CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        SENATE BILL 5894

 

 

 

 

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate March 15, 1995

  YEAS 42   NAYS 0

 

 

 

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House April 10, 1995

  YEAS 97   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5894 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

                            Secretary

 

 

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

                                FILED

          

 

 

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                         SENATE BILL 5894

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             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

 

By Senators Prentice, Owen, Haugen, Wood, Kohl, Fairley, Sellar, Rasmussen, Oke, Schow and Winsley

 

Read first time 02/13/95.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

 

Planning for department of transportation wetlands.



    AN ACT Relating to wetlands owned by the department of transportation; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The department of transportation shall develop a strategic plan for the long-term monitoring and maintenance of wetlands owned by the department.  The plan must consider:

    (1) An evaluation of the long-term monitoring and maintenance costs of existing and planned sites;

    (2) The feasibility of developing wetland banks that could be used by other public entities.  Consideration must be given to allocating costs for the initial development of a bank and to prorating ongoing monitoring and maintenance costs;

    (3) The feasibility of selling, contracting, or transferring title of department-owned wetland bank property or mitigation sites to other public agencies or nonprofit environmental corporations;

    (4) A legal analysis of the state constitutional prohibition against lending of the state's credit;

    (5) An analysis of the statutory barriers prohibiting mitigation of wetland losses on a regional or watershed basis and recommendations for achieving a regional or watershed approach to mitigation;

    (6) A summary of planned or potential wetland banks; and

    (7) An analysis of how wetland habitat can be valued and quantified and how mitigation credits could be developed.

    The department shall present the strategic plan to the standing committees on transportation of the senate and the house of representatives no later than January 15, 1997.

 


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