SB 5675.E - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

      Requires the plan to include strategies for employing displaced timber workers to conduct restoration activities.

VETO MESSAGE ON SB 5675

                        March 26, 1992

To the Honorable, the Senate

  of the State of Washington

Ladies and Gentlemen:

      I am returning herewith, without my approval as to section 2, Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5675 entitled:

"AN ACT Relating to Skagit river salmon."

      Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5675 calls for the Department of Fisheries to prepare a salmon recovery plan for the Skagit River.  Section 2 directs that the plan be completed by December 31, 1992.

      No funding was provided for the development of the salmon recovery plan.  Therefore, the time-frame established in section 2 cannot be met.  I am, however, directing the Department of Fisheries, within its budget, to complete a salmon recovery plan for the Skagit River by December 31, 1993.

      For this reason, I have vetoed section 2 of Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5675.

      With the exception of section 2, Engrossed Senate Bill No. 5675 is approved.

                        Respectfully submitted,

                        Booth Gardner

                        Governor