Environmental justice assessment notices
Beginning July 1, 2023, the Healthy Environment for All Act (HEAL Act) requires specific state agencies to conduct an environmental justice assessment for significant agency actions. Significant agency actions includes:
- The development and adoption of significant legislative rules as defined in RCW 34.05.328.
- The development and adoption of any new grant or loan program that the agency is explicitly authorized or required by statute to implement.
- A capital project, grant, or loan award costing at least $12,000,000.
- A transportation project, grant, or loan costing at least $15,000,000.
- The submission of agency request legislation to the Office of the Governor or the OFM for approval.
Under RCW 70A.02.090 each covered agency must file a notice with us of significant agency actions for which the agency is initiating an environmental justice assessment. We prepare a list of all filings received from covered agencies each week to post here.
Agencies covered by the HEAL Act or who have opted in to the HEAL Act requirements include the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Ecology, Health, Natural Resources, Transportation, the Office of the Attorney General, and the Puget Sound Partnership.
Below is list of state agency environmental justice assessments that you can filter by agency or type of action, or use the search bar to find certains terms. These are updated every Friday. Select an action for more information, including a link to the website for the relevant agency.
| Date submitted | Date initiated | Agency | Action |
Type |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/08/2024 | 01/01/2024 | Puget Sound Partnership | 2026-2030 Action Agenda for Puget Sound | Other | |
| 01/12/2024 | 01/08/2024 | Agriculture, Department of | Aligning electric vehicle supply equipment rules with federal technical requirements | Significant legislative rules | |
| 04/16/2024 | 04/11/2024 | Agriculture, Department of | Accreditation of Cannabis Laboratories | Significant legislative rules | |
| 01/18/2024 | 01/18/2024 | Ecology, Department of | Chapters 173-400 and 173-401 WAC, General Regulations for Air Pollution Sources | Significant legislative rules | |
| 05/02/2024 | 05/02/2024 | Ecology, Department of | Chapters 173-18, -20, -22, -26, and -27 WAC, Shoreline Management Act Rules Update | Significant legislative rules | |
| 01/22/2024 | 12/29/2023 | Commerce, Department of | Updates to Growth Management Administrative Rules for Climate Change Planning | Significant legislative rules | |
| 08/01/2023 | 08/01/2023 | Health, Department of | Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Program Rulemaking | Significant legislative rules | |
| 11/01/2023 | 11/01/2023 | Ecology, Department of | Rulemaking announcement: Amending Emergency Drought Relief, 173-166 WAC | Significant legislative rules | |
| 02/06/2024 | 01/01/2024 | Agriculture, Department of | Japanese Beetle Quarantine Expansion | Significant legislative rules | |
| 11/16/2023 | 11/16/2023 | Health, Department of | Private Detention Facilities Rule Making | Significant legislative rules | |
| 12/08/2023 | 12/08/2023 | Ecology, Department of | Safer Products for Washington Cycle 1.5 Rulemaking | Significant legislative rules | |
| 12/18/2023 | 12/18/2023 | Ecology, Department of | Clean Fuels Program Rulemaking (Amendments to 173-424 WAC) | Significant legislative rules | |
| 09/12/2023 | 09/12/2023 | Ecology, Department of | Cap-and-Invest Offsets Rulemaking (Chapter 173-446 WAC) | Significant legislative rules | |
| 01/10/2024 | 12/04/2023 | Agriculture, Department of | Aligning general pesticide rules with federal certification and training standards | Significant legislative rules | |
| 03/19/2024 | 03/19/2024 | Ecology, Department of | Chapter 173-905 WAC - Battery Stewardship Program | Significant legislative rules | |
| 11/22/2023 | 11/22/2023 | Ecology, Department of | Rulemaking to amend chapter 173-305 WAC Hazardous Waste Fee Regulation | Significant legislative rules | |
| 01/11/2024 | 05/01/2023 | Commerce, Department of | Updating Housing WACs | Significant legislative rules | |
| 04/11/2024 | 04/11/2024 | Ecology, Department of | Cap-and-Invest Linkage Rulemaking (Chapter 173-446 WAC and Chapter 173-441 WAC) | Significant legislative rules | |
| 04/18/2024 | 08/28/2023 | Transportation, Department of | SR 900/57th Ave S to S 135th – Environmental Justice Assessment | Transportation project, grant, or loan of at least $15 million | |
| 02/08/2024 | 10/02/2023 | Transportation, Department of | SR 525 Mukilteo Bridge over Railroad – Bridge Replacement | Transportation project, grant, or loan of at least $15 million | |
| 02/08/2024 | 07/27/2023 | Transportation, Department of | I-90 Judkins Park Station – Reconnecting Communities | Transportation project, grant, or loan of at least $15 million |
