WSR 97-20-046

EXPEDITED REPEAL

DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY

[Order 97-37--Filed September 24, 1997, 9:43 a.m.]

The Following Sections are Proposed for Expedited Repeal: WAC 173-490-203 Perchloroethylene dry cleaning systems.

Rules Proposed for Expedited Repeal Meet the Following Criteria: Other rules of the agency or of another agency govern the same activity as the rule, making the rule redundant.

Any person who objects to the repeal of the rule must file a written objection to the repeal within thirty days after publication of this preproposal statement of inquiry.

Address Your Objection to: Jerry Thielen, Rules Coordinator, Department of Ecology, P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600.

Reason the Expedited Repeal of the Rule is Appropriate: These sections should have been repealed when the newer requirements to limit emissions of perchloroethylene from existing and new dry cleaning systems were adopted. Established in 1991, the older rules conflict with the more stringent state-wide standards adopted on September 9, 1996. The newer standards are based on federal requirements and also establish the requirements that would have been placed on a new business in 1993 as the minimum in the state.

September 19, 1997

Joseph A. Williams