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Department of Ecology
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Capital Overview
The Department of Ecology administers several key programs that
award grants and loans to public entities for wastewater treatment
facilities, agricultural pollution abatement, lake restoration
projects, stormwater management facilities, shellfish protection,
hazardous and solid waste planning and clean up, waste reduction
and recycling, and protection of agricultural water supplies.
In the past, the long-term goal has been to provide local governments
with financial assistance to achieve secondary treatment standards,
reduce combined sewer overflows, and construct solid waste disposal
facilities. As this has been accomplished, priorities have been
shifted toward implementing advanced wastewater treatment needs,
stormwater management, watershed planning, shellfish protection,
waste reduction and recycling, and solid and hazardous waste clean-up.
The Department is meeting the goals and priorities set forth
in the Model Toxics Control Act, the Centennial Clean Water Program
and the Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Program.
The Department owns the Breazeale Interpretive Center at the Padilla
Bay Estuary Reserve in Skagit County and two office buildings
in Thurston and Spokane Counties. Ecology's Environmental Laboratory,
located in leased space in Kitsap County, provides essential lab
services as part of Ecology's monitoring and enforcement functions.
Additional space is leased for offices in Spokane, Yakima, Bellevue,
Kennewick, and Bellingham.
Capital Plan Highlights
- Grants are provided through the Centennial Clean Water Fund
for assistance to public entities for water pollution control
facilities and related activities, and for the control, storage,
treatment, and disposal of wastewater.
- Grants are provided through the Local Toxics Control Account
for assistance to local governments for remedial action to protect
sources of public drinking water, manage ground water monitoring
wells, implement solid and hazardous waste planning, conduct solid
waste enforcement, promote waste reduction and recycling, implement
hazardous waste plans, and support household hazardous waste collection.
- Loans totaling $53.2 million in state funds and $44 million
in federal funds are provided through the Water Pollution Control
Revolving Account to help state and local governments for planning,
design, acquisition, construction and improvements of water pollution
control facilities.
- The amount of $6.4 million is provided for a Resource Conservation
Recovery Act facility investigation to identify possible migration
of hazardous waste from the older disposal trenches at the United
States Department of Energy Richland radioactive waste facility
at Hanford. Permanent closure of these trenches would begin in
1998 and continue through 1999.
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| 1997-99 Agency Detail |
| Department of Ecology |