Title 70A — Title 70A ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
87 chapters · 1,249 sections in this title.
RCW 70A.214.010 Legislative findings.
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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 im…
RCW 70A.214.020 Definitions.
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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.(2) "Director" means the director of the department of ecology or the director's designee.(3) "Dangerous waste" …
RCW 70A.214.030 Office of waste reduction—Duties.
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(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 sub…
RCW 70A.214.040 Waste reduction and hazardous substance use reduction consultation program.
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(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 o…
RCW 70A.214.050 Waste reduction techniques—Workshops and seminars.
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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 ha…
RCW 70A.214.060 Waste reduction hotline—Database system.
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(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 …
RCW 70A.214.070 Waste reduction research and development program—Contracts.
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(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 techn…
RCW 70A.214.080 Director's authority.
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(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 ch…
RCW 70A.214.090 Waste reduction and recycling program to promote activities by state agencies—Recycled paper goal.
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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 dispos…
RCW 70A.214.100 Waste reduction and recycling awards program in K-12 public schools—Encouraging waste reduction and recycling in private schools.
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(1) 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 public schools, and to encourage waste reduction and recycling in private schools, grades kindergarten thr…
RCW 70A.214.110 Hazardous waste generators and users—Voluntary reduction plan.
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(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, except for those facilities that are primarily permitted treatment, storage, and disposal facilities or recycling facili…
RCW 70A.214.120 Voluntary reduction plan—Exemption.
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A person required to prepare a plan under RCW 70A.214.110 because of the quantity of hazardous waste generated may petition the director to be excused from this requirement. The person must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the director that the quantity of hazardous waste gener…
RCW 70A.214.130 Voluntary reduction plan, executive summary, or progress report—Department review.
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(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 is adequate pursuant to the rules developed under this section and with the provisions of RCW 70A.214.110. In determin…
RCW 70A.214.140 Appeal of department order or surcharge.
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A user or generator may appeal from a department order or a surcharge under RCW 70A.214.130 to the pollution control hearings board pursuant to chapter 43.21B RCW.[ 2020 c 20 s 1219; 1990 c 114 s 9. Formerly RCW 70.95C.230.]
RCW 70A.214.150 Public inspection of plans, summaries, progress reports.
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(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 hazardous waste generator required to prepare an executive summary or annual progress report who believes tha…
RCW 70A.214.160 Multimedia permit pilot program—Air, water, hazardous waste management.
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(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 be the focus of a pilot multimedia program. The program shall be designed to coordinate department actions related to environmental…