CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 5651

                   Chapter 206, Laws of 1991

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

        SCENIC RIVER SYSTEM‑-LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER ADDED

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/28/91

Passed by the Senate March 7, 1991

  Yeas 46   Nays 0

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 16, 1991

  Yeas 80   Nays 17

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

Approved May 16, 1991

           BOOTH GARDNER           

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 SENATE BILL 5651 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

           GORDON A. GOLOB            Secretary

                                     FILED         

                 May 16, 1991 - 10:16 a.m.

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                                 SENATE BILL 5651

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Saling, Stratton, West and McCaslin.

Read first time February 13, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Environment & Natural Resources.Adding the Little Spokane river to the scenic river system.

     AN ACT Relating to the scenic river system; amending RCW 79.72.080; and making an appropriation.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 79.72.080 and 1977 ex.s. c 161 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

     The following rivers of the state of Washington are hereby designated as being in the scenic river system of the state of Washington:

     (1) The Skykomish river from the junction of the north and south forks of the Skykomish river:

     (a) Downstream approximately fourteen miles to its junction with the Sultan river;

     (b) Upstream approximately twenty miles on the south fork to the junction of the Tye and Foss rivers;

     (c) Upstream approximately eleven miles on the north fork to its junction with Bear creek;

     (2) The Beckler river from its junction with the south fork of the Skykomish river upstream approximately eight miles to its junction with Rapid river; ((and))

     (3) The Tye river from its junction with the south fork of the Skykomish river upstream approximately fourteen miles to Tye Lake; and

(4) The Little Spokane river from the upstream boundary of the state park boat put-in site near Rutter parkway and downstream to its confluence with the Spokane river.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.      The sum of thirty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1993, from the general fund to the parks and recreation commission for the purpose of offsetting the costs of:  A management assessment plan, an inventory of river resources, preparation of maps, facilitation of public forums and task forces, and the production of interim and final river management reports to the legislature.

     Passed the Senate March 7, 1991.

     Passed the House April 16, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 16, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 16, 1991.