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Current Rule Making

Rules listed on this page indicate Ecology's intentions for rule making. At a minimum, a CR-101 form has been filed with the Office of the Code Reviser. They are all at various stages of the rule-making process. The links below will take you to the rule-making activity page where the current status of the each rule making can be found. Some of these rules may also be on the January 2011 Semiannual Rule Agenda. If you don't see a rule you are looking for please look on the Rule-Making Archive page or the Rule-Making Suspension Update page.

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Administration | Air Quality | Environmental Assessment | Grants | Hazardous Waste | Office of Columbia River | Spill Prevention, Preparedness and Response | State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) | Shorelands and Wetlands | Toxics Cleanup and Sediments | Waste 2 Resources | Water Quality | Water Resources

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Administration

• Nothing to report at this time.

Air Quality

• Chapter 173–423 WAC - Low Emission Vehicles
• Chapter 173-455 WAC - Air Quality Fee Regulation
• Chapter 173-400 WAC - General regulation for air pollution sources

Environmental Assessment

• Nothing to report at this time.

Grants

• Nothing to report at this time.

Hazardous Waste

• Chapter 173-901 WAC, Better Brakes (new rule)

Office of Columbia River

• Chapter 508-14 WAC, Columbia Basin Project — Ground Waters 

Spill Prevention, Preparedness and Response

• Chapter 173-182 WAC - Oil spill contingency planning

• Chapter 173-183 WAC - Pre-assessment screening and oil spill compensation schedule regulations

State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)

• Nothing to report at this time.

Shorelands and Wetlands

• Chapter 173–26 WAC - State master program approval\amendment procedures and master program guidelines  

Toxics Cleanup and Sediments

• Chapter 173-204 WAC - Sediment management standards
• Chapter 173–360 WAC - Underground storage tank regulations

Toxic Hazards

• Chapter 173-901 WAC, Better Brakes (new rule)

Waste 2 Resources

• Chapter 173-910 WAC, Mercury-Containing Lights Product Stewardship Program
• Chapter 173-350 WAC - Solid Waste Handling Standards
• Chapter 173–351 WAC - Criteria for municipal solid waste landfills

Water Quality

• Chapter 173-95A WAC - Uses and Limitations of Centennial Clean Water Funds 

• Chapter 173–98 WAC - Uses and Limitations of the Water Pollution Control State Revolving Fund  

• Chapter 173-201a WAC - Water Quality Standards for Surface Waters of the State of Washington

• Chapter 173–219 WAC - Reclaimed water use

• Chapter 173-224 WAC - Wastewater Discharge Permit Fees

Water Resources

• (New rule) Certified water rights examiners
• Chapter 173-175 WAC - Dam Safety
• (New rule) Chapter 173–503a WAC — Samish River Sub-basin instream resources protection program – Lower and Upper Skagit Water Resources Inventory Area, WRIAs 3 and 4
• (New rule) Chapter 173-518 WAC - Water Resources Management program for the Dungeness portion of the Elwha-Dungeness - Water Resources Inventory Area  (WRIA 18) - New Rule 

• (New rule) Chapter 173-525 WAC - Grays-Elochoman instream resources protection and water management program - WRIA 25

• (New rule) Chapter 173-526 WAC - Cowlitz instream resources protection and water management program - WRIA 26