WSR 99-22-076

PERMANENT RULES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


[ Filed November 2, 1999, 11:29 a.m. ]

Date of Adoption: November 2, 1999.

Purpose: This rule establishes a fee schedule for plant pathology laboratory diagnostic services and was last amended effective July 1, 1999. The changes proposed for expedited adoption reduce two fees that were inadvertently raised beyond the fiscal growth factor in the changes effective July 1, 1999. These two erroneous fee amounts were never utilized or charged.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 16-470-911.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapter 17.24 RCW.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 99-18-104 on September 1, 1999.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

November 2, 1999

Jim Jesernig

Director


AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 99-12-035, filed 5/26/99, effective 6/26/99)

WAC 16-470-911
Schedule of fees and charges--Applicable fees and charges--Effective July 1, 1999.

(1) Hourly rate

(a) Business hours . . . . . . . . . . . . $26.90

(b) Nonbusiness hours (see WAC 16-407-905) . . . . . . . . . . . . $34.40

(2) Laboratory diagnostic services, except as provided in subsection (3) or (4) of this section, are charged at the applicable hourly rate plus materials.

(3) Plant pathology laboratory diagnostic fees are as follows:


Identity

Determi-

nation

 1 sample
 5 samples
 10 samples
 50 samples
 100+samples
virus $80.70 ea $((59.20))

59.15 ea

 $45.20 ea $17.20 ea $ 2.65 ea
bacteria ((37.65))

35.60 ea

 34.40 ea 32.25 ea 31.20 ea 31.20 ea
fungus 37.65 ea 32.25 ea 31.20 ea 30.10 ea 27.90 ea
nematode 27.90 ea 25.80 ea 23.65 ea 23.65 ea 21.50 ea
Note: To receive volume rates, samples must be submitted as a unit and identification request must be for one specific virus, bacterium, fungus, or nematode.

(4) For large projects, the department reserves the right to provide service by written agreement at a single, negotiated cost or at a negotiated rate.

[Statutory Authority: Chapter 17.24 RCW.  99-12-035, § 16-470-911, filed 5/26/99, effective 6/26/99.]

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