CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5083
52nd Legislature
1991 Regular Session
Passed by the Senate April 22, 1991
Yeas 46 Nays 0
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 17, 1991
Yeas 94 Nays 0
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
Approved
Governor of the State of Washington
CERTIFICATE
I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5083 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.
Secretary
FILED
Secretary of State
State of Washington
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SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5083
AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session
State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators L. Smith, Snyder, Oke and Rasmussen).
Read first time March 1, 1991.
AN ACT Relating to the reestablishment of salmon hatcheries; and creating new sections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The once abundant salmon runs of the Toutle river were destroyed by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The department of fisheries has experimented by releasing salmon into Toutle river tributaries. They have found that the river conditions have sufficiently improved since the eruption of Mount St. Helens to allow for productive salmon hatchery operation. The legislature finds that it is of prime importance to reestablish the Toutle river fish runs by reopening the Toutle river hatchery.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. The department of fisheries shall request full funding from the federal government for the reconstruction and operation of the Green River salmon hatchery, located on the Green River tributary to the Toutle River. The department shall work with the Washington congressional delegation to achieve full funding for the Green River hatchery. To the extent that federal funds are available, the department shall reconstruct and operate that hatchery. The hatchery system on the Toutle River shall be operated in such a manner as to ensure that adult salmon are allowed to migrate upstream of the hatchery for natural spawning purposes.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. If full funding of the Green River hatchery is not made available to the department by the federal government, the department shall submit a report to the senate committee on environment and natural resources and to the house of representatives committee on fisheries and wildlife. The report shall be submitted by December 1, 1991, and shall describe the priorities used by the department to allocate salmon hatchery funding.