WSR 97-18-042

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

[Filed August 27, 1997, 4:09 p.m.]

Date of Adoption: August 18, 1997.

Purpose: Chapter 16-34 WAC, Dead animals, packing house offal, meat market scraps--Transportation and disposal, is being repealed, as the statute that it is promulgated under, chapter 16.68 RCW, is sufficient.

Chapter 16-46 WAC, Domestic and imported animal semen, is currently managed under industry quality control standards, making this chapter redundant and is, therefore, being repealed.

Chapter 16-50 WAC, Importation of mink, is being repealed because it is duplicative. Provisions of mink are covered by chapter 16-54 WAC, Animal importation.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 16-34-001, 16-34-010, 16-34-020, 16-34-030, 16-34-040, dead animals, packing house offal, meat market scraps--Transportation and disposal; WAC 16-46-001, 16-46-005, 16-46-020, 16-46-030, 16-46-035, 16-46-040, 16-46-045, 16-46-070, domestic and imported animal semen; and WAC 16-50-001, 16-50-010, 16-50-020, importation of mink.

Adopted under preproposal statement of inquiry filed as WSR 97-14-048 on June 27, 1997.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 0, repealed 16.

Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.

Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

August 18, 1997

Jim Jesernig