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WA Rev Code § 70A.212.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.100 - Certificates—Fees—Department duties.

RCW 70A.212.100 Certificates—Fees—Department duties.(1) The department shall establish and collect fees for the issuance and renewal of wastewater treatment plant operator certificates as provided for in RCW 70A.212.090. The department, with the advice of an advisory committee, shall establish an initial fee schedule by rule. Fees shall be established in amounts to fully recover and not to exceed expenses incurred by the department to administer the wastewater operator certification program, to include evaluating applications necessary to verify compliance with certification requirements, maintaining and administering credible examinations, ensuring operators receive necessary training, outreach, and technical assistance, enforcing certification program requirements, providing necessary education and training to program staff, and supporting the overhead expenses related to administering the wastewater operator certification program.(2) Once the initial fee schedule is adopted by rule, the department shall conduct a workload analysis and prepare a biennial budget estimate for the wastewater treatment plant operator certification program. Thereafter, the department shall assess and collect fees from all wastewater treatment plant operators at a level that fully recovers the costs identified in its biennial operating budget.(3) If fee increases above the state's fiscal growth factor are proposed, due to an expansion of the wastewater operator certification program, the department must submit a report to the legislature describing the need for the increase.[ 2020 c 20 § 1209; 2018 c 213 § 2; 1987 c 357 § 9. Formerly RCW 70.95B.095.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.110 - Certificates—Revocation procedures.

RCW 70A.212.110 Certificates—Revocation procedures.The director may, after conducting a hearing, revoke a certificate found to have been obtained by fraud or deceit, or for gross negligence in the operation of a waste treatment plant, or for violating the requirements of this chapter or any lawful rule, order or regulation of the department. No person whose certificate is revoked under this section shall be eligible to apply for a certificate for one year from the effective date of this final order or revocation.[ 1995 c 269 § 2903; 1973 c 139 § 10. Formerly RCW 70.95B.100.]NOTES:Effective date—Part headings not law—Severability—1995 c 269: See notes following RCW 18.16.050.
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.120 - Administration of chapter—Powers and duties of director.

RCW 70A.212.120 Administration of chapter—Powers and duties of director.To carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter, the director is authorized and empowered to:(1) Enter into agreements, contracts, or cooperative arrangements, under such terms and conditions as the director deems appropriate with other state, federal, or interstate agencies, municipalities, education institutions, or other organizations or individuals.(2) Receive financial and technical assistance from the federal government and other public or private agencies.(3) Participate in related programs of the federal government, other states, interstate agencies, or other public or private agencies or organizations.(4) Upon request, furnish reports, information, and materials relating to the certification program authorized by this chapter to federal, state, or interstate agencies, municipalities, education institutions, and other organizations and individuals.(5) Establish adequate fiscal controls and accounting procedures to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for funds appropriated or otherwise provided for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.[ 1987 c 357 § 7; 1973 c 139 § 11. Formerly RCW 70.95B.110.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.130 - Licenses or certificates—Suspension for noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.

RCW 70A.212.130 Licenses or certificates—Suspension for noncompliance with support order—Reissuance.The director shall immediately suspend the license or certificate of a person who has been certified pursuant to RCW 74.20A.320 by the department of social and health services as a person who is not in compliance with a support order or a *residential or visitation order. If the person has continued to meet all other requirements for reinstatement during the suspension, reissuance of the license or certificate shall be automatic upon the director's receipt of a release issued by the department of social and health services stating that the licensee is in compliance with the order.[ 1997 c 58 § 876. Formerly RCW 70.95B.115.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: 1997 c 58 § 886 requiring a court to order certification of noncompliance with residential provisions of a court-ordered parenting plan was vetoed. Provisions ordering the department of social and health services to certify a responsible parent based on a court order to certify for noncompliance with residential provisions of a parenting plan were vetoed. See RCW 74.20A.320.Short title—Part headings, captions, table of contents not law—Exemptions and waivers from federal law—Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—1997 c 58: See RCW 74.08A.900 through 74.08A.904.Effective dates—Intent—1997 c 58: See notes following RCW 74.20A.320.
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.140 - Violations.

RCW 70A.212.140 Violations.On and after one year following July 1, 1973, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision or agency to operate a wastewater treatment plant unless the individuals identified in RCW 70A.212.030 are duly certified by the director under the provisions of this chapter or any lawful rule, order, or regulation of the department. It shall also be unlawful for any person to perform the duties of an operator as defined in this chapter, or in any lawful rule, order, or regulation of the department, without being duly certified under the provisions of this chapter.[ 2020 c 20 § 1210; 1987 c 357 § 8; 1973 c 139 § 12. Formerly RCW 70.95B.120.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.150 - Certificates—Reciprocity with other states.

RCW 70A.212.150 Certificates—Reciprocity with other states.On or after July 1, 1973, certification of operators by any state which, as determined by the director, accepts certifications made or certification requirements deemed satisfied pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall be accorded reciprocal treatment and shall be recognized as valid and sufficient within the purview of this chapter, if in the judgment of the director the certification requirements of such state are substantially equivalent to the requirements of this chapter or any rules or regulations promulgated hereunder.In making determinations pursuant to this section, the director shall consult with the *board and may consider any generally applicable criteria and guidelines developed by the nationally recognized association of certification authorities.[ 1973 c 139 § 13. Formerly RCW 70.95B.130.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: RCW 70.95B.070, which created the water and wastewater operator certification board of examiners, was repealed by 1995 c 269 § 2907, effective July 1, 1995.
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.160 - Penalties for violations—Injunctions.

RCW 70A.212.160 Penalties for violations—Injunctions.Any person, including any firm, corporation, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision or agency violating any provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day of operation in such violation of this chapter or any rules or regulations adopted hereunder shall constitute a separate offense. Upon conviction, violators shall be fined an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney or the attorney general, as appropriate, to secure injunctions of continuing violations of any provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted hereunder.[ 1973 c 139 § 14. Formerly RCW 70.95B.140.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.170 - Wastewater treatment plant operator certification account—Administration of chapter—Receipts.

RCW 70A.212.170 Wastewater treatment plant operator certification account—Administration of chapter—Receipts.The wastewater treatment plant operator certification account is created in the state treasury. All fees paid pursuant to RCW 70A.212.100 and any other receipts realized in the administration of this chapter must be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Moneys from the account must be used by the department to carry out the purposes of the wastewater treatment plant operator certification program.[ 2020 c 20 § 1211; 2017 c 35 § 1. Formerly RCW 70.95B.151.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.212.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.212 - Domestic Waste Treatment Plants—Operators.|70A.212.900 - Effective date—1973 c 139.

RCW 70A.212.900 Effective date—1973 c 139.This 1973 act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect on July 1, 1973.[ 1973 c 139 § 17. Formerly RCW 70.95B.900.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.010 - Legislative findings.

RCW 70A.214.010 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 must dispose of the waste. In order to address this problem in the most cost-effective and environmentally sound manner, and to implement the highest waste management priority as articulated in RCW 70A.205.005 and 70A.300.260, public and private efforts should focus on reducing the generation of waste. Waste reduction can be achieved by encouraging voluntary efforts to redesign industrial, commercial, production, and other processes to result in the reduction or elimination of waste by-products and to maximize the in-process reuse or reclamation of valuable spent material.In the interest of protecting the public health, safety, and the environment, the legislature declares that it is the policy of the state of Washington to encourage reduction in the use of hazardous substances and reduction in the generation of hazardous waste whenever economically and technically practicable.The legislature finds that hazardous wastes are generated by numerous different sources including, but not limited to, large and small business, households, and state and local government. The legislature further finds that a goal against which efforts at waste reduction may be measured is essential for an effective hazardous waste reduction program. The Pacific Northwest hazardous waste advisory council has endorsed a goal of reducing, through hazardous substance use reduction and waste reduction techniques, the generation of hazardous waste by fifty percent by 1995. The legislature adopts this as a policy goal for the state of Washington. The legislature recognizes that many individual businesses have already reduced the generation of hazardous waste through appropriate hazardous waste reduction techniques. The legislature also recognizes that there are some basic industrial processes which by their nature have limited potential for significantly reducing the use of certain raw materials or substantially reducing the generation of hazardous wastes. Therefore, the goal of reducing hazardous waste generation by fifty percent cannot be applied as a regulatory requirement.[ 2020 c 20 § 1212; 1990 c 114 § 1; 1988 c 177 § 1. Formerly RCW 70.95C.010.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.030 - Office of waste reduction—Duties.

RCW 70A.214.030 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 substance usage and waste generation by waste generators and hazardous substance users. The office shall prepare and submit a quarterly progress report to the director.(2) The office shall be the coordinating center for all state agency programs that provide technical assistance to waste generators and hazardous substance users and shall serve as the state's lead agency and promoter for such programs. In addition to this coordinating function, the office shall encourage hazardous substance use reduction and waste reduction by:(a) Providing for the rendering of advice and consultation to waste generators and hazardous substance users on hazardous substance use reduction and waste reduction techniques, including assistance in preparation of plans provided for in RCW 70A.214.110;(b) Sponsoring or co-sponsoring with public or private organizations technical workshops and seminars on waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction;(c) Administering a waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction database and hotline providing comprehensive referral services to waste generators and hazardous substance users;(d) Administering a waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction research and development program;(e) Coordinating a waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction public education program that includes the utilization of existing publications from public and private sources, as well as publishing necessary new materials on waste reduction;(f) Recommending to institutions of higher education in the state courses and curricula in areas related to waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction; and(g) Operating an intern program in cooperation with institutions of higher education and other outside resources to provide technical assistance on hazardous substance use reduction and waste reduction techniques and to carry out research projects as needed within the office.[ 2020 c 20 § 1214; 1998 c 245 § 133; 1990 c 114 § 3; 1988 c 177 § 3. Formerly RCW 70.95C.030.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.040 - Waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction consultation program.

RCW 70A.214.040 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 substance use reduction consultation programs.(2) The director may grant a request by any waste generator or hazardous substance user for advice and consultation on waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction techniques and assistance in preparation or modification of a plan, executive summary, or annual progress report, or assistance in the implementation of a plan required by RCW 70A.214.110. Pursuant to a request from a facility such as a business, governmental entity, or other process site in the state, the director may visit the facility making the request for the purposes of observing hazardous substance use and the waste-generating process, obtaining information relevant to waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction, rendering advice, and making recommendations. No such visit may be regarded as an inspection or investigation, and no notices or citations may be issued, or civil penalty be assessed, upon such a visit. A representative of the director providing advisory or consultative services under this section may not have any enforcement authority.(3) Consultation and advice given under this section shall be limited to the matters specified in the request and shall include specific techniques of waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction tailored to the relevant process. In granting any request for advisory or consultative services, the director may provide for an alternative means of affording consultation and advice other than on-site consultation.(4) Any proprietary information obtained by the director while carrying out the duties required under this section shall remain confidential and shall not be publicized or become part of the database established under RCW 70A.214.060 without written permission of the requesting party.[ 2020 c 20 § 1215; 1990 c 114 § 5; 1988 c 177 § 4. Formerly RCW 70.95C.040.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.050 - Waste reduction techniques—Workshops and seminars.

RCW 70A.214.050 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 been successfully used to eliminate or reduce substantially the amount of waste or toxicity of hazardous waste generated, or that use in-process reclamation or reuse of spent material.[ 1988 c 177 § 5. Formerly RCW 70.95C.050.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.060 - Waste reduction hotline—Database system.

RCW 70A.214.060 Waste reduction hotline—Database system.(1) The office shall establish a statewide waste reduction hotline with the capacity to refer waste generators and the public to sources of information on specific waste reduction techniques and procedures. The hotline shall coordinate with all other state waste hotlines.(2) The director shall work with the state library to establish a database system that shall include proven waste reduction techniques and case studies of effective waste reduction. The database system shall be: (a) Coordinated with all other state agency databases on waste reduction; (b) administered in conjunction with the statewide waste reduction hotline; and (c) readily accessible to the public.[ 1988 c 177 § 6. Formerly RCW 70.95C.060.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.070 - Waste reduction research and development program—Contracts.

RCW 70A.214.070 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 of developing methods and technologies that achieve waste reduction. All research performed and all methods or technologies developed as a result of a contract entered into under this section shall become the property of the state and shall be incorporated into the database system established under RCW 70A.214.060.(2) Any contract entered into under this section shall be awarded only after requests for proposals have been circulated to persons, firms, or organizations who have requested that their names be placed on a proposal list. The director shall establish a proposal list and shall review and evaluate all proposals received.[ 2020 c 20 § 1216; 1988 c 177 § 7. Formerly RCW 70.95C.070.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.080 - Director's authority.

RCW 70A.214.080 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 reduction.(2) The director may enter into contracts with any public or private organization to carry out the purposes of this chapter.[ 1988 c 177 § 8. Formerly RCW 70.95C.080.]
WA Rev Code § 70A.214.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety|Chapter 70A.214 - Waste Reduction.|70A.214.090 - Waste reduction and recycling program to promote activities by state agencies—Recycled paper goal.

RCW 70A.214.090 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 actions must be taken to reduce and recycle these wastes and thus reduce the costs associated with their disposal. In order for the operations of state government to provide the citizens of the state an example of positive waste management, the legislature further finds and declares that state government should undertake an aggressive program designed to reduce and recycle solid and hazardous wastes produced in the operations of state buildings and facilities to the maximum extent possible.The office of waste reduction, in cooperation with the department of enterprise services, shall establish an intensive waste reduction and recycling program to promote the reduction of waste produced by state agencies and to promote the source separation and recovery of recyclable and reusable materials.All state agencies, including but not limited to, colleges, community colleges, universities, offices of elected and appointed officers, the supreme court, court of appeals, and administrative departments of state government shall fully cooperate with the office of waste reduction and recycling in all phases of implementing the provisions of this section. The office shall establish a coordinated state plan identifying each agency's participation in waste reduction and recycling. The office shall develop the plan in cooperation with a multiagency committee on waste reduction and recycling. Appointments to the committee shall be made by the director of the department of enterprise services. The director shall notify each agency of the committee, which shall implement the applicable waste reduction and recycling plan elements. All state agencies are to use maximum efforts to achieve a goal of increasing the use of recycled paper by fifty percent by July 1, 1993.[ 2015 c 225 § 107; 1989 c 431 § 53. Formerly RCW 70.95C.110.]