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State Board of Health adopts policy to retain health impact review materials beyond six years

Washington State Board of Health · March 12, 2026
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Summary

The Washington State Board of Health voted to adopt a policy that converts health impact reviews (HIRs) and underlying source materials to internal reference materials after six years and retains summaries and final reports online for 10 years, citing the unique long-term value of HIR evidence.

The Washington State Board of Health voted to adopt a new records-retention policy for its health impact reviews, directing staff to preserve HIR source materials beyond the six-year schedule used for most state records.

Lindsay Herondine, a HIR policy analyst for board staff, told members the draft policy would "convert HIRs and underlying source material to reference material to retain internally in perpetuity and…

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