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equire commerce to provide a cost-benefit analysis. Not<br />
applicable.<br />
October 24, 2012<br />
Nick Demerice<br />
Director of<br />
Government Affairs<br />
Chapter 194-26 WAC<br />
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE<br />
STANDARD<br />
NEW SECTION<br />
WAC 194-26-010 Authority. This chapter is promulgated<br />
pursuant to the authority granted in RCW 80.80.040,<br />
requiring the department of commerce to adopt the average<br />
available greenhouse gases emissions output as determined<br />
under RCW 80.80.050 as the greenhouse gas emissions performance<br />
standard for all baseload electric generation for<br />
which electric utilities enter into long-term financial commitments.<br />
NEW SECTION<br />
WAC 194-26-020 Average available greenhouse gas<br />
emissions output. The energy policy division of the department<br />
of commerce has surveyed new combined-cycle natural<br />
gas thermal electric generation turbines commercially available<br />
and offered for sale by manufacturers and purchased in<br />
the United States, and finds the average rate of emissions of<br />
greenhouse gases for these turbines to be nine hundred and<br />
eighty pounds per megawatt-hour.<br />
WSR 12-21-140<br />
PROPOSED RULES<br />
UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION<br />
COMMISSION<br />
[Docket PG-120345—Filed October 24, 2012, 11:15 a.m.]<br />
Original Notice.<br />
Preproposal statement of inquiry was filed as WSR 12-<br />
07-086.<br />
Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: Chapter<br />
480-93 WAC, Gas companies—Safety.<br />
Hearing Location(s): Commission's Hearing Room 206,<br />
Second Floor, Richard Hemstad Building, 1300 South Evergreen<br />
Park Drive S.W., Olympia, WA 98504-7250, on<br />
December 19, 2012, at 9:30 a.m.<br />
Date of Intended Adoption: December 19, 2012.<br />
Submit Written Comments to: Washington Utilities and<br />
Transportation Commission, P.O. Box 47250, Olympia, WA<br />
98504-7250, e-mail records@utc.wa.gov, fax (360) 586-<br />
1150, by November 26, 2012. Please include Docket PG-<br />
120345 in your communication.<br />
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: Contact Debbie<br />
Aguilar by December 5, 2012, TTY (360) 586-8203 or<br />
(360) 664-1132.<br />
Washington State Register, Issue 12-21 WSR 12-21-140<br />
Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects,<br />
Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: The 2011 legislature<br />
amended the underground utilities law, chapter 19.122<br />
RCW. These changes take effect on January 1, 2013. This<br />
new law, assigned to the Washington utilities and transportation<br />
commission (commission), affects the commission's<br />
authority to enforce the underground utilities law as it relates<br />
to pipelines. The commission initiated this rule making to<br />
require gas pipeline companies to report additional information<br />
about damage to their facilities caused by excavators that<br />
have violated the underground utilities law, and to provide to<br />
violators information about their rights under the revised law.<br />
Reasons Supporting Proposal: <strong>Proposed</strong> revisions will<br />
provide sufficient supplemental reporting and evidentiary<br />
records and documentation needed by the commission to sustain<br />
an action to enforce violations of chapter 19.122 RCW.<br />
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 80.01.040(4),<br />
81.01.010, 81.04.160, 81.88.040, 81.88.065, and sections 1,<br />
2, and 5, chapter 142, Laws of 2007.<br />
Statute Being Implemented: Chapter 19.122 RCW.<br />
Rule is not necessitated by federal law, federal or state<br />
court decision.<br />
Name of Proponent: Washington utilities and transportation<br />
commission, governmental.<br />
Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting:<br />
David D. Lykken, 1300 South Evergreen Park Drive S.W.,<br />
Olympia, WA 98504, (360) 664-1219; Implementation and<br />
Enforcement: David W. Danner, 1300 South Evergreen Park<br />
Drive S.W., Olympia, WA 98504, (360) 664-1208.<br />
No small business economic impact statement has been<br />
prepared under chapter 19.85 RCW. The proposed rules will<br />
not result in or impose more than minor costs. Because there<br />
will not be more than minor increase in costs resulting from<br />
the proposed rule changes, a small business economic impact<br />
statement is not required under RCW 19.85.030(1).<br />
A cost-benefit analysis is not required under RCW<br />
34.05.328. The commission is not an agency to which RCW<br />
34.05.328 applies. The proposed rules are not significant legislative<br />
rules of the sort referenced in RCW 34.05.328(5).<br />
October 24, 2012<br />
David W. Danner<br />
Executive Director<br />
and Secretary<br />
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending Docket PG-<br />
070975, General Order R-549, filed 5/30/08, effective<br />
6/30/08)<br />
WAC 480-93-200 Reporting requirements. (1) Each<br />
gas pipeline company must give notice to the commission by<br />
telephone using the emergency notification line (see WAC<br />
480-93-005(8)) within two hours of discovering an incident<br />
or hazardous condition arising out of its operations that<br />
results in:<br />
(a) A fatality or personal injury requiring hospitalization;<br />
(b) Property damage valued at more than fifty thousand<br />
dollars;<br />
(c) The evacuation of a building, or a high occupancy<br />
structure or area;<br />
(d) The unintentional ignition of gas;<br />
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