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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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