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WA Rev Code § 43.21J.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21J - Environmental and Forest Restoration Projects.|43.21J.900 - Short title—1993 c 516.

RCW 43.21J.900 Short title—1993 c 516.This act shall be known as the environmental restoration jobs act of 1993.[ 1993 c 516 § 15.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21J.901 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21J - Environmental and Forest Restoration Projects.|43.21J.901 - Section captions and part headings—1993 c 516.

RCW 43.21J.901 Section captions and part headings—1993 c 516.Section captions and part headings as used in this act constitute no part of the law.[ 1993 c 516 § 16.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21J.903 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21J - Environmental and Forest Restoration Projects.|43.21J.903 - Conflict with federal requirements—1993 c 516.

RCW 43.21J.903 Conflict with federal requirements—1993 c 516.If any part of this act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal funds to the state or the eligibility of employers in this state for federal unemployment tax credits, the conflicting part of this act is hereby declared to be inoperative solely to the extent of the conflict, and such finding or determination shall not affect the operation of the remainder of this act. The rules under this act shall meet federal requirements that are a necessary condition to the receipt of federal funds by the state or the granting of federal unemployment tax credits to employers in this state.[ 1993 c 516 § 19.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21J.904 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21J - Environmental and Forest Restoration Projects.|43.21J.904 - Effective date—1993 c 516.

RCW 43.21J.904 Effective date—1993 c 516.This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993.[ 1993 c 516 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.005 - Purpose—1997 c 381.

RCW 43.21K.005 Purpose—1997 c 381.The purpose of chapter 381, Laws of 1997 is to create a voluntary program authorizing environmental excellence program agreements with persons regulated under the environmental laws of the state of Washington, and to direct agencies of the state of Washington to solicit and support the development of agreements that use innovative environmental measures or strategies to achieve environmental results more effectively or efficiently.Agencies shall encourage environmental excellence program agreements that favor or promote pollution prevention, source reduction, or improvements in practices that are transferable to other interested entities or that can achieve better overall environmental results than required by otherwise applicable rules and requirements.In enacting chapter 381, Laws of 1997 it is not the intent of the legislature that state environmental standards be applied in a manner that could result in these state standards being waived under section 121 of the federal comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9261 [9621]).[ 1997 c 381 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.010 - Definitions.

RCW 43.21K.010 Definitions.The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "State, regional, or local agency" means an agency, board, department, authority, or commission that administers environmental laws.(2) "Coordinating agency" means the state, regional, or local agency with the primary regulatory responsibility for the proposed environmental excellence program agreement. If multiple agencies have jurisdiction to administer state environmental laws affected by an environmental excellence agreement, the department of ecology shall designate or act as the coordinating agency.(3) "Director" means the individual or body of individuals in whom the ultimate legal authority of an agency is vested by any provision of law. If the agency head is a body of individuals, a majority of those individuals constitutes the director.(4) "Environmental laws" means chapters 43.21A, 70A.15, 70A.205, 70A.300, 70A.125, 77.55, 90.48, 90.52, 90.58, 90.64, and 90.71 RCW, and RCW 90.54.020(3)(b) and rules adopted under those chapters and section. The term environmental laws as used in this chapter does not include any provision of the Revised Code of Washington, or of any municipal ordinance or enactment, that regulates the selection of a location for a new facility.(5) "Facility" means a site or activity that is regulated under any of the provisions of the environmental laws.(6) "Legal requirement" includes any provision of an environmental law, rule, order, or permit.(7) "Sponsor" means the owner or operator of a facility, including a municipal corporation, subject to regulation under the environmental laws of the state of Washington, or an authorized representative of the owner or operator, that submits a proposal for an environmental excellence program agreement.(8) "Stakeholder" means a person who has a direct interest in the proposed environmental excellence program agreement or who represents a public interest in the proposed environmental excellence program agreement. Stakeholders may include communities near the project, local or state governments, permittees, businesses, environmental and other public interest groups, employees or employee representatives, or other persons.[ 2021 c 65 § 39; 2003 c 39 § 25; 1997 c 381 § 2.]NOTES:Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.020 - Agreements—Environmental results.

RCW 43.21K.020 Agreements—Environmental results.An environmental excellence program agreement entered into under this chapter must achieve more effective or efficient environmental results than the results that would be otherwise achieved. The basis for comparison shall be a reasonable estimate of the overall impact of the participating facility on the environment in the absence of an environmental excellence program agreement. More effective environmental results are results that are better overall than those that would be achieved under the legal requirements superseded or replaced by the agreement. More efficient environmental results are results that are achieved at reduced cost but do not decrease the overall environmental results achieved by the participating facility. An environmental excellence program agreement may not authorize either (1) the release of water pollutants that will cause to be exceeded, at points of compliance in the ambient environment established pursuant to law, numeric surface water or groundwater quality criteria or numeric sediment quality criteria adopted as rules under chapter 90.48 RCW; or (2) the emission of any air contaminants that will cause to be exceeded any air quality standard as defined in RCW 70A.15.1030(3); or (3) a decrease in the overall environmental results achieved by the participating facility compared with results achieved over a representative period before the date on which the agreement is proposed by the sponsor. However, an environmental excellence program agreement may authorize reasonable increases in the release of pollutants to permit increases in facility production or facility expansion and modification.[ 2021 c 65 § 40; 1997 c 381 § 3.]NOTES:Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.040 - Proposals for agreements.

RCW 43.21K.040 Proposals for agreements.(1) A sponsor may propose an environmental excellence program agreement. A trade association or other authorized representative of a sponsor or sponsors may propose a programmatic environmental excellence program agreement for multiple facilities.(2) A sponsor must submit, at a minimum, the following information and other information that may be requested by the director or directors required to sign the agreement:(a) A statement that describes how the proposal is consistent with the purpose of this chapter and the project approval criteria in RCW 43.21K.020;(b)(i) For a site-specific proposal, a comprehensive description of the proposed environmental excellence project that includes the nature of the facility and the operations that will be affected, how the facility or operations will achieve results more effectively or efficiently, and the nature of the results anticipated; or(ii) For a programmatic proposal, a comprehensive description of the proposed environmental excellence project that identifies the facilities and the operations that are expected to participate, how participating facilities or operations will achieve environmental results more effectively or efficiently, the nature of the results anticipated, and the method to identify and document the commitments made by individual participants;(c) An environmental checklist, containing sufficient information to reasonably inform the public of the nature of the proposed environmental excellence program agreement and describing probable significant adverse environmental impacts and environmental benefits expected from implementation of the proposal;(d) A draft environmental excellence program agreement;(e) A description of the stakeholder process as provided in RCW 43.21K.050;(f) A preliminary identification of the permit amendments or modifications that may be necessary to implement the proposed environmental excellence program agreement.[ 1997 c 381 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.050 - Stakeholder participation.

RCW 43.21K.050 Stakeholder participation.(1) Stakeholder participation in and support for an environmental excellence program agreement is vital to the integrity of the environmental excellence program agreement and helps to inform the decision whether an environmental excellence program agreement can be approved.(2) A proposal for an environmental excellence program agreement shall include the sponsor's plan to identify and contact stakeholders, to advise stakeholders of the facts and nature of the project, and to request stakeholder participation and review. Stakeholder participation and review shall occur during the development, consideration, and implementation stages of the proposed environmental excellence program agreement. The plan shall include notice to the employees of the facility to be covered by the proposed environmental excellence program agreement and public notice in the area of the covered facility.(3) The coordinating agency shall extend an invitation to participate in the development of the proposal to a broad and representative sector of the public likely to be affected by the environmental excellence program agreement, including representatives of local community, labor, environmental, and neighborhood advocacy groups. The coordinating agency shall select participants to be included in the stakeholder process that are representative of the diverse sectors of the public that are interested in the agreement. The stakeholder process shall include the opportunity for discussion and comment at multiple stages of the process and access to the information relied upon by the directors in approving the agreement.(4) The coordinating agency will identify any additional provisions for the stakeholder process that the director of the coordinating agency, in the director's sole discretion, considers appropriate to the success of the stakeholder process, and provide for notice to the United States environmental protection agency or other responsible federal agency of each proposed environmental excellence program agreement that may affect legal requirements of any program administered by that agency.[ 1997 c 381 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.080 - Effect of agreements on legal requirements and permits—Permit revisions—Programmatic agreements.

RCW 43.21K.080 Effect of agreements on legal requirements and permits—Permit revisions—Programmatic agreements.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any legal requirement identified under RCW 43.21K.060(1) shall be superseded or replaced in accordance with the terms of the environmental excellence program agreement. Legal requirements contained in a permit that are affected by an environmental excellence program agreement will continue to be enforceable until such time as the permit is revised in accordance with subsection (2) of this section. With respect to any other legal requirements, the legal requirements contained in the environmental excellence program agreement are effective as provided by the environmental excellence program agreement, and the facility or facilities covered by an environmental excellence program agreement shall comply with the terms of the environmental excellence program agreement in lieu of the legal requirements that are superseded and replaced by the approved environmental excellence program agreement.(2) Any permits affected by an environmental excellence program agreement shall be revised to conform to the environmental excellence program agreement by the agency with jurisdiction. The permit revisions will be completed within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of the agreement in accordance with otherwise applicable procedural requirements, including, where applicable, public notice and the opportunity for comment, and the opportunity for review and objection by federal agencies.(3) Other than as superseded or replaced as provided in an approved environmental excellence program agreement, any existing permit requirements remain in effect and are enforceable.(4) A programmatic environmental excellence program agreement shall become applicable to an individual facility when all directors entering into the programmatic agreement approve the owner or operator's commitment to comply with the agreement. A programmatic agreement may not take effect, however, until notice and an opportunity to comment for the individual facility has been provided in accordance with the requirements of RCW 43.21K.070 (1) through (3).[ 1997 c 381 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.100 - Continued effect of agreements and permits—Modification of affected permit or approval.

RCW 43.21K.100 Continued effect of agreements and permits—Modification of affected permit or approval.After a termination under *section 11 of this act is final and no longer subject to judicial review, the sponsor has sixty days in which to apply for any permit or approval affected by any terminated portion of the environmental excellence program agreement. An application filed during the sixty-day period shall be deemed a timely application for renewal of a permit under the terms of any applicable law. Except as provided in *section 11(4) of this act, the terms and conditions of the environmental excellence program agreement and of permits issued will continue in effect until a final permit or approval is issued. If the sponsor fails to submit a timely or complete application, any affected permit or approval may be modified at any time that is consistent with applicable law.[ 1997 c 381 § 12.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: Section 11 of this act was vetoed.
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.110 - Enforceable and voluntary commitments—Enforcement actions.

RCW 43.21K.110 Enforceable and voluntary commitments—Enforcement actions.(1) The legal requirements contained in the environmental excellence program agreement in accordance with RCW 43.21K.060(2) are enforceable commitments of the facility covered by the agreement. Any violation of these legal requirements is subject to penalties and remedies to the same extent as the legal requirements that they superseded or replaced.(2) The voluntary goals stated in the environmental excellence program agreement in accordance with RCW 43.21K.060(3) are voluntary commitments of the facility covered by the agreement. If the facility fails to meet these goals, it shall not be subject to any form of enforcement action, including penalties, orders, or any form of injunctive relief. The failure to make substantial progress in meeting these goals may be a basis on which to terminate the environmental excellence program agreement under *section 11 of this act.(3) Nothing in this chapter limits the authority of an agency, the attorney general, or a prosecuting attorney to initiate an enforcement action for violation of any applicable legal requirement. However, no civil, criminal, or administrative action may be brought with respect to any legal requirement that is superseded or replaced under the terms of an environmental excellence program agreement.(4) This chapter does not create any new authority for citizen suits, and does not alter or amend other statutory provisions authorizing citizen suits.[ 1997 c 381 § 13.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: Section 11 of this act was vetoed.
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.120 - Reduced fee schedule.

RCW 43.21K.120 Reduced fee schedule.An environmental excellence program agreement may contain a reduced fee schedule with respect to a program applicable to the covered facility or facilities.[ 1997 c 381 § 14.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.130 - Rule-making authority.

RCW 43.21K.130 Rule-making authority.Any state, regional, or local agency administering programs under an environmental law may adopt rules or ordinances to implement this chapter. However, it is not necessary that an agency adopt rules or ordinances in order to consider or enter into environmental excellence program agreements.[ 1997 c 381 § 16.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.140 - Advisory committee.

RCW 43.21K.140 Advisory committee.The director of the department of ecology shall appoint an advisory committee to review the effectiveness of the environmental excellence program agreement program and to make a recommendation to the legislature concerning the continuation, termination, or modification of the program. The committee also may make recommendations it considers appropriate for revision of any regulatory program that is affected by an environmental excellence program agreement. The committee shall be composed of one representative each from two state agencies, two representatives of the regulated community, and two representatives of environmental organizations or other public interest groups. The committee must submit a report and its recommendation to the legislature not later than October 31, 2001. The department of ecology shall provide the advisory committee with such support as they may require.[ 1997 c 381 § 17.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.150 - Costs of processing proposals—Fees—Voluntary contributions.

RCW 43.21K.150 Costs of processing proposals—Fees—Voluntary contributions.(1) Agencies authorized to enter into environmental excellence program agreements may assess and collect a fee to recover the costs of processing environmental excellence program agreement proposals. The amount of the fee may not exceed the direct and indirect costs of processing the environmental excellence program agreement proposal. Processing includes, but is not limited to: Working with the sponsor to develop the agreement, meeting with stakeholder groups, conducting public meetings and hearings, preparing a record of the decision to enter into or modify an agreement, and defending any appeal from a decision to enter into or modify an agreement. Fees also may include, to the extent specified by the agreement, the agencies' direct costs of monitoring compliance with those specific terms of an agreement not covered by permits issued to the participating facility.(2) Agencies assessing fees may graduate the initial fees for processing an environmental excellence program agreement proposal to account for the size of the sponsor and to make the environmental excellence program agreement program more available to small businesses. An agency may exercise its discretion to waive all or any part of the fees.(3) Sponsors may voluntarily contribute funds to the administration of an agency's environmental excellence program agreement program.[ 1997 c 381 § 18.]
WA Rev Code § 43.21K.160 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.21K - Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.|43.21K.160 - Termination of authority to enter into agreements.

RCW 43.21K.160 Termination of authority to enter into agreements.The authority of a director to enter into a new environmental excellence program agreement program shall be terminated June 30, 2002. Environmental excellence program agreements entered into before June 30, 2002, shall remain in force and effect subject to the provisions of this chapter.[ 1997 c 381 § 19.]
WA Rev Code § 43.22.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.22 - Department of Labor and Industries.|43.22.005 - Deputy directors.

RCW 43.22.005 Deputy directors.The director of labor and industries may appoint and deputize two assistant directors to be known as deputy directors. The director shall designate one deputy director who, in case a vacancy occurs in the office of director, shall continue in charge of the department until a director is appointed and qualified, or the governor appoints an acting director.[ 1985 c 325 § 1; 1969 ex.s. c 32 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 43.22.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.22 - Department of Labor and Industries.|43.22.010 - Divisions of department—Personnel.

RCW 43.22.010 Divisions of department—Personnel.The department of labor and industries shall be organized into divisions that promote efficient and effective performance of the duties the agency is charged by statute to administer.The director may appoint such clerical and other assistants as may be necessary for the general administration of the department.[ 1994 c 164 § 2; 1974 ex.s. c 27 § 1. Prior: 1973 1st ex.s. c 153 § 8; 1973 1st ex.s. c 52 § 2; 1971 c 66 § 2; 1969 ex.s. c 32 § 1; 1965 c 8 § 43.22.010; prior: (i) 1927 c 306 § 1, part; 1917 c 36 § 2, part; RRS § 8637, part. (ii) 1921 c 7 § 74; RRS § 10832.]NOTES:Effective date—1973 1st ex.s. c 52: "This 1973 amendatory 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 1st ex.s. c 52 § 12.]