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• 70.95.010  Legislative finding -- Priorities -- Goals.
• 70.95.020  Purpose.
• 70.95.030  Definitions.
• 70.95.040  Solid waste advisory committee -- Members -- Meetings -- Travel expenses -- "Governor's award of excellence."
• 70.95.050  Solid waste advisory committee -- Staff services and facilities.
• 70.95.055  Environmental excellence program agreements -- Effect on chapter.
• 70.95.060  Standards for solid waste handling -- Areas -- Landfill location.
• 70.95.065  Inert waste landfills.
• 70.95.070  Review of standards prior to adoption -- Revisions, additions and modifications -- Factors.
• 70.95.075  Implementation of standards -- Assessment -- Analyses -- Proposals.
• 70.95.080  County comprehensive solid waste management plan -- Joint plans -- Duties of cities.
• 70.95.090  County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans -- Contents.
• 70.95.092  County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans -- Levels of service, reduction and recycling.
• 70.95.094  County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans -- Review and approval process.
• 70.95.096  Utilities and transportation commission to review local plan's assessment of cost impacts on rates.
• 70.95.100  Technical assistance for plan preparation -- Guidelines -- Informational materials and programs.
• 70.95.110  Maintenance of plans -- Review, revisions -- Implementation of source separation programs.
• 70.95.130  Financial aid to counties and cities.
• 70.95.140  Matching requirements.
• 70.95.150  Contracts with counties to assure proper expenditures.
• 70.95.160  Local board of health regulations to implement the comprehensive plan -- Section not to be construed to authorize counties to operate system.
• 70.95.163  Local health departments may contract with the department of ecology.
• 70.95.165  Solid waste disposal facility siting -- Site review -- Local solid waste advisory committees -- Membership.
• 70.95.167  Private businesses involvement in source separated materials -- Local solid waste advisory committee to examine.
• 70.95.170  Permit for solid waste handling facility -- Required.
• 70.95.180  Permit for solid waste handling facility -- Applications, fee.
• 70.95.185  Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities -- Review by department -- Appeal of issuance -- Validity of permits issued after June 7, 1984.
• 70.95.190  Permit for solid waste handling facility -- Renewal -- Appeal -- Validity of renewal -- Review fees.
• 70.95.200  Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities -- Suspension.
• 70.95.205  Exemption from solid waste permit requirements -- Waste-derived soil amendments -- Application -- Revocation of exemption -- Appeal.
• 70.95.210  Hearing -- Appeal -- Denial, suspension -- When effective.
• 70.95.212  Solid waste collection companies -- Notice of changes in tipping fees and disposal rate schedules.
• 70.95.215  Landfill disposal facilities -- Reserve accounts required by July 1, 1987 -- Exception -- Rules.
• 70.95.217  Waste generated outside the state -- Findings.
• 70.95.218  Waste generated outside the state -- Solid waste disposal site facility reporting requirements -- Fees.
• 70.95.220  Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments -- Applications -- Allocations.
• 70.95.230  Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments -- Matching funds requirements.
• 70.95.235  Diversion of recyclable material -- Penalty.
• 70.95.240  Unlawful to dump or deposit solid waste without permit -- Penalties -- Litter cleanup restitution payment.
• 70.95.250  Name appearing on waste material -- Presumption.
• 70.95.255  Disposal of sewage sludge or septic tank sludge prohibited -- Exemptions -- Uses of sludge material permitted.
• 70.95.260  Duties of department -- State solid waste management plan -- Assistance -- Coordination -- Tire recycling.
• 70.95.263  Additional powers and duties of department.
• 70.95.265  Department to cooperate with public and private departments, agencies and associations.
• 70.95.267  Department authorized to disburse referendum 26 (chapter 43.83A RCW) fund for local government solid waste projects.
• 70.95.268  Department authorized to disburse funds under chapter 43.99F RCW for local government solid waste projects.
• 70.95.270  Hazardous substance remedial actions -- Procedural requirements not applicable.
• 70.95.280  Determination of best solid waste management practices -- Department to develop method to monitor waste stream -- Collectors to report quantity and quality of waste -- Confidentiality of proprietary information.
• 70.95.285  Solid waste stream analysis.
• 70.95.290  Solid waste stream evaluation.
• 70.95.295  Analysis and evaluation to be incorporated in state solid waste management plan.
• 70.95.300  Solid waste -- Beneficial uses -- Permitting requirement exemptions.
• 70.95.305  Solid waste handling permit -- Exemption from requirements -- Application of section -- Rules.
• 70.95.306  Composting of bovine and equine carcasses -- Guidelines -- Exemption from solid waste handling rules.
• 70.95.310  Rules -- Department "deferring" to other permits -- Application of section.
• 70.95.315  Penalty.
• 70.95.320  Construction.
• 70.95.400  Transporters -- Definition -- Registration required -- Penalties.
• 70.95.410  Transporters -- Delivery of recyclable materials to transfer station or landfill prohibited -- Records -- Penalty.
• 70.95.420  Damages.
• 70.95.430  Solid waste recyclers -- Notice -- Report -- Penalty.
• 70.95.440  Financial assurance requirements.
• 70.95.500  Disposal of vehicle tires outside designated area prohibited -- Penalty -- Exemption.
• 70.95.510  Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires.
• 70.95.515  Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires -- Failure to collect, pay to department -- Penalties.
• 70.95.521  Waste tire removal account.
• 70.95.530  Waste tire removal account -- Use.
• 70.95.535  Disposition of fee.
• 70.95.540  Cooperation with department to aid tire recycling.
• 70.95.545  Tire recycling -- Report.
• 70.95.550  Waste tires -- Definitions.
• 70.95.555  Waste tires -- License for transport or storage business -- Requirements.
• 70.95.560  Waste tires -- Violation of RCW 70.95.555 -- Penalty.
• 70.95.565  Waste tires -- Contracts with unlicensed persons prohibited.
• 70.95.570  Limitations on liability.
• 70.95.600  Educational material promoting household waste reduction and recycling.
• 70.95.610  Battery disposal -- Restrictions -- Violators subject to fine -- "Vehicle battery" defined.
• 70.95.620  Identification procedure for persons accepting used vehicle batteries.
• 70.95.630  Requirements for accepting used batteries by retailers of vehicle batteries -- Notice.
• 70.95.640  Retail core charge.
• 70.95.650  Vehicle battery wholesalers -- Obligations regarding used batteries -- Noncompliance procedure.
• 70.95.660  Department to distribute printed notice -- Issuance of warnings and citations -- Fines.
• 70.95.670  Rules.
• 70.95.700  Solid waste incineration or energy recovery facility -- Environmental impact statement requirements.
• 70.95.710  Incineration of medical waste.
• 70.95.715  Sharps waste -- Drop-off sites -- Pharmacy return program.
• 70.95.720  Closure of energy recovery and incineration facilities -- Recordkeeping requirements.
• 70.95.810  Composting food and yard wastes -- Grants and study.
• 70.95.900  Authority and responsibility of utilities and transportation commission not changed.
• 70.95.901  Severability -- 1989 c 431.
• 70.95.902  Section captions not law -- 1989 c 431.
• 70.95.903  Application of chapter -- Collection and transportation of recyclable materials by recycling companies or nonprofit entities -- Reuse or reclamation.
• 70.95.910  Severability -- 1969 ex.s. c 134.
• 70.95.911  Severability -- 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 41.

Notes:

Airports: RCW 70.93.095. Commercial fertilizer: Chapter 15.54 RCW. Environmental certification programs -- Fees -- Rules -- Liability: RCW 43.21A.175. Marinas: RCW 70.93.095. Solid waste collection tax: Chapter 82.18 RCW. State parks: RCW 79A.05.045. Waste reduction, recycling, litter control: Chapter 70.93 RCW.