration with the departments of social and health services and natural resources and the oil and gas conservation committee to administer those portions of the state program, approved under the federal act, over which the said departments and committee have primary subject-matter authority under existing state law.  The departments of social and health services and natural resources and the oil and gas conservation committee are empowered to enter into such agreements and perform the administration contained therein.