CERTIFICATION
OF ENROLLMENT
SENATE
BILL 5894
Chapter
125, Laws of 1995
54th
Legislature
1995
Regular Session
Transportation
department wetlands strategic plan
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/23/95
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Passed by the Senate March 15, 1995
YEAS 42 NAYS 0
JOEL PRITCHARD
President of the Senate
Passed by the House April 10, 1995
YEAS 97 NAYS 0
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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.
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CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker of the
House of Representatives
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MARTY BROWN
Secretary
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Approved April 20, 1995 Place
Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.
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FILED
April 20, 1995 - 1:18 p.m.
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MIKE LOWRY
Governor of the State of
Washington
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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
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.
Passed
the Senate March 15, 1995.
Passed
the House April 10, 1995.
Approved by the Governor April 20, 1995.
Filed in
Office of Secretary of State April 20, 1995.