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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 3131
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C 012 L 85
State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Senators Thompson, Owen, Johnson and Zimmerman)
Read first time 1/30/85.
AN ACT Relating to dredge spoil; and amending RCW 79.90.160.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 22, chapter 21, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 79.90.160 are each amended to read as follows:
The legislature finds and declares that, due to the extraordinary volume of material washed down onto state-owned beds and shorelands in the Toutle river, Coweeman river, and portions of the Cowlitz river, the dredge spoils placed upon adjacent privately owned property in such areas, if further disposed, will be of nominal value to the state and that it is in the best interests of the state to allow further disposal without charge.
All dredge
spoil or materials removed from the state-owned beds and shores of the Toutle
river, Coweeman river and that portion of the Cowlitz river from two miles
above the confluence of the Toutle river to its mouth deposited on adjacent
private lands during the years 1980 through December 31, ((1985)) 1990,
as a result of dredging of these rivers for navigation and flood control
purposes may be sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of by owners of such
lands without the necessity of any charge by the department of natural
resources and free and clear of any interest of the department of natural
resources of the state of Washington.