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                                  HOUSE BILL 1946

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Ogden, Cooper, H. Myers, Morris, Peery and Riley.

Read first time February 15, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.Designating the Erwin O. Rieger Memorial Highway.

     AN ACT Relating to the Erwin O. Rieger Memorial Highway; and amending RCW 47.17.640.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 47.17.640 and 1984 c 7 s 136 are each amended to read as follows:

     A state highway to be known as state route number 501 is established as follows:

     Beginning at a junction with state route number 5 at Vancouver, thence northerly by way of ((the)) Lower River Road and an extension thereof to Ridgefield, thence easterly to a junction with state route number 5 in the vicinity south of La Center.  That portion of state route number 501 from the northerly junction of N.W. Lower River Road to the Ridgefield city limits is designated "the Erwin O. Rieger Memorial Highway."  The department may enter into an agreement with the Port of Vancouver, ((and/or)) Clark county ((and/or)), or the United States Army Engineers, or any combination thereof, to obtain material dredged from the Columbia river and have it stockpiled at no expense to the state.