CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

HOUSE BILL 1391

Chapter 72, Laws of 2011

62nd Legislature
2011 Regular Session



GROUNDWATER RIGHTS--COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECT



EFFECTIVE DATE: 07/22/11

Passed by the House March 2, 2011
  Yeas 96   Nays 0

FRANK CHOPP
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Speaker of the House of Representatives


Passed by the Senate April 4, 2011
  Yeas 47   Nays 0


BRAD OWEN
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President of the Senate
 
CERTIFICATE

I, Barbara Baker, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1391 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.


BARBARA BAKER
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Chief Clerk
Approved April 14, 2011, 10:41 a.m.








CHRISTINE GREGOIRE
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Governor of the State of Washington
 
FILED
April 14, 2011







Secretary of State
State of Washington


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HOUSE BILL 1391
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Passed Legislature - 2011 Regular Session
State of Washington62nd Legislature2011 Regular Session

By Representatives Warnick, Haler, Fagan, Schmick, Chandler, McCune, Armstrong, Condotta, Johnson, Hinkle, and Parker

Read first time 01/20/11.   Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.



     AN ACT Relating to water delivered from the federal Columbia basin project; and amending RCW 90.44.510.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 90.44.510 and 2004 c 195 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:
     The department shall issue a superseding water right permit or certificate for a groundwater right where the source of water is an aquifer for which the department adopts rules establishing a groundwater management subarea and water from the federal Columbia basin project is delivered for use by a person who holds such a groundwater right. The superseding water right permit or certificate shall designate that portion of the groundwater right that is replaced by water from the federal Columbia basin project as a standby or reserve right that may be used when water delivered by the federal project is curtailed or otherwise not available. The period of curtailment or unavailability shall be deemed a low flow period under RCW 90.14.140(2)(b). The total number of acres irrigated by the person under the groundwater right and through the use of water delivered from the federal project must not exceed the quantity of water ((used)) authorized by the federal bureau of reclamation and number of acres irrigated under the person's water right permit or certificate for the use of water from the aquifer.


         Passed by the House March 2, 2011.
         Passed by the Senate April 4, 2011.
         Approved by the Governor April 14, 2011.
         Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 14, 2011.