WAC 173-312-080   Allocation of grant funding.  (1) The department shall consider the following factors in calculating base funding levels, supplemental grant levels, and grant amounts for recipients:

     (a) Projected and actual revenue to the local toxics control account, and other funding sources cited in WAC 173-312-010(2), as determined by the department.

     (b) The number of people served by a local government.

     (2) Grants that may be awarded to eligible cities under WAC 173-312-040 may not exceed a city's proportionate share, based on population, of a county's base funding level as defined in subsection (3)(a) of this section, unless the department, the county, the health department or district and the grant-eligible entities as defined in WAC 173-312-040 agree otherwise.

     (3) Projected revenues to the local toxics control account that are available each biennium for coordinated prevention grant purposes must be divided into two portions, one for solid waste enforcement grants, and one for solid and hazardous waste implementation grants. Allocations will be calculated as follows:

     (a) For solid waste enforcement grants, an amount sufficient to provide each single-county jurisdictional health department with one hundred thousand dollars and each multicounty jurisdictional health department with one hundred fifty thousand dollars will be set aside. In future biennia the amount set aside for solid waste enforcement will be twenty percent of the total coordinated prevention grant allocation, and the single-county and multicounty solid waste enforcement grant allocation will be increased or decreased proportionately.

     (b) For solid and hazardous waste implementation grants, the remaining eighty percent is divided among counties by means of a formula that shall consist of two elements:

     (i) A fixed amount for each county, regardless of size; and

     (ii) A per capita amount based on county population size as determined by the United States census data or by the official estimates of the state office of financial management.

     (c) Counties that submit a coordinated application as defined in WAC 173-312-060 shall receive a ten percent increase if base level funding as defined in (b) of this subsection is an incentive.

     (d) After initial grant amounts have been determined for both categories of coordinated prevention grants based upon the applications, the unallocated funds shall become supplemental funds used to promote strategic initiatives that meet needs defined by the state solid waste planning process. Supplemental funds for solid and hazardous waste implementation grants will first be awarded within the initial solid and hazardous waste implementation coordinated prevention grant portion. Supplemental funds for solid waste enforcement grants will first be awarded within the initial solid waste enforcement coordinated prevention grant portion. Only when supplemental funds still remain in either category after the initial supplemental awards have been given shall the funds be awarded to the other portion.

     (4) Applicants must meet the requirements of this chapter to the satisfaction of the department in order to secure grant awards.



[Statutory Authority: Chapters 70.105D and 43.21 RCW. 02-05-070 (Order 01-11), § 173-312-080, filed 2/19/02, effective 3/22/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.105D.070(3). 00-19-016 (Order 00-19), § 173-312-080, filed 9/8/00, effective 10/9/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.21A.080. 91-11-090 (Order 90-65), § 173-312-080, filed 5/21/91, effective 6/21/91.]