WA Rev Code § 43.83.350 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 43 - State Government—Executive|Chapter 43.83 - Capital Improvements.|43.83.350 - State and local improvements revolving account, Waste Disposal Facilities, 1980—Definitions.

RCW 43.83.350 State and local improvements revolving account, Waste Disposal Facilities, 1980—Definitions.(1) The state and local improvements revolving account, Waste Disposal Facilities, 1980 is hereby created in the state treasury and shall be used exclusively for the purpose of providing funds to public bodies for the planning, design, acquisition, construction, and improvement of public waste disposal and management facilities, or for purposes of assisting a public body to obtain an ownership interest in waste disposal and management facilities and/or to defray a part of the payments made by a public body to a service provider under a service agreement entered into pursuant to RCW 70A.140.060, in this state.(2) "Waste disposal and management facilities" means any facilities or systems for the control, collection, storage, treatment, disposal, recycling, or recovery of nonradioactive liquid wastes or nonradioactive solid wastes, or a combination thereof, including, but not limited to, sanitary sewage, stormwater, residential, industrial, commercial, and agricultural wastes, and concentrations of organic sediments waste, inorganic nutrients, and toxic materials which are causing environmental degradation and loss of the beneficial use of the environment, and material segregated into recyclables and nonrecyclables. Waste disposal and management facilities may include all equipment, utilities, structures, real property, and interest in and improvements on real property necessary for or incidental to such purpose. As used in this chapter, the phrase "waste disposal and management facilities" shall not include the acquisition of equipment used to collect residential or commercial garbage.(3) "Public body" means the state of Washington or any agency, political subdivision, taxing district, or municipal corporation thereof, an agency of the federal government, and those Indian tribes now or hereafter recognized as such by the federal government.(4) "Control" means those measures necessary to maintain and/or restore the beneficial uses of polluted land and water resources including, but not limited to, the diversion, sedimentation, flocculation, dredge and disposal, or containment or treatment of nutrients, organic waste, and toxic material to restore the beneficial use of the state's land and water resources and prevent the continued pollution of these resources.(5) "Planning" means the development of comprehensive plans for the purpose of identifying statewide or regional needs for specific waste disposal facilities as well as the development of plans specific to a particular project.[ 2021 c 65 § 46; 2015 1st sp.s. c 4 § 40; 1991 sp.s. c 13 § 44; 1985 c 57 § 56; 1980 c 159 § 3. Formerly RCW 43.99F.030.]NOTES:Explanatory statement—2021 c 65: See note following RCW 53.54.030.Effective dates—Severability—1991 sp.s. c 13: See notes following RCW 18.08.240.Effective date—1985 c 57: See note following RCW 18.04.105.