RCW 70A.65.330: Compliance instrument markets—Analysis.

(1) The department shall provide analysis and forecasts of the compliance instrument markets created by this chapter, including:

(a) The prices in primary and secondary compliance instrument markets;

(b) Trends in compliance instrument supply and demand and prices;

(c) Activities in the markets, categorized by type of market participant; and

(d) The share of the allowance budget consumed by various categories of registered entities.

(2) The department must consider the analysis in subsection (1) of this section in adopting rules and otherwise implementing the requirements of this chapter.