Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.94 Washington Clean Air Act

70.94.011 Declaration of public policies and purpose
It is declared to be the public policy to preserve, protect, and enhance the air quality for current and future generations. Air is an essential ...

70.94.015 Air pollution control account -- Air operating permit account
(1) The air pollution control account is established in the state treasury. All receipts collected by or on behalf of the department from RCW 70.94.151(2), ...

70.94.017 Air pollution control account -- Subaccount distribution
(1) Money deposited in the segregated subaccount of the air pollution control account under RCW 46.68.020(2) shall be distributed as follows: (a) Eighty-five percent shall ...

70.94.025 Pollution control hearings board of the state of Washington as affecting chapter 70.94 RCW
See chapter 43.21B RCW. ...

70.94.030 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Air contaminant" means dust, fumes, mist, smoke, other particulate ...

70.94.033 Environmental excellence program agreements -- Effect on chapter
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any legal requirement under this chapter, including any standard, limitation, rule, or order is superseded and replaced in accordance ...

70.94.035 Technical assistance program for regulated community
The department shall establish a technical assistance unit within its air quality program, consistent with the federal clean air act, to provide the regulated community, ...

70.94.037 Transportation activities -- "Conformity" determination requirements
In areas subject to a state implementation plan, no state agency, metropolitan planning organization, or local government shall approve or fund a transportation plan, program, ...

70.94.040 Causing or permitting air pollution unlawful -- Exception
Except where specified in a variance permit, as provided in RCW 70.94.181, it shall be unlawful for any person to cause air pollution or permit ...

70.94.041 Exception -- Burning wood at historic structure
Except as otherwise provided in this section, any building or structure listed on the national register of historic sites, structures, or buildings established pursuant to ...

70.94.053 Air pollution control authorities created -- Activated authorities, composition, meetings -- Delineation of air pollution regions, considerations
(1) In each county of the state there is hereby created an air pollution control authority, which shall bear the name of the county within ...

70.94.055 Air pollution control authority may be activated by counties, when
The legislative authority of any county may activate an air pollution control authority following a public hearing on its own motion, or upon a filing ...

70.94.057 Multicounty authority may be formed by contiguous counties -- Name
The boards of county commissioners of two or more contiguous counties may, by joint resolution, combine to form a multicounty air pollution control authority. Boundaries ...

70.94.068 Merger of active and inactive authorities to form multicounty or regional authority -- Procedure
The respective boards of county commissioners of two or more contiguous counties may merge any combination of their several inactive or activated authorities to form ...

70.94.069 Merger of active and inactive authorities to form multicounty or regional authority -- Reorganization of board of directors -- Rules and regulations
Whenever there occurs a merger of an inactive authority with an activated authority or authorities, or of two activated authorities to form a multicounty authority, ...

70.94.070 Resolutions activating authorities -- Contents -- Filings -- Effective date of operation
The resolution or resolutions activating an air pollution authority shall specify the name of the authority and participating political bodies; the authority's principal place of ...

70.94.081 Powers and duties of authorities
An activated authority shall be deemed a municipal corporation; have right to perpetual succession; adopt and use a seal; may sue and be sued in ...

70.94.085 Cost-reimbursement agreements
(1) An authority may enter into a written cost-reimbursement agreement with a permit applicant or project proponent to recover from the applicant or proponent the ...

70.94.091 Excess tax levy authorized -- Election, procedure, expense
An activated authority shall have the power to levy additional taxes in excess of the constitutional and/or statutory tax limitations for any of the authorized ...

70.94.092 Air pollution control authority -- Fiscal year -- Adoption of budget -- Contents
Notwithstanding the provisions of RCW 1.16.030, the budget year of each activated authority shall be the fiscal year beginning July 1st and ending on the ...

70.94.093 Methods for determining proportion of supplemental income to be paid by component cities, towns and counties -- Payment
(1) Each component city or town shall pay such proportion of the supplemental income to the authority as determined by either one of the following ...

70.94.094 Designation of authority treasurer and auditor -- Duties
The treasurer of each component city, town, or county shall create a separate fund into which shall be paid all money collected from taxes or ...

70.94.095 Assessed valuation of taxable property, certification by county assessors
It shall be the duty of the assessor of each component county to certify annually to the board the aggregate assessed valuation of all taxable ...

70.94.096 Authorization to borrow money
An activated authority shall have the power when authorized by a majority of all members of the board to borrow money from any component city, ...

70.94.097 Special air pollution studies -- Contracts for conduct of
In addition to paying its share of the supplemental income of the activated authority, each component city, town, or county shall have the power to ...

70.94.100 Air pollution control authority -- Board of directors -- Composition -- Term
(1) The governing body of each authority shall be known as the board of directors. (2)(a) In the case of an authority comprised of one ...

70.94.110 City selection committees
There shall be a separate and distinct city selection committee for each county making up an authority. The membership of such committee shall consist of ...

70.94.120 City selection committees -- Meetings, notice, recording officer -- Alternative mail balloting -- Notice
(1) The city selection committee of each county which is included within an authority shall meet within one month after the activation of such authority ...

70.94.130 Air pollution control authority -- Board of directors -- Powers, quorum, officers, compensation
The board shall exercise all powers of the authority except as otherwise provided. The board shall conduct its first meeting within thirty days after all ...

70.94.141 Air pollution control authority -- Powers and duties of activated authority
The board of any activated authority in addition to any other powers vested in them by law, shall have power to: (1) Adopt, amend and ...

70.94.142 Subpoena powers -- Witnesses, expenses and mileage -- Rules and regulations
In connection with the subpoena powers given in RCW 70.94.141(2): (1) In any hearing held under RCW 70.94.181 and 70.94.221, the board or the department, ...

70.94.143 Federal aid
Any authority exercising the powers and duties prescribed in this chapter may make application for, receive, administer, and expend any federal aid, under federal legislation ...

70.94.151 Classification of air contaminant sources -- Registration -- Fee -- Registration program defined -- Adoption of rules requiring the reporting of emissions of greenhouse gases
(1) The board of any activated authority or the department, may classify air contaminant sources, by ordinance, resolution, rule or regulation, which in its judgment ...

70.94.152 Notice may be required of construction of proposed new contaminant source -- Submission of plans -- Approval, disapproval -- Emission control -- "De minimis new sources" defined
(1) The department of ecology or board of any authority may require notice of the establishment of any proposed new sources except single family and ...

70.94.153 Existing stationary source -- Replacement or substantial alteration of emission control technology
Any person proposing to replace or substantially alter the emission control technology installed on an existing stationary source emission unit shall file a notice of ...

70.94.154 RACT requirements
(1) RACT as defined in RCW 70.94.030 is required for existing sources except as otherwise provided in RCW 70.94.331(9). (2) RACT for each source category ...

70.94.155 Control of emissions -- Bubble concept -- Schedules of compliance
(1) As used in subsection (3) of this section, the term "bubble" means an air pollution control system which permits aggregate measurements of allowable emissions, ...

70.94.157 Preemption of uniform building and fire codes
The department and local air pollution control authorities shall preempt the application of chapter 9 of the uniform building code and article 80 of the ...

70.94.161 Operating permits for air contaminant sources -- Generally -- Fees, report to legislature
The department of ecology, or board of an authority, shall require renewable permits for the operation of air contaminant sources subject to the following conditions ...

70.94.162 Annual fees from operating permit program source to cover cost of program
(1) The department and delegated local air authorities are authorized to determine, assess, and collect, and each permit program source shall pay, annual fees sufficient ...

70.94.163 Source categories not required to have a permit -- Recommendations
The department shall prepare recommendations to reduce air emissions for source categories not generally required to have a permit under RCW 70.94.161. Such recommendations shall ...

70.94.165 Gasoline recovery devices -- Limitation on requiring
(1) A gasoline vapor recovery device that captures vapors during vehicle fueling may only be required at a service station, or any other gasoline dispensing ...

70.94.170 Air pollution control authority control officer
Any activated authority which has adopted an ordinance, resolution, or valid rules and regulations as provided herein for the control and prevention of air pollution ...

70.94.181 Variances -- Application for -- Considerations -- Limitations -- Renewals--Review
(1) Any person who owns or is in control of any plant, building, structure, establishment, process or equipment may apply to the department of ecology ...

70.94.200 Investigation of conditions by control officer or department -- Entering private, public property
For the purpose of investigating conditions specific to the control, recovery or release of air contaminants into the atmosphere, a control officer, the department, or ...

70.94.205 Confidentiality of records and information
Whenever any records or other information, other than ambient air quality data or emission data, furnished to or obtained by the department of ecology or ...

70.94.211 Enforcement actions by air authority -- Notice to violators
At least thirty days prior to the commencement of any formal enforcement action under RCW 70.94.430 or 70.94.431 a local air authority shall cause written ...

70.94.221 Order final unless appealed to pollution control hearings board
Any order issued by the board or by the control officer, shall become final unless such order is appealed to the hearings board as provided ...

70.94.230 Rules of authority supersede local rules, regulations, etc. -- Exceptions
The rules and regulations hereafter adopted by an authority under the provisions of this chapter shall supersede the existing rules, regulations, resolutions and ordinances of ...

70.94.231 Air pollution control authority -- Dissolution of prior districts -- Continuation of rules and regulations until superseded
Upon the date that an authority begins to exercise its powers and functions, all rules and regulations in force on such date shall remain in ...

70.94.240 Air pollution control advisory council
The board of any authority may appoint an air pollution control advisory council to advise and consult with such board, and the control officer in ...

70.94.260 Dissolution of authority -- Deactivation of authority
An air pollution control authority may be deactivated prior to the term provided in the original or subsequent agreement by the county or counties comprising ...

70.94.262 Withdrawal from multicounty authority
(1) Any county that is part of a multicounty authority, pursuant to RCW 70.94.053, may withdraw from the multicounty authority after January 1, 1992, if ...

70.94.331 Powers and duties of department
(1) The department shall have all the powers as provided in RCW 70.94.141. (2) The department, in addition to any other powers vested in it ...

70.94.332 Enforcement actions by department -- Notice to violators
At least thirty days prior to the commencement of any formal enforcement action under RCW 70.94.430 and 70.94.431, the department of ecology shall cause written ...

70.94.335 Hazardous substance remedial actions -- Procedural requirements not applicable
The procedural requirements of this chapter shall not apply to any person conducting a remedial action at a facility pursuant to a consent decree, order, ...

70.94.350 Contracts, agreements for use of personnel by department -- Reimbursement -- Merit system regulations waived
The department is authorized to contract for or otherwise agree to the use of personnel of municipal corporations or other agencies or private persons; and ...

70.94.370 Powers and rights of governmental units and persons are not limited by act or recommendations
No provision of this chapter or any recommendation of the state board or of any local or regional air pollution program is a limitation: (1) ...

70.94.380 Emission control requirements
(1) Every activated authority operating an air pollution control program shall have requirements for the control of emissions which are no less stringent than those ...

70.94.385 State financial aid -- Application for -- Requirements
(1) Any authority may apply to the department for state financial aid. The department shall annually establish the amount of state funds available for the ...

70.94.390 Hearing upon activation of authority -- Finding -- Assumption of jurisdiction by department -- Expenses
The department may, at any time and on its own motion, hold a hearing to determine if the activation of an authority is necessary for ...

70.94.395 Air contaminant sources -- Regulation by department; authorities may be more stringent -- Hearing -- Standards
If the department finds, after public hearing upon due notice to all interested parties, that the emissions from a particular type or class of air ...

70.94.400 Order activating authority -- Filing -- Hearing -- Amendment of order
If, at the end of ninety days after the department issues a report as provided for in RCW 70.94.390, to appropriate county or counties recommending ...

70.94.405 Air pollution control authority -- Review by department of program
At any time after an authority has been activated for no less than one year, the department may, on its own motion, conduct a hearing ...

70.94.410 Air pollution control authority -- Assumption of control by department
(1) If, after thirty days from the time that the department issues a report or order to an authority under RCW 70.94.400 and 70.94.405, such ...

70.94.420 State departments and agencies to cooperate with department and authorities
It is declared to be the intent of the legislature of the state of Washington that any state department or agency having jurisdiction over any ...

70.94.422 Department of health powers regarding radionuclides -- Energy facility site evaluation council authority over permit program sources
(1) The department of health shall have all the enforcement powers as provided in RCW 70.94.332, 70.94.425, 70.94.430, 70.94.431 (1) through (7), and 70.94.435 with ...

70.94.425 Restraining orders -- Injunctions
Notwithstanding the existence or use of any other remedy, whenever any person has engaged in, or is about to engage in, any acts or practices ...

70.94.430 Penalties
(1) Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of chapter 70.94 or 70.120 RCW, or any ordinance, resolution, or regulation in force pursuant ...

70.94.431 Civil penalties -- Excusable excess emissions
(1) Except as provided in RCW 43.05.060 through 43.05.080 and 43.05.150, and in addition to or as an alternate to any other penalty provided by ...

70.94.435 Additional means for enforcement of chapter
As an additional means of enforcing this chapter, the governing body or board may accept an assurance of discontinuance of any act or practice deemed ...

70.94.440 Short title
This chapter may be known and cited as the "Washington Clean Air Act".[1967 c 238 § 63.]Notes: Short title -- 1991 c 199: "This chapter ...

70.94.445 Air pollution control facilities -- Tax exemptions and credits
See chapter 82.34 RCW. ...

70.94.450 Wood stoves -- Policy
In the interest of the public health and welfare and in keeping with the objectives of RCW 70.94.011, the legislature declares it to be the ...

70.94.453 Wood stoves -- Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 70.94.453 through *70.94.487: (1) "Department" means the department of ecology. (2) ...

70.94.455 Residential and commercial construction -- Burning and heating device standards
After January 1, 1992, no used solid fuel burning device shall be installed in new or existing buildings unless such device is either Oregon department ...

70.94.457 Solid fuel burning devices -- Emission performance standards
The department of ecology shall establish by rule under chapter 34.05 RCW: (1) Statewide emission performance standards for new solid fuel burning devices. Notwithstanding any ...

70.94.460 Sale of unapproved wood stoves -- Prohibited
After July 1, 1988, no person shall sell, offer to sell, or knowingly advertise to sell a new wood stove in this state to a ...

70.94.463 Sale of unapproved wood stoves -- Penalty
After July 1, 1988, any person who sells, offers to sell, or knowingly advertises to sell a new wood stove in this state in violation ...

70.94.467 Sale of unapproved wood stoves -- Application of law to advertising media
Nothing in RCW 70.94.460 or 70.94.463 shall apply to a radio station, television station, publisher, printer, or distributor of a newspaper, magazine, billboard, or other ...

70.94.470 Residential solid fuel burning devices -- Opacity levels -- Enforcement and public education
(1) The department shall establish, by rule under chapter 34.05 RCW, (a) a statewide opacity level of twenty percent for residential solid fuel burning devices ...

70.94.473 Limitations on burning wood for heat -- First and second stage burn bans -- Report on second stage burn ban -- Report to the legislature
(1) Any person in a residence or commercial establishment which has an adequate source of heat without burning wood shall: (a) Not burn wood in ...

70.94.475 Liability of condominium owners' association or resident association
A condominium owners' association or an association formed by residents of a multiple-family dwelling are not liable for violations of RCW 70.94.473 by a resident ...

70.94.477 Limitations on use of solid fuel burning devices
(1) Unless allowed by rule, under chapter 34.05 RCW, a person shall not cause or allow any of the following materials to be burned in ...

70.94.480 Wood stove education program
(1) The department of ecology shall establish a program to educate wood stove dealers and the public about: (a) The effects of wood stove emissions ...

70.94.483 Wood stove education and enforcement account created -- Fee imposed on solid fuel burning device sales
(1) The wood stove education and enforcement account is hereby created in the state treasury. Money placed in the account shall include all money received ...

70.94.488 Woodsmoke emissions -- Findings
The legislature finds that there are some communities in the state in which the national ambient air quality standards for PM 2.5 are exceeded, primarily ...

70.94.505 Woodsmoke emissions -- Work group
(1) The department shall convene and chair a work group to study the impacts of woodsmoke from solid fuel burning devices on communities in Washington ...

70.94.510 Policy to cooperate with federal government
It is declared to be the policy of the state of Washington through the department of ecology to cooperate with the federal government in order ...

70.94.521 Transportation demand management -- Findings
The legislature finds that automotive traffic in Washington's metropolitan areas is the major source of emissions of air contaminants. This air pollution causes significant harm ...

70.94.524 Transportation demand management -- Definitions
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "A major employer" means a private or public employer, ...

70.94.527 Transportation demand management -- Requirements for counties and cities
(1) Each county containing an urban growth area, designated pursuant to RCW 36.70A.110, and each city within an urban growth area with a state highway ...

70.94.528 Transportation demand management -- Growth and transportation efficiency centers
(1) A county, city, or town may, as part of its commute trip reduction plan, designate existing activity centers listed in its comprehensive plan or ...

70.94.531 Transportation demand management -- Requirements for employers
(1) State agency worksites are subject to the same requirements under this section and RCW 70.94.534 as private employers. (2) Not more than ninety days ...

70.94.534 Transportation demand management -- Jurisdictions' review and penalties
(1) Each jurisdiction implementing a commute trip reduction plan under this chapter or as part of a plan or ordinance developed under RCW 36.70A.070 shall ...

70.94.537 Transportation demand management -- Commute trip reduction board
(1) A sixteen member state commute trip reduction board is established as follows: (a) The secretary of the department of transportation or the secretary's designee ...

70.94.541 Transportation demand management -- Technical assistance
(1) The department of transportation shall provide staff support to the commute trip reduction board in carrying out the requirements of RCW 70.94.537. (2) The ...

70.94.544 Transportation demand management -- Use of funds
A portion of the funds made available for the purposes of this chapter shall be used to fund the commute trip reduction board in carrying ...

70.94.547 Transportation demand management -- Intent -- State leadership
The legislature hereby recognizes the state's crucial leadership role in establishing and implementing effective commute trip reduction programs. Therefore, it is the policy of the ...

70.94.551 Transportation demand management -- State agencies -- Reports
(1) The director of the department of general administration may coordinate an interagency board for the purpose of developing policies or guidelines that promote consistency ...

70.94.555 Transportation demand management -- Collective bargaining powers unaffected
Nothing in chapter 329, Laws of 2006 preempts the ability of state employees to collectively bargain over commute trip reduction issues, including parking fees under ...

70.94.600 Reports of authorities to department of ecology -- Contents
All authorities in the state shall submit quarterly reports to the department of ecology detailing the current status of air pollution control regulations in the ...

70.94.610 Burning used oil fuel in land-based facilities
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a person may not burn used oil as fuel in a land-based facility or in ...

70.94.620 Metals mining and milling operations permits -- Inspections by department of ecology
If a metals mining and milling operation is issued a permit pursuant to this chapter, then it will be subject to special inspection requirements. The ...

70.94.630 Sulfur dioxide abatement account -- Coal-fired thermal electric generation facilities -- Application -- Determination and assessment of progress -- Certification of pollution level -- Reimbursement -- Time limit for and extension of account
(1) The sulfur dioxide abatement account is created. All receipts from subsection (2) of this section must be deposited in the account. Expenditures in the ...

70.94.640 Odors or fugitive dust caused by agricultural activities consistent with good agricultural practices exempt from chapter
(1) Odors or fugitive dust caused by agricultural activity consistent with good agricultural practices on agricultural land are exempt from the requirements of this chapter ...

70.94.645 Ammonia emissions from use as agricultural or silvicultural fertilizer -- Regulation prohibited
The department shall not regulate ammonia emissions resulting from the storage, distribution, transport, or application of ammonia for use as an agricultural or silvicultural fertilizer.[1996 ...

70.94.650 Burning permits for weed abatement, fire fighting instruction, or agriculture activities -- Issuance -- Agricultural burning practices and research task force -- Exemption for aircraft crash fire rescue training activities
(1) Any person who proposes to set fires in the course of: (a) Weed abatement; (b) Instruction in methods of fire fighting, except training to ...

70.94.651 Burning permits for regeneration of rare and endangered plants; Indian ceremonies
Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit fires necessary: (1) To promote the regeneration of rare and endangered plants found within natural area preserves as ...

70.94.654 Delegation of permit issuance and enforcement to political subdivisions
Whenever an air pollution control authority, or the department of ecology for areas outside the jurisdictional boundaries of an activated air pollution control authority, shall ...

70.94.656 Open burning of grasses grown for seed -- Alternatives -- Studies -- Deposit of permit fees in special grass seed burning account -- Procedures -- Limitations -- Report
It is hereby declared to be the policy of this state that strong efforts should be made to minimize adverse effects on air quality from ...

70.94.660 Burning permits for abating or prevention of forest fire hazards, management of ecosystems, instruction or silvicultural operations -- Issuance
(1) The department of natural resources shall have the responsibility for issuing and regulating burning permits required by it relating to the following activities for ...

70.94.665 Silvicultural forest burning -- Reduce statewide emissions -- Exemption -- Monitoring program
(1) The department of natural resources shall administer a program to reduce statewide emissions from silvicultural forest burning so as to achieve the following minimum ...

70.94.670 Burning permits for abating or prevention of forest fire hazards, management of ecosystems, instruction or silvicultural operations -- Conditions for issuance and use of permits -- Air quality standards to be met -- Alternate methods to lessen forest debris
The department of natural resources in granting burning permits for fires for the purposes set forth in RCW 70.94.660 shall condition the issuance and use ...

70.94.690 Cooperation between department of natural resources and state, local, or regional air pollution authorities -- Withholding of permits
In the regulation of outdoor burning not included in RCW 70.94.660 requiring permits from the department of natural resources, said department and the state, local, ...

70.94.700 Rules and regulations
The department of natural resources and the department of ecology may adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement their respective responsibilities under the provisions of ...

70.94.710 Air pollution episodes -- Legislative finding -- Declaration of policy
The legislature finds that whenever meteorological conditions occur which reduce the effective volume of air into which air contaminants are introduced, there is a high ...

70.94.715 Air pollution episodes -- Episode avoidance plan -- Contents -- Source emission reduction plans -- Authority -- Considered orders
The department of ecology is hereby authorized to develop an episode avoidance plan providing for the phased reduction of emissions wherever and whenever an air ...

70.94.720 Air pollution episodes -- Declaration of air pollution emergency by governor
Whenever the governor finds that emissions from the operation of one or more air contaminant sources is causing imminent danger to public health or safety, ...

70.94.725 Air pollution episodes -- Restraining orders, temporary injunctions to enforce orders -- Procedure
Whenever any order has been issued pursuant to RCW 70.94.710 through 70.94.730, the attorney general, upon request from the governor, the director of the department ...

70.94.730 Air pollution episodes -- Orders to be effective immediately
Orders issued to declare any stage of an air pollution episode avoidance plan under RCW 70.94.715, and to declare an air pollution emergency, under RCW ...

70.94.743 Outdoor burning -- Areas where prohibited -- Exceptions -- Use for management of storm or flood-related debris -- Silvicultural burning
(1) Consistent with the policy of the state to reduce outdoor burning to the greatest extent practical: (a) Outdoor burning shall not be allowed in ...

70.94.745 Limited outdoor burning -- Program -- Exceptions
(1) It shall be the responsibility and duty of the department of natural resources, department of ecology, department of agriculture, fire districts, and local air ...

70.94.750 Limited outdoor burning -- Permits issued by political subdivisions -- Types of fires permitted
The following outdoor fires described in this section may be burned subject to the provisions of this chapter and also subject to city ordinances, county ...

70.94.755 Limited outdoor burning -- Establishment of program
Each activated air pollution control authority, and the department of ecology in those areas outside the jurisdictional boundaries of an activated air pollution control authority, ...

70.94.760 Limited outdoor burning -- Construction
Nothing contained in RCW *70.94.740 through 70.94.765 is intended to alter or change the provisions of RCW 70.94.660, 70.94.710 through 70.94.730, and 76.04.205.[1986 c 100 ...

70.94.765 Limited outdoor burning -- Authority of local air pollution control authority or department of ecology to allow outdoor fires not restricted
Nothing in RCW *70.94.740 through 70.94.765 shall be construed as prohibiting a local air pollution control authority or the department of ecology in those areas ...

70.94.775 Outdoor burning -- Fires prohibited -- Exceptions
Except as provided in RCW 70.94.650(5), no person shall cause or allow any outdoor fire: (1) Containing garbage, dead animals, asphalt, petroleum products, paints, rubber ...

70.94.780 Outdoor burning -- Permits issued by political subdivisions
In addition to any other powers granted to them by law, the fire protection agency, county, or conservation district issuing burning permits shall regulate or ...

70.94.785 Plans approved pursuant to federal clean air act -- Enforcement authority
Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, except RCW 70.94.660 through 70.94.690, the department of ecology, upon its approval of any plan (or ...

70.94.800 Legislative declaration -- Intent
The legislature recognizes that: (1) Acid deposition resulting from commercial, industrial or other emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides pose a threat to the ...

70.94.805 Definitions
As used in RCW 70.94.800 through *70.94.825, the following terms have the following meanings. (1) "Acid deposition" means wet or dry deposition from the atmosphere ...

70.94.820 Monitoring by department of ecology
The department of ecology shall maintain a program of periodic monitoring of acid rain deposition and lake, stream, and soil acidification to ensure early detection ...

70.94.850 Emission credits banking program -- Amount of credit
The department of ecology and the local boards may implement an emission credits banking program. For the purposes of this section, an emission credits banking ...

70.94.860 Department of ecology may accept delegation of programs
The department of ecology may accept delegation of programs as provided for in the federal clean air act. Subject to federal approval, the department may, ...

70.94.875 Evaluation of information on acid deposition in Pacific Northwest -- Establishment of critical levels -- Notification of legislature
The department of ecology, in consultation with the appropriate committees of the house of representatives and of the senate, shall: (1) Continue evaluation of information ...

70.94.880 Establishment of critical deposition and acidification levels -- Considerations
In establishing critical levels of acid deposition and lake, stream, and soil acidification, the department of ecology shall consider: (1) Current acid deposition and lake, ...

70.94.892 Carbon dioxide mitigation -- Fees
(1) For fossil-fueled electric generation facilities having more than twenty-five thousand kilowatts station generating capability but less than three hundred fifty thousand kilowatts station generation ...

70.94.901 Construction -- 1967 c 238
This 1967 amendatory act shall not be construed to create in any way nor to enlarge, diminish or otherwise affect in any way any private ...

70.94.902 Construction, repeal of RCW 70.94.061 through 70.94.066 -- Saving
The following acts or parts of acts are each repealed: (1) Section 7, chapter 238, Laws of 1967, and RCW 70.94.061; (2) Section 8, chapter ...

70.94.904 Effective dates -- 1991 c 199
Sections 602 and 603 of this act shall take effect July 1, 1992. Sections 202 through 209 of this act shall take effect January 1, ...

70.94.905 Severability -- 1991 c 199
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...

70.94.906 Captions not law
Captions and headings as used in this act constitute no part of the law.[1991 c 199 § 720.] ...

70.94.911 Severability -- 1967 c 238
If any phrase, clause, subsection or section of this 1967 amendatory act shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, it ...

70.94.950 Disincorporation of district located in county with a population of two hundred ten thousand or more and inactive for five years
See chapter 57.90 RCW. ...

70.94.960 Clean fuel matching grants for public transit, vehicle mechanics, and refueling infrastructure
The department may disburse matching grants from funds provided by the legislature from the air pollution control account, created in RCW 70.94.015, to units of ...

70.94.970 Chlorofluorocarbons -- Ozone -- Refrigerants regulated
(1) Regulated refrigerant means a class I or class II substance as listed in Title VI of section 602 of the federal clean air act ...

70.94.980 Refrigerants -- Unlawful acts
No person may sell, offer for sale, or purchase any of the following: (1) A regulated refrigerant in a container designed for consumer recharge of ...

70.94.990 Refrigerants -- Rules -- Enforcement provisions, limitations
The department shall adopt rules to implement RCW 70.94.970 and 70.94.980. Rules shall include but not be limited to minimum performance specifications for refrigerant extraction ...

70.94.996 Grant program for ride sharing
(1) To the extent that funds are appropriated, the department of transportation shall administer a performance-based grant program for private employers, public agencies, nonprofit organizations, ...