RCW 54.28.010
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As used in this chapter:
(1)"Operating property" means all of the property utilized by a public utility district in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale;
(2)"Taxing districts" means counties, cities, towns, school districts, and road districts;
(3)"Distributes to consumers" means the sale of electric energy to ultimate consumers thereof, and does not include sales of electric energy for resale by the purchaser;
(4)"Wholesale value" means all costs of a public utility district associated with the generation and transmission of energy from its own generation and transmission system to the point or points of inter-connection with a distribution system owned and used by a district to distribute such energy to consumers, or in the event a distribution system owned by a district is not used to distribute such energy, then the term means the gross revenues derived by a district from the sale of such energy to consumers;
(5)"Thermal electric generating facility" means a steam-powered electrical energy producing facility utilizing nuclear or fossil fuels;
(6)"Placed in operation" means delivery of energy into a transmission or distribution system for use or sale in such a manner as to establish a value accruing to the power plant operator, except operation incidental to testing or start-up adjustments;
(7)"Impacted area" for a thermal electric generating facility on a federal reservation means that area in the state lying within thirty-five statute miles of the most commonly used entrance of the federal reservation and which is south of the southern boundary of township fifteen north.
[ 1977 ex.s. c 366 s 1 ; 1967 ex.s. c 26 s 22 ; 1959 c 274 s 1 ; 1957 c 278 s 7 . Prior:
(i)1941 c 245 s 1, part; Rem. Supp. 1941 s 11616-1, part.
(ii)1949 c 227 s 1(f); Rem. Supp. 1949 s 11616-2(f).]
Notes:
Effective date — 1967 ex.s. c 26: See note following RCW 82.01.050 .