RCW 43.21A.750: Residential project permit application review—Required time frame.

(1) Whenever the department imposes a fee on an applicant for the review of a project permit application related to a residential project, the department must complete its review within the time frames provided for a local government to issue a final decision in RCW 36.70B.080(1)(d). The time that a project permit application has been under review must be calculated from the date that the department receives the information necessary for it to begin its review until the department has issued its final decision, and excludes any time period that would be excluded from the calculation of the time that a local government has been reviewing an application under RCW 36.70B.080(1)(g).

(2) If the department does not complete its review within the required time frame, it must refund or forgo 20 percent of the fee that it charged, or would have charged, the applicant for the review. If the department does not collect a fee for its review of a portion of a project permit application, it is not required to provide any refund under this section.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "project permit" has the same meaning as in RCW 36.70B.020.