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                                ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 6266

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                                                            AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

                                                                            C 258 L 88

State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Environment & Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Metcalf, Vognild and Barr)

Read first time 2/5/88.

AN ACT Relating to aquifer protection districts; and amending RCW 36.36.040.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 4, chapter 425, Laws of 1985 and RCW 36.36.040 are each amended to read as follows:

          Aquifer protection areas may impose fees to fund:

          (1) The preparation of a comprehensive plan to protect, preserve, and rehabilitate subterranean water.  This plan may be prepared as a portion of a county sewerage and/or water general plan pursuant to RCW 36.94.030;

          (2) The construction of facilities for: (a) The removal of water-borne pollution; (b) water quality improvement; (c) sanitary sewage collection, disposal, and treatment; and (d) storm water or surface water drainage collection, disposal, and treatment; ((and))

          (3) The proportionate reduction of special assessments imposed by a county, city, town, or special district in the aquifer protection area for any of the facilities described in subsection (2) of this section; and

(4) The costs of monitoring and inspecting on-site sewage disposal systems or community sewage disposal systems for compliance with applicable standards and rules, and for enforcing compliance with these applicable standards and rules in aquifer protection areas created after the effective date of this 1988 act.