§ 80.50.010 Legislative finding — Policy — Intent
§ 80.50.020 Definitions
§ 80.50.030 Energy facility site evaluation council — Created — Membership — Quorum
§ 80.50.040 Energy facility site evaluation council — Powers enumerated
§ 80.50.045 Recommendations to secretary, federal energy regulatory commission — Siting electrical transmission corridors — Council designated as state authority for siting transmission facilities — Review under national env
§ 80.50.060 Energy facilities to which chapter applies — Applications for certification — Forms — Council’s duties — Potential effects to tribal cultural resources
§ 80.50.065 Use of fully coordinated permitting process
§ 80.50.071 Council to receive applications — Payment of costs incurred by the council — Notification requirements
§ 80.50.075 Expedited processing of applications
§ 80.50.080 Counsel for the environment
§ 80.50.085 Council staff to assist applicants, make recommendations
§ 80.50.090 Public hearings — Opportunity for public comment
§ 80.50.100 Recommendations to governor — Expedited processing — Approval or rejection of certification — Reconsideration
§ 80.50.105 Transmission facilities for petroleum products — Recommendations to governor
§ 80.50.110 Chapter governs and supersedes other law or regulations — Preemption of regulation and certification by state
§ 80.50.120 Effect of certification
§ 80.50.130 Revocation or suspension of certification — Grounds
§ 80.50.140 Review
§ 80.50.150 Enforcement of compliance — Penalties
§ 80.50.155 Additional penalties — Appeal procedures
§ 80.50.160 Availability of information
§ 80.50.175 Council’s powers
§ 80.50.180 Proposals and actions by other state agencies and local political subdivisions pertaining to energy facilities exempt from “detailed statement” required by RCW 43.21C.030
§ 80.50.300 Unfinished nuclear power projects — Transfer of all or a portion of a site to a political subdivision or subdivisions of the state — Water rights
§ 80.50.310 Council actions — Exemption from chapter 43.21C RCW
§ 80.50.320 Governor to evaluate council efficiency, make recommendations
§ 80.50.330 Preapplication — Siting electrical transmission facilities — Corridors
§ 80.50.340 Preapplication — Fees — Plans
§ 80.50.360 Duties of chair and director
§ 80.50.370 Clean energy product manufacturing facilities
§ 80.50.380 Preapplication review of a proposed project — Fees
§ 80.50.390 Energy facility site evaluation council account
§ 80.50.400 Transfer of authority from the utilities and transportation commission to the council

Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 80.50 - Energy facilities -- Site locations

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Alternative energy resource: includes energy facilities of the following types: (a) Wind; (b) solar energy; (c) geothermal energy; (d) renewable natural gas; (e) wave or tidal action; (f) biomass energy based on solid organic fuels from wood, forest, or field residues, or dedicated energy crops that do not include wood pieces that have been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol, or copper-chrome-arsenic; or (g) renewable or green electrolytic hydrogen. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Applicant: means any person who makes application for a site certification pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Application: means any request for approval of a particular site or sites filed in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Associated facilities: means storage, transmission, handling, or other related and supporting facilities connecting an energy plant with the existing energy supply, processing, or distribution system, including, but not limited to, communications, controls, mobilizing or maintenance equipment, instrumentation, and other types of ancillary transmission equipment, off-line storage or venting required for efficient operation or safety of the transmission system and overhead, and surface or subsurface lines of physical access for the inspection, maintenance, and safe operations of the transmission facility and new transmission lines constructed to operate at nominal voltages of at least 115,000 volts to connect a thermal power plant or alternative energy facilities to the northwest power grid. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Biofuel: means a liquid or gaseous fuel derived from organic matter including, but not limited to, biodiesel, renewable diesel, ethanol, renewable natural gas, and renewable propane. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Certification: means a binding agreement between an applicant and the state which shall embody compliance to the siting guidelines, in effect as of the date of certification, which have been adopted pursuant to RCW 80. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Clean energy product manufacturing facility: means a facility that exclusively or primarily manufactures the following products or components primarily used by such products:
Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Commission: means the utilities and transportation commission. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Commissioner: means one of the members of such commission. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Construction: means on-site improvements, excluding exploratory work, which cost in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: includes a corporation, company, association or joint stock association. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Council: means the energy facility site evaluation council created by RCW 80. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Counsel for the environment: means an assistant attorney general or a special assistant attorney general who shall represent the public in accordance with RCW 80. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Department: means the department of health. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Director: means the director of the energy facility site evaluation council appointed by the chair of the council in accordance with RCW 80. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Electrical transmission facilities: means electrical power lines and related equipment. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Energy facility: means an energy plant or transmission facilities: PROVIDED, That the following are excluded from the provisions of this chapter:
    • Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Energy plant: means the following facilities together with their associated facilities:
    • Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Facilities: means lines, conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, cross-arms, receivers, transmitters, instruments, machines, appliances, instrumentalities and all devices, real estate, easements, apparatus, property and routes used, operated, owned or controlled by any telecommunications company to facilitate the provision of telecommunications service. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Green electrolytic hydrogen: means hydrogen produced through electrolysis. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Green hydrogen carrier: means a chemical compound, created using electricity or renewable resources as energy input and without use of fossil fuel as a feedstock, from renewable hydrogen or green electrolytic hydrogen for the purposes of transportation, storage, and dispensing of hydrogen. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • information: means knowledge or intelligence represented by any form of writing, signs, signals, pictures, sounds, or any other symbols. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, joint venture, private or public corporation, association, firm, public service company, political subdivision, municipal corporation, government agency, public utility district, or any other entity, public or private, however organized. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Preapplicant: means a person considering applying for a site certificate agreement for any facility. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Preapplication process: means the process which is initiated by written correspondence from the preapplicant to the council, and includes the process adopted by the council for consulting with the preapplicant and with federally recognized tribes, cities, towns, and counties prior to accepting applications for any facility. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Public service company: includes every gas company, electrical company, telecommunications company, wastewater company, and water company. See Washington Code 80.04.010
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Renewable hydrogen: means hydrogen produced using renewable resources both as the source for the hydrogen and the source for the energy input into the production process. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Renewable natural gas: means a gas consisting largely of methane and other hydrocarbons derived from the decomposition of organic material in landfills, wastewater treatment facilities, and anaerobic digesters. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the United States department of energy. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Site: means any proposed or approved location of an energy facility, alternative energy resource, clean energy product manufacturing facility, or electrical transmission facility. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Thermal power plant: means , for the purpose of certification, any electrical generating facility using any fuel for distribution of electricity by electric utilities. See Washington Code 80.50.020
  • Transmission facility: means any of the following together with their associated facilities:
    • Washington Code 80.50.020