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Clerk 09/28/2001
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AN ORDINANCE adopting financial policies relating to the sewage treatment capacity charge; and amending Ordinance 13680, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 28.86.010 and Ordinance 13680, Section 16, as amended, and K.C.C. 28.86.160.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings. The metropolitan King County council makes the following legislative findings:
A. The council, as the legislative body of the metropolitan municipal corporation, has the statutory authority to impose capacity charges pursuant to RCW 35.58.570.
B. The purpose of the capacity charge is to protect water quality through regulating the orderly construction of the metropolitan sewerage facilities to serve new customers and to ensure that new customers bear their equitable share of the cost of such facilities. The capacity charge is based on the cost of the sewer facilities' excess capacity that is necessary to provide sewerage treatment to new users of the system. The capacity charge established by this ordinance will not exceed the amount necessary to recover all of the capital costs needed to serve new customers. Costs allocated to the capacity charge are limited to capital costs that are necessary and incurred to serve new customers. Revenues collected through the capacity charge shall be used for construction of sewerage facilities designed to protect water quality.
C. All customers connecting to local sewage collection systems tributary to King County's metropolitan sewage system since February 1, 1990, have been subject to a sewage treatment capacity charge. The capacity charge is billed and collected in accordance with K.C.C. 28.84.050 O.
D. On November 29, 1999, the metropolitan King County council adopted Ordinance 13680, which adopted the Regional Wastewater Services Plan (RWSP) and accordingly amended the Comprehensive Water Pollution Abatement Plan, a King County functional plan. The RWSP directed Ki...
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