State of Washington Joint Legislative Task Force on Energy Facility Siting

About the Joint Task Force

The Joint Legislative Task Force on Energy Facility Siting was authorized by a budget proviso to the Department of Community, Trade & Economic Development. The Office of Community Development will assist the Task Force along with Legislative Staff.

The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council has offered to host this web page in order to facilitate communication with task force members and the public.

According to the budget proviso, the Task Force is to review and make recommendations to the legislature regarding the following issues:

• Jurisdiction and membership of the state siting authority;
• Its procedures;
• The scope of preemption of proprietary and regulatory function of local governments and state agencies;
• Local government participation;
• The standards and process for determining the need for proposed projects;
• The role of a counsel for the environment;
• Funding and related costs of participating the state siting process;
• Monitoring and oversight of certified facilities;
• The siting of energy facilities on public lands;

Members of the Task Force are:

• Senator Lisa Brown
• Senator Karen Fraser
• Senator Dino Rossi
• Senator Dan Swecker
• Representative Jeff Morris
• Representative Erik Poulsen
• Representative Renee Radcliff
• Representative Brian Thomas

Legislative staff are:

• Richard Rodger - Senate Environmental Quality and Water Resources Committee
• William Bridges - Senate Energy, Technology & Telecommunication Committee
• Kari Guy - Senate Ways & Means Committee
• Scott MacColl - House Technology, Telecommunications & Energy Committee
• Carole Richmond -  House Agriculture & Ecology Committee

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Meeting schedule (updated November 16, 2000)

All meetings are open to the public. 

Final Task Force Meeting: To be Announced

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Task Force Work Groups

The Task Force originally created three work groups which have since coalesced into one work group.

The Work Group is scheduled to meet at the following dates/locations:

All Work Group meetings are open to the public.

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Meeting Notes and Other Documents

• Work Group Meeting Notes of September 12 &13, 2000, meetings: HTML, PDF

• Draft Status Report of Work Group Given to the Joint Legislative Task Force on Energy Facility Siting at the October 17, 2000 meeting:

  • Adobe acrobat version

  • HTML version

• Draft 11/20/00 Report by the Work Group of the Joint Legislative Task Force on Energy Facility Siting

  • Adobe acrobat version

  • HTML version

  Note to work group participants: The facilitator and legislative staff have prepared this draft following the Task Force's meeting on November 13. If you have comments, please submit them in writing to William Bridges and Jim Arthur by November 27. (bridges_wi@leg.wa.gov; jima@cted.wa.gov) Please organize your comments to follow the table of contents in the report, which is based on the budget proviso. Your comments will be included verbatim in the appendix. If you have any questions, please call Jim Arthur at (360) 725-2809 or William Bridges at (360) 786-7424.

• 12/15/00 Report by the Work Group of the Joint Legislative Task Force on Energy Facility Siting

  • Final report (Adobe Acrobat Version) - 22 pages

  • Appendices A to F - (Adobe Acrobat Version) - 52 pages - Revised on December 19, 2000 (Revision Posted 1/19/01) to reflect following changes in Appendix B (Page 2): Collin Sprague and Dave Warren added as workgroup participants, Terry Oxley's name spelled correctly.

  • Appendix G - EFSEC Process Flow Chart - (Adobe Acrobat version) - 1 page

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Additional Information

For additional information about the Joint Legislative Task force on Energy Facility Siting please contact:

Richard Roger - Senate Energy, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Phone: 360-786-7461
E-mail: rodger_ri@leg.wa.gov

Jim Arthur - CTED Facilitator
Phone: 360-725-2809
E-mail: jima@cted.wa.gov

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Last Update: 11/21/00

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