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WA HB1290
Bill
Status
1/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Mary Dye
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AI Summary
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Department of Ecology must offer watershed-based water quality trading programs to NPDES general permit holders who discharge to waterbodies with temperature total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) and are out of permit compliance
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Trading programs may be community-based or market-based to help permittees achieve compliance with permit terms
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Department must offer incentives when feasible for improvements in the built environment or those addressing urban heat island effects on state waters
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Amends RCW 90.48.260, which governs Washington's water pollution control authority under the federal Clean Water Act
Legislative Description
Improving climate resiliency through the development of a water quality trading program for recipients of national pollutant discharge elimination system general permits.
Last Action
By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
1/12/2026