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Timestamp: 2020-07-12 20:53:08
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Chapter 70.150 RCW: WATER QUALITY JOINT DEVELOPMENT ACT
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Chapter 70.150 RCW
70.150.010 Purpose—Legislative intent.
70.150.020 Definitions.
70.150.030 Agreements with service providers—Contents—Sources of funds for periodic payments under agreements.
70.150.040 Service agreements and related agreements—Procedural requirements.
70.150.050 Sale, lease, or assignment of public property to service provider—Use for services to public body.
70.150.060 Public body eligible for grants or loans—Use of grants or loans.
70.150.070 RCW 70.150.030 through 70.150.060 to be additional method of providing services.
70.150.080 Application of other chapters to service agreements under this chapter—Prevailing wages.
70.150.900 Short title.
RCW 70.150.010
The long-range health and economic and environmental goals for the state of Washington require the protection of the state's surface and underground waters for the health, safety, use, and enjoyment of its people. It is the purpose of this chapter to provide public bodies an additional means by which to provide for financing, development, and operation of water pollution control facilities needed for achievement of state and federal water pollution control requirements for the protection of the state's waters.
It is the intent of the legislature that public bodies be authorized to provide service from water pollution control facilities by means of service agreements with public or private parties as provided in this chapter.
[ 1986 c 244 § 1.]
RCW 70.150.020
(1) "Water pollution control facilities" or "facilities" means any facilities, systems, or subsystems owned or operated by a public body, or owned or operated by any person or entity for the purpose of providing service to a public body, for the control, collection, storage, treatment, disposal, or recycling of wastewater, including but not limited to sanitary sewage, stormwater, residential wastes, commercial wastes, industrial wastes, and agricultural wastes, that are causing or threatening the degradation of subterranean or surface bodies of water due to concentrations of conventional, nonconventional, or toxic pollutants. Water pollution control facilities do not include dams or water supply systems.
(2) "Public body" means the state of Washington or any agency, county, city or town, political subdivision, municipal corporation, or quasi-municipal corporation.
(3) "Water pollution" means such contamination, or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any surface or subterranean waters of the state, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any waters of the state as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental, or injurious to the public health, safety, or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish, or other aquatic life.
(4) "Agreement" means any agreement to which a public body and a service provider are parties by which the service provider agrees to deliver service to such public body in connection with its design, financing, construction, ownership, operation, or maintenance of water pollution control facilities in accordance with this chapter.
(5) "Service provider" means any privately owned or publicly owned profit or nonprofit corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, or other person or entity that is legally capable of contracting for and providing service with respect to the design, financing, ownership, construction, operation, or maintenance of water pollution control facilities in accordance with this chapter.
[ 1986 c 244 § 2.]
RCW 70.150.030
Agreements with service providers—Contents—Sources of funds for periodic payments under agreements.
(1) Public bodies may enter into agreements with service providers for the furnishing of service in connection with water pollution control facilities pursuant to the process set forth in RCW 70.150.040. The agreements may provide that a public body pay a minimum periodic fee in consideration of the service actually available without regard to the amount of service actually used during all or any part of the contractual period. Agreements may be for a term not to exceed forty years or the life of the facility, whichever is longer, and may be renewable.
(2) The source of funds to meet periodic payment obligations assumed by a public body pursuant to an agreement permitted under this section may be paid from taxes, or solely from user fees, charges, or other revenues pledged to the payment of the periodic obligations, or any of these sources.
[ 1986 c 244 § 3.]
RCW 70.150.050
Sale, lease, or assignment of public property to service provider—Use for services to public body.
A public body may sell, lease, or assign public property for fair market value to any service provider as part of a service agreement entered into under the authority of this chapter. The property sold or leased shall be used by the provider, directly or indirectly, in providing services to the public body. Such use may include demolition, modification, or other use of the property as may be necessary to execute the purposes of the service agreement.
[ 1986 c 244 § 5.]
RCW 70.150.060
Public body eligible for grants or loans—Use of grants or loans.
A public body that enters into a service agreement pursuant to this chapter, under which a facility is owned wholly or partly by a service provider, shall be eligible for grants or loans to the extent permitted by law or regulation as if the entire portion of the facility dedicated to service to such public body were publicly owned. The grants or loans shall be made to and shall inure to the benefit of the public body and not the service provider. Such grants or loans shall be used by the public body for all or part of its ownership interest in the facility, and/or to defray a part of the payments it makes to the service provider under a service agreement if such uses are permitted under the grant or loan program.
[ 1986 c 244 § 6.]
RCW 70.150.070
RCW 70.150.030 through 70.150.060 to be additional method of providing services.
RCW 70.150.030 through 70.150.060 shall be deemed to provide an additional method for the provision of services from and in connection with facilities and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to powers conferred by other state laws and by federal laws.
[ 2007 c 494 § 505; 2005 c 469 § 2; 1986 c 244 § 7.]
RCW 70.150.080
Application of other chapters to service agreements under this chapter—Prevailing wages.
(1) The provisions of chapters 39.12, 39.19, and * 39.25 RCW shall apply to a service agreement entered into under this chapter to the same extent as if the facilities dedicated to such service were owned by a public body.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section shall not be construed to apply to agreements or actions by persons or entities which are not undertaken pursuant to this chapter.
(3) Except for RCW 39.04.175, this chapter shall not be construed as a limitation or restriction on the application of Title 39 RCW to public bodies.
(4) Prevailing wages shall be established as the prevailing wage in the largest city of the county in which facilities are built.
[ 1986 c 244 § 8.]
RCW 70.150.900
This chapter may be cited as the water quality joint development act.
[ 1986 c 244 § 9.]