SB 5723-S - DIGEST
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Requires the conservation commission to coordinate a process to examine the issue of achieving the state's water quality objectives relating to livestock operations. Expires December 31, 2011.

Authorizes the directors of the department of agriculture, the department of ecology, and the conservation commission to assign personnel to this activity and provide oversight to the process. Expires December 31, 2011.

Prohibits the department of ecology from imposing civil penalties to livestock operations as a nonpoint source until it has received certain testing results.