HB 2496 - DIGEST

(SUBSTITUTED FOR - SEE 1ST SUB)

     Provides that critical path scheduling information shall be used to facilitate salmon recovery efforts.  The schedule shall prioritize recovery efforts, show progress on projects, and thereby provide a historic record of recovery activities.  The schedule shall set the scope of restoration efforts in each watershed.  The schedule shall portray all recovery efforts in the watershed.

     Requires the critical path schedule to show the time frames in which restoration activities may occur in the watershed.  The department will facilitate the scheduling process by providing information regarding the following:  (1) All hatchery broodstock and release activities;

     (2) all wild run equilibrium brood broodstock and hatch activities;

     (3) the predicted run return times for all runs; and

     (4) the identification of the species and weak stock water resource inventory areas in the evolutionarily significant unit region.