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State Board of Health adopts new policy to retain Health Impact Review materials beyond six years
Summary
The Board voted unanimously to adopt Policy 2026-001, keeping HIR source materials internally beyond the current six‑year destruction timeline and keeping public summaries and final reports available online for ten years; members discussed costs and the wording ‘perpetuity.’
The Washington State Board of Health voted unanimously March 12 to adopt Policy 2026-001, changing how the Board retains Health Impact Review (HIR) materials. The policy directs staff to convert HIR source materials into internal reference records after six years while maintaining public-facing items — HIR request forms, executive summaries and final reports — on the Board’s website for ten years.
Board staff presented the draft policy and explained that…
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