WSR 97-06-109
POLICY STATEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
[Filed March 5, 1997, 9:45 a.m.]
Title of Policy: Penalty Settlement.
Effective Date: New, December 15, 1996
Issuing Agency/Division: Department of Health, Environmental Health Programs, Division of Drinking Water.
Description: RCW 70.119A.040 authorizes the department to levy civil penalties as part of an enforcement action against any person violating a law or rule regulating public water systems administered by the Department of Health. The drinking water program will consider mitigation or reduction of any civil penalty imposed by the program under certain limited circumstances when the mitigation is part of a settlement of the underlying enforcement action.
Contact: Judy J. Welch, Division of Drinking Water, Headquarters, P.O. Box 47822, Olympia, WA 98504-7822, phone (360) 664-8770, Internet jjw0303@hub.doh.wa.gov.