HB 3110-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

     Requires that advanced environmental mitigation must give consideration to activities related to fish passage, fish habitat, wetlands, and flood management.

     Establishes flood management and flood hazard reduction pilot projects.  The department of transportation shall convene, in cooperation with the department of ecology, a technical committee of applicable state agencies and local and tribal governments to establish guidance for expenditures related to flood management and flood hazard reduction projects receiving advanced environmental mitigation funding.  The technical committee shall identify opportunities for coordination on flood-related issues and report to the appropriate legislative committees by December 1, 1998.