RCW 43.31.635
Industrial symbiosis grant program.
(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, a competitive industrial symbiosis grant program is established in order to provide grants for the research, development, and deployment of local waste coordination projects.
(2) Grants may go towards:
(a) Existing industrial symbiosis efforts by public or private sector organizations;
(b) Emerging industrial symbiosis opportunities involving public or private sector organizations, including projects arising from:
(i) The industrial waste coordination program established in RCW 43.31.625;
(ii) Conceptual work completed by public utilities to redirect their wastes to productive use; or
(iii) Existing inventories or project concepts involving specific biobased wastes converted to renewable natural gas;
(c) Research on product development using a specific waste flow;
(d) Feasibility studies to evaluate potential biobased resources;
(e) Feasibility studies for publicly owned utilities to evaluate business models to transform to multiutility operations or for the evaluation of potential symbiosis connections with other regional businesses; or
(f) Other local waste coordination projects as determined by the department of commerce.
(3) The department of commerce must develop a method and criteria for the allocation of grants, subject to the following:
(a) Project allocation should reflect geographic diversity, with grants being distributed equally in western and eastern parts of the state, urban and rural areas, and small towns and large cities;
(b) Project allocation should consider factors such as time to implementation and scale of economic or environmental benefits;
(c) Grants must require a one-to-one nonstate to state match;
(d) Individual grant awards may not exceed $500,000; and
(e) Project allocation should avoid creating or worsening environmental health disparities and should make use of tools such as the department of health's environmental health disparities map.
[ 2021 c 308 § 3.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2021 c 308: See note following RCW 43.31.625.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.31 - Department of Commerce.
43.31.0925 - Business assistance center—Minority and women business development office.
43.31.205 - Hanford reservation—Promotion of sublease for nuclear-related industry.
43.31.215 - Hanford reservation—Tri-Cities area—Emphasize workforce and facilities.
43.31.422 - Hanford area economic investment fund.
43.31.425 - Hanford area economic investment fund advisory committee.
43.31.428 - Hanford area economic investment fund committee—Powers.
43.31.450 - SEED act—Findings—Purpose.
43.31.455 - SEED act—Definitions.
43.31.460 - SEED act—Individual development account program—Rules.
43.31.465 - SEED act—Foster youth individual development account program.
43.31.470 - SEED act—Individual development account program account.
43.31.475 - SEED act—Additional funds and purposes.
43.31.480 - SEED act—Report to the legislature.
43.31.485 - SEED act—Short title—2005 c 402.
43.31.502 - Child care facility revolving fund—Purpose—Source of funds.
43.31.504 - Child care facility fund committee—Generally.
43.31.506 - Child care facility fund committee—Authority to award moneys from fund.
43.31.508 - Child care facility fund committee—Loans to child care facilities.
43.31.514 - Child care facility fund committee—Grants, repayment requirements.
43.31.545 - Recycled materials and products—Market development.
43.31.565 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Definitions.
43.31.575 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Eligible organizations—Requirements.
43.31.577 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Eligible activities.
43.31.583 - Early learning facilities grant and loan program—Report.
43.31.615 - Landlord mitigation program account.
43.31.625 - Industrial waste coordination program.
43.31.635 - Industrial symbiosis grant program.
43.31.859 - Rural development council—Successor organization—Funding.