RCW 43.31.635
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(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 s 3 .]
Notes:
Findings — Intent — 2021 c 308: See note following RCW 43.31.625 .