WSR 20-06-024

PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

BOARD OF REGISTRATION

FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS

AND LAND SURVEYORS

[Filed February 24, 2020, 9:00 a.m.]

Subject of Possible Rule Making: Chapter 196-26A WAC, Registered professional engineers and land surveyor fees; and chapter 196-30 WAC, Fees for on-site wastewater treatment system designers and inspectors.

Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: Chapters 18.43 and 18.210 RCW.

Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Changes will remove reference to the director of the department of licensing and will speak to the legal history questions on the initial and renewal applications for professional engineers, land surveyors and on-site wastewater designers and inspectors as a requirement for license renewal.

Process for Developing New Rule: Notice will be made to stakeholders and active licensees; and will be posted on our website and distributed through the board and board staff. Interested parties may contact the individual listed below and the public may also participate by commenting after amendments are proposed by providing written comments or giving oral testimony during the public hearing process.

Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Shanan Gillespie, P.O. Box 9025, phone 360-664-1570, TTY 711, email jshanan.gillespie@brpels.wa.gov [shanan.gillespie@brpels.wa.gov], website https://brpels.wa.gov/about-us/laws-and-rules/rulemaking-activity/.

February 24, 2020

Ken Fuller

Executive Director