Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.95C Waste Reduction
- 70.95C.010 Legislative findings
The legislature finds that land disposal and incineration of solid and hazardous waste can be both harmful to the environment and costly to those who ...
- 70.95C.020 Definitions
As used in this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly requires otherwise. (1) "Department" means the department of ecology. ...
- 70.95C.030 Office of waste reduction -- Duties
(1) There is established in the department an office of waste reduction. The office shall use its authorities to encourage the voluntary reduction of hazardous ...
- 70.95C.040 Waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction consultation program
(1) The office shall establish a waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction consultation program to be coordinated with other state waste reduction and hazardous ...
- 70.95C.050 Waste reduction techniques -- Workshops and seminars
The office, in coordination with all other state waste reduction technical assistance programs, shall sponsor technical workshops and seminars on waste reduction techniques that have ...
- 70.95C.060 Waste reduction hot line -- Database system
(1) The office shall establish a statewide waste reduction hot line with the capacity to refer waste generators and the public to sources of information ...
- 70.95C.070 Waste reduction research and development program -- Contracts
(1) The office may administer a waste reduction research and development program. The director may contract with any public or private organization for the purpose ...
- 70.95C.080 Director's authority
(1) The director may solicit and accept gifts, grants, conveyances, bequests, and devises, in trust or otherwise, to be directed to the office of waste ...
- 70.95C.110 Waste reduction and recycling program to promote activities by state agencies -- Recycled paper goal
The legislature finds and declares that the buildings and facilities owned and leased by state government produce significant amounts of solid and hazardous wastes, and ...
- 70.95C.120 Waste reduction and recycling awards program in K-12 public schools -- Encouraging waste reduction and recycling in private schools
The office of waste reduction shall develop, in consultation with the superintendent of public instruction, an awards program to achieve waste reduction and recycling in ...
- 70.95C.200 Hazardous waste generators and users -- Voluntary reduction plan
(1) Each hazardous waste generator who generates more than two thousand six hundred forty pounds of hazardous waste per year and each hazardous substance user, ...
- 70.95C.210 Voluntary reduction plan -- Exemption
A person required to prepare a plan under RCW 70.95C.200 because of the quantity of hazardous waste generated may petition the director to be excused ...
- 70.95C.220 Voluntary reduction plan, executive summary, or progress report -- Department review
(1) The department may review a plan, executive summary, or an annual progress report to determine whether the plan, executive summary, or annual progress report ...
- 70.95C.230 Appeal of department order or surcharge
A user or generator may appeal from a department order or a surcharge under RCW 70.95C.220 to the pollution control hearings board pursuant to chapter ...
- 70.95C.240 Public inspection of plans, summaries, progress reports
(1) The department shall make available for public inspection any executive summary or annual progress report submitted to the department. Any hazardous substance user or ...
- 70.95C.250 Multimedia permit pilot program -- Air, water, hazardous waste management
(1) Not later than January 1, 1995, the department shall designate an industry type and up to ten individual facilities within that industry type to ...
Last modified: April 7, 2009