WAC 173-321-060   Eligible project costs.  (1) Eligible project costs for substance release grants shall include but not be limited to:

     (a) Hiring technical assistants to review and interpret documents;

     (b) Public involvement and public education activities;

     (c) Reviewing specific plans for environmental testing and analysis, reviewing reports summarizing the results of such plans and making recommendations for modifications to such plans.

     (d) Expendable personal property;

     (e) Other public participation activities as determined by the department on a case-by-case basis.

     (2) Eligible project costs for waste management priority grants shall include but not be limited to:

     (a) Assisting in developing and implementing programs that promote or improve state or local solid or hazardous waste management plans;

     (b) Assisting in developing programs or activities that promote and are consistent with the state solid or hazardous waste management priorities;

     (c) Expendable personal property;

     (d) Other public participation activities as determined by the department on a case-by-case basis.

     (3) Ineligible projects and grant costs shall include but not be limited to:

     (a) Independently collecting or analyzing samples at facility sites;

     (b) Hiring attorneys for legal actions against potentially liable persons, facility owners, or the department. Applicants who receive a grant award shall notify the department if legal action is intended or taken on the subject of the grant project or application;

     (c) Legislative lobbying activities;

     (d) Real property;

     (e) Nonexpendable personal property.



[Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.105D RCW. 01-05-024 (Order 97-09A), § 173-321-060, filed 2/12/01, effective 3/15/01. Statutory Authority: 1989 c 2. 89-21-072 (Order 89-26), § 173-321-060, filed 10/17/89, effective 11/17/89.]