Regulations on the Books
The process of rule maing (regulation) as was expalined to me yesterday by the Public Disclosure employee, Danny McQueen, of the WSDA:
The RCW’s are the laws passed by the legislature.
The WAC’s are the “How to rules”.
We have all been signing up for alerts for the legislature. Unbeknownst to us, if the legislature is not addressing an issue that Governor, WSDA or any other agency wants to have happen they can make a regulation.
The Process
All they have to do is publish it for 20 Days in the Washington State Register. There is a hearing. You can go and testify in person or do a write in testimony. Each issue has a deadline for comments and testimony. The agency can then respond to the comments but not necessarily take anything we say into consideration. At this time WSDA says that they have limited technology so the hearing cannot be heard on TVW site.
I waas told that the Governor has her agenda which she worked on with the agencies during the summer. So all this is pre-planned.
Kick off (WSDA) Ag Watch
What we need now is to kick off the ‘Ag Watch’. Who would be interested in monitoring the State Register once a week for WSDA action and getting word back to me and I can post it? To me it sounded like this is where the bulk of our regulations stem from.
I will be verifying with my legal experts if this is in fact the rule making procedure allowed by law but I thought it important to get y’all looking at the Washington State Register for activity. Dr. Eldridge is moving swift and has the agri-vultures on his side.
I just checked, we have regulation proposals in play…check them out:
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