Washington · statute · Wash. Rev. Code ch. 70A.535 · 20 active provisions
(1) The legislature finds that rapid innovations in low carbon transportation technologies, including electric vehicles and clean transportation fuels, are at the threshold of widespread commercial deployment. In order to help prompt the use of clean fuels, other states have successfully implemented programs that reduc…
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.(1) "Alternative jet fuel" means a fuel that can be blended and used with conventional petroleum jet fuels without the need to modify aircraft engines and existing fuel distribution infrastructure, and that have…
(1) The department shall adopt rules that establish standards that reduce carbon intensity in transportation fuels used in Washington. The standards established by the rules must be based on the carbon intensity of gasoline and gasoline substitutes and the carbon intensity of diesel and diesel substitutes. The standard…
The rules adopted by the department to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions per unit of fuel energy specified in RCW 70A.535.025 must include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) Standards for greenhouse gas emissions attributable to the transportation fuels throughout their life cycles, including but…
(1) The rules adopted under RCW 70A.535.030 and 70A.535.025 must include exemptions for, at minimum, the following transportation fuels:(a) Fuels used in volumes below thresholds adopted by the department;(b) Fuels used for the propulsion of all aircraft, vessels, and railroad locomotives; and(c) Fuels used for the ope…
(1) The rules adopted under RCW 70A.535.030 and 70A.535.025 may allow the generation of credits from activities that support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation in Washington, including but not limited to:(a) Carbon capture and sequestration projects, including but not limited to:(i…
(1) Except where otherwise provided in this chapter, the department shall seek to adopt rules that are harmonized with the regulatory standards, exemptions, reporting obligations, rule updates, and other clean fuels program compliance requirements and methods for credit generation of other states that:(a) Have adopted…
(1)(a) Each producer or importer of any amount of a transportation fuel that is ineligible to generate credits consistent with the requirements of RCW 70A.535.030(3) must register with the department.(b) Electric vehicle manufacturers and producers, importers, distributors, users, and retailers of transportation fuels…
(1)(a) Fifty percent of the revenues generated by an electric utility from credits earned from the electricity supplied to retail customers by an electric utility under the clean fuels program must be expended by the electric utility on transportation electrification projects, which may include projects to support the…
(1) Beginning May 1, 2025, and each May 1st thereafter, the department must post a report on the department's website that includes the following information regarding the previous calendar year of clean fuels program activities:(a) The program-wide number of credits and deficits generated by entities participating in…
(1) In consultation with the department, the utilities and transportation commission, and the department of agriculture, the department of commerce must develop a periodic fuel supply forecast to project the availability of fuels to Washington necessary for compliance with clean fuels program requirements.(2) Based upo…
(1) No later than 30 calendar days before the commencement of a compliance period, the department shall issue an order declaring a forecast deferral if the fuel supply forecast under RCW 70A.535.100 projects that the amount of credits that will be available during the forecast compliance period will be less than 100 pe…
(1) The director of the department may issue an order declaring an emergency deferral of compliance with the carbon intensity standard established under RCW 70A.535.025 no later than 15 calendar days after the date the department determines, in consultation with the governor's office and the department of commerce, tha…
(1) The department may require that persons that are required or elect to register or report under this chapter pay a fee. If the department elects to require program participants to pay a fee, the department must, after an opportunity for public review and comment, adopt rules to establish a process to determine the p…
(1) By December 1, 2030, the joint legislative audit and review committee must analyze the impacts of the initial five years of clean fuels program implementation and must submit a report summarizing the analysis to the legislature. The analysis must include, at minimum, the following components:(a) Costs and benefits,…
(1) By no later than December 31, 2023, the department must allow one or more carbon intensity pathways for alternative jet fuel.(2) The department must allow biomethane to be claimed as the feedstock for renewable diesel and alternative jet fuel consistent with that allowable for compressed natural gas, liquefied natu…
The clean fuels transportation investment account is created in the state treasury. All receipts to the state from clean fuel credits generated under this chapter from transportation investments funded in an omnibus transportation appropriations act, including those listed under RCW 70A.535.050(3), must be deposited in…
The clean fuels credit account is created in the state treasury. All receipts from clean fuel credits generated under this chapter by state agency activities not funded through an appropriation in an omnibus transportation appropriations act must be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only af…
(1)(a) All regulated parties and credit generators are required to submit reports under RCW 70A.535.070 in a timely manner to meet the entities' compliance obligations and shall comply with all requirements for recordkeeping, reporting, transacting credits, obtaining a carbon intensity calculation, and other provisions…
(1) The department shall publish on its website analysis and forecasts of the credit markets created by this chapter, including:(a) The prices of credits in Washington and the price of credits as compared to other jurisdictions implementing similar clean fuels policies;(b) Trends in credit supply and demand;(c) Activit…