{"data":{"id":"us-wa/rcw-54.28.010","jurisdiction":"us-wa","citation":"RCW 54.28.010","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter:\n(1) \"Operating property\" means all of the property utilized by a public utility district in the operation of a plant or system for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy for sale;\n(2) \"Taxing districts\" means counties, cities, towns, school districts, and road districts;\n(3) \"Distributes to consumers\" means the sale of electric energy to ultimate consumers thereof, and does not include sales of electric energy for resale by the purchaser;\n(4) \"Wholesale value\" means all costs of a public utility district associated with the generation and transmission of energy from its own generation and transmission system to the point or points of inter-connection with a distribution system owned and used by a district to distribute such energy to consumers, or in the event a distribution system owned by a district is not used to distribute such energy, then the term means the gross revenues derived by a district from the sale of such energy to consumers;\n(5) \"Thermal electric generating facility\" means a steam-powered electrical energy producing facility utilizing nuclear or fossil fuels;\n(6) \"Placed in operation\" means delivery of energy into a transmission or distribution system for use or sale in such a manner as to establish a value accruing to the power plant operator, except operation incidental to testing or start-up adjustments;\n(7) \"Impacted area\" for a thermal electric generating facility on a federal reservation means that area in the state lying within thirty-five statute miles of the most commonly used entrance of the federal reservation and which is south of the southern boundary of township fifteen north.","path":["Title 54","Chapter 54.28"],"source_url":"https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=54.28.010","current_through":"July 15, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T03:31:59Z","sha256":"ed8aebadc346218a0771b327b5dd31b99b27b7f7d7d5f5617875bdd5572086a0","source_id":"us-wa","stale":false,"prev":"us-wa/rcw-54.24.260","next":"us-wa/rcw-54.28.011"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}