RCW 43.21A.150
Director to consult with other states, federal government, and Canadian provinces—Authority to receive and disburse grants, funds, and gifts—Department's website list of interagency agreements.
(1) The director, whenever it is lawful and feasible to do so, shall consult and cooperate with the federal government, as well as with other states and Canadian provinces, in the study and control of environmental problems. On behalf of the department, the director is authorized to accept, receive, disburse, and administer grants or other funds or gifts from any source, including private individuals or agencies, the federal government, and other public agencies, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
(2)(a) Beginning December 31, 2017, the director must list on the department's website information regarding the current interagency agreements to which the department is a party or in which the department is a participant.
(b) The list must identify each agreement, the type of agreement, parties to the agreement, the effective date of the agreement, and a brief description of the agreement. The list must include all interagency agreements involving the department and other state agencies, local governments, special purpose districts, the federal government and federal government agencies, and the agencies of other states.
(c) For the initial list, the department must by December 31, 2017, list all grant agreements and federal agreements where information is readily extractable from the department's data systems. For those data systems that, because of their age, require programming support to extract and format data for publishing to the internet, the department must complete listing the required information according to the following schedule:
(i) By June 30, 2018, all contract, loan, and grant agreements;
(ii) By December 31, 2018, all agreements pertaining to funds receivable for work performed by the department, leases, and nonfinancial interagency agreements.
(d) Beginning December 1, 2018, the department must annually update the website to include new interagency agreements that the department has entered into and must identify the agreements that have been updated within the past year.
(e) For the purposes of this section, the term "interagency agreement" includes but is not limited to memoranda of understanding, grant contracts, and advisory or nonbinding agreements.
(f) For purposes of this section, the information posted on the department's website is considered to function as a report to the legislature because the report acts as a mechanism of keeping the legislature apprised of the department's interagency agreements.
[ 2017 c 47 § 2; 1970 ex.s. c 62 § 15.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2017 c 47: "The legislature finds that department of ecology pursues its mission of environmental protection within a complicated framework of national, state, and local authorities and responsibilities, and that the department of ecology's roles within this framework are not always readily intelligible to the public. Furthermore, the legislature finds that promoting the transparency of department of ecology activities will bolster the understanding and trust in the agency held by legislators and the Washingtonians they represent. Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to require the department of ecology to maintain a list of the department's participation in interagency agreements on its website for the purposes of improving public understanding of the extent and implications of those agreements." [ 2017 c 47 § 1.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.21A - Department of Ecology.
43.21A.005 - Intent—Public involvement and outreach.
43.21A.040 - Department of ecology—Created.
43.21A.061 - Powers and duties—Reclamation.
43.21A.064 - Powers and duties—Water resources.
43.21A.067 - Water resources—"Basic data fund" created.
43.21A.068 - Federal power act licensees—Exemption from state requirements.
43.21A.069 - Powers and duties—Flood control.
43.21A.070 - Application of administrative procedure act to the review of decisions by director.
43.21A.080 - Rule-making authority.
43.21A.081 - Five-year formal review process of existing rules.
43.21A.087 - Technical assistance officer and units—Authority to issue orders or assess penalties.
43.21A.120 - Director to employ personnel—Application of state civil service law.
43.21A.130 - Studies—Limitations.
43.21A.140 - Director to consult with department, state board of health.
43.21A.155 - Environmental excellence program agreements—Effect on chapter.
43.21A.160 - Request for certification of records as confidential—Procedure.
43.21A.165 - Environmental technology—Review of certification programs—Demonstration activities.
43.21A.175 - Environmental certification programs—Fees—Rules—Liability.
43.21A.235 - Exemption from laboratory certification and fee requirements.
43.21A.350 - Master plan of development.
43.21A.355 - Master plan of development—Public hearings.
43.21A.405 - Marine pollution—Baseline study program—Legislative finding and declaration.
43.21A.415 - Marine pollution—Baseline study program—Scope of database produced.
43.21A.420 - Marine pollution—Baseline study program—Priority factors.
43.21A.470 - Yakima enhancement project—Duties—Request for congressional authorization for pipeline.
43.21A.510 - State environmental profile.
43.21A.520 - Environmental excellence awards program for products.
43.21A.600 - Powers and duties—Electric power resources.
43.21A.605 - Development of electric power resources—Cooperation with governmental units.
43.21A.610 - Steam electric generating plant—Study—Construction.
43.21A.616 - Steam electric generating plant—Eminent domain.
43.21A.620 - Steam electric generating plant—Revenue bonds and warrants.
43.21A.622 - Steam electric generating plant—Special funds—Payment of bonds, interest.
43.21A.624 - Steam electric generating plant—Considerations in issuance of bonds, limitations.
43.21A.628 - Steam electric generating plant—Sale of bonds.
43.21A.632 - Steam electric generating plant—Rates or charges.
43.21A.634 - Steam electric generating plant—Refunding revenue bonds.
43.21A.636 - Steam electric generating plant—Signatures on bonds.
43.21A.640 - Steam electric generating plant—Bonds are legal security, investment, negotiable.
43.21A.650 - Freshwater aquatic weeds account.
43.21A.660 - Freshwater aquatic weeds management program.
43.21A.662 - Freshwater aquatic weeds management program—Advisory committee.
43.21A.667 - Aquatic algae control account—Freshwater and saltwater aquatic algae control program.
43.21A.680 - Solid waste plan advisory committee abolished.
43.21A.681 - Geoduck aquaculture operations—Guidelines—Rules.
43.21A.690 - Cost-reimbursement agreements.
43.21A.700 - Transfer of ownership of department-owned vessel—Review of vessel's physical condition.
43.21A.702 - Transfer of ownership of department-owned vessel—Further requirements.
43.21A.730 - Office of Chehalis basin.
43.21A.732 - Chehalis basin strategy.
43.21A.733 - Chehalis basin account.
43.21A.734 - Chehalis basin taxable account.
43.21A.735 - Cannabis science task force.
43.21A.736 - Cannabis product testing—Fees—Rules.
43.21A.740 - Environmental justice obligations of the department of ecology.
43.21A.900 - Chapter to be liberally construed.
43.21A.910 - Savings—Permits, standards not affected—Severability—Effective date—1970 ex.s. c 62.