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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 653

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Valle, Barnes, Unsoeld, Patrick, Rust, Brough, D. Nelson, Cole, K. Wilson, Lux, Miller, Crane and May

Read first time 2/8/85 and referred to Select Committee on the Clean-up and Management of Puget Sound.

AN ACT Relating to pollution in Puget Sound; creating new sections; and declaring an emergency.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The select committee on the clean-up and management of Puget Sound shall conduct a study and propose a plan for the elimination of duplicative jurisdictions of the agencies which have mandates to remedy pollution problems, and which are listed on page nine of the 1984 annual report of the Puget Sound water pollution authority.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The select committee should encourage the Puget Sound water quality authority to ensure that certain actions should be pursued immediately without awaiting the results of further study or the preparation of a Puget Sound plan.  These include:

          (1) Funding and implementing secondary sewage treatment, industrial pretreatment, control of combined sewer overflows and strategies to solve inadequate on-site sewage treatment situations;

          (2) Control of nonpoint source pollution, including urban and rural polluted run-off problems;

          (3) Increased public education and involvement in protecting the Sound;

          (4) Funding and implementation of systematic Sound-wide water quality monitoring and of research directed at top-priority problems;

          (5) A Sound-wide plan for dredge spoil disposal and management, including a Sound-wide environment impact statement;

          (6) Clean-up of toxic contamination in urban embayments; and

          (7) Protection of wetlands and wildlife habitat.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.