PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 196-26A WAC, Registered professional engineers and land surveyors fees.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 18.43.035 and 18.43.050.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: To enact the requirement to end the fee suspension on July 1, 2008.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Negotiated rule making.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting George A. Twiss, Executive Director, Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, P.O. Box 9025, Olympia, WA 98507-9025, phone (360) 664-1575. Comments may be submitted through regular mail, phone, fax or e-mail. Draft language of rule amendments will be distributed to the board's list of interested persons.
March 5, 2008
Ralph Osgood
Assistant Director
Business and Professions Division