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BILL · 2023–24 SESSION

HB 1166: Water quality trading prog.

Improving climate resiliency through the development of a water quality trading program for recipients of national pollutant discharge elimination system general permits.

Summary

  • Requires the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to offer a water quality trading program to certain National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permittees who are not in compliance with the terms of their permit.
  • Requires Ecology, as part of any such water quality trading program, to offer incentives whenever feasible to do so for any improvements made on behalf of the permittee that take place in the built environment or that otherwise address the urban heat island effect on waters of the state.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 9, 2023
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed House
  4. Passed Senate
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Mary Dye (R-9)
Introduced
January 9, 2023 in the House
Last action
January 8, 2024
Budget
Has a fiscal note

AN ACT Relating to improving climate resiliency through the development of a water quality trading program for recipients of national pollutant discharge elimination system general permits;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Mary Dye (R-9)

1 co-sponsor (0 Democrats, 1 Republican)

Jim Walsh R-19

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. First reading, referred to Environment & Energy.
  3. Prefiled for introduction.

HB 1166 in other sessions

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