{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-43.31.635","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 43.31.635","heading":"Industrial symbiosis grant program.","body":"(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, a competitive industrial symbiosis grant program is established in order to provide grants for the research, development, and deployment of local waste coordination projects.\n(2) Grants may go towards:\n(a) Existing industrial symbiosis efforts by public or private sector organizations;\n(b) Emerging industrial symbiosis opportunities involving public or private sector organizations, including projects arising from:\n(i) The industrial waste coordination program established in RCW 43.31.625;\n(ii) Conceptual work completed by public utilities to redirect their wastes to productive use; or\n(iii) Existing inventories or project concepts involving specific biobased wastes converted to renewable natural gas;\n(c) Research on product development using a specific waste flow;\n(d) Feasibility studies to evaluate potential biobased resources;\n(e) Feasibility studies for publicly owned utilities to evaluate business models to transform to multiutility operations or for the evaluation of potential symbiosis connections with other regional businesses; or\n(f) Other local waste coordination projects as determined by the department of commerce.\n(3) The department of commerce must develop a method and criteria for the allocation of grants, subject to the following:\n(a) Project allocation should reflect geographic diversity, with grants being distributed equally in western and eastern parts of the state, urban and rural areas, and small towns and large cities;\n(b) Project allocation should consider factors such as time to implementation and scale of economic or environmental benefits;\n(c) Grants must require a one-to-one nonstate to state match;\n(d) Individual grant awards may not exceed $500,000; and\n(e) Project allocation should avoid creating or worsening environmental health disparities and should make use of tools such as the department of health's environmental health disparities map.","path":["Title 43","Chapter 43.31"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=43.31.635","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T02:49:15Z","sha256":"27ba6fbba556f2568b2736e5565f328129c86b36b2c1133f1bcedc63ec2b91d8","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-43.31.625","next":"us-wa/rcw-43.31.645"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}