VETO MESSAGE ON SB 5083-S2

                        May 16, 1991

To the Honorable, the Senate

  of the State of Washington

Ladies and Gentlemen:

      I am returning herewith, without my approval Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5083 entitled:

"AN ACT Relating to the reestablishment of salmon hatcheries."

      Sections 1 and 2 of this legislation, although important, do not need to be set forth in state statute.  The Department of Fisheries has pursued funding for the Toutle Hatchery from Congress in the past, and will continue to do so into the future.

      The information requested in section 3 to be submitted by the Department of Fisheries to the various legislative committees is already provided to the Legislature in preparing the biennial budget.  It is unnecessary to codify a reporting function which is already standard procedure.

      For these reasons, I have vetoed Second Substitute Senate Bill No. 5083 in its entirety.

                        Respectfully submitted,

                        Booth Gardner

                        Governor