HOUSE BILL REPORT

                  SB 5401

                      As Passed House:

                        April 9, 1999

Title:  An act relating to hydraulic projects.

Brief Description:  Repealing an obsolete provision pertaining to hydraulic project applications.

Sponsors:  Senator Haugen.

Brief History:

  Committee Activity:

Natural Resources:  3/24/99 [DP].

Floor Activity:

Passed House:  4/9/99, 93-0.

                 Brief Summary of Bill

$Repealing a provision of law related to hydraulic project applications.

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES

Majority Report:  Do pass.  Signed by 12 members:  Representatives Buck, Republican Co-Chair; Regala, Democratic Co-Chair; Anderson, Democratic Vice Chair; Sump, Republican Vice Chair; G. Chandler; Clements; Doumit; Eickmeyer; Ericksen; Pennington; Rockefeller and Stensen.

Staff:  Carole Richmond (786-7114).

Background:

The major flooding in western Washington in 1990 led to legislative changes to the Hydraulics Act in order to achieve rapid restoration of damaged lands.  One such change involves a requirement that the Department of Fish and Wildlife process hydraulic project applications within 30 days of receipt for the repair of dikes, sea walls, and other flood control structures that were damaged in the floods and windstorms of 1990.

Summary of Bill:

RCW 75.20.1001, which requires the department to process certain hydraulic project applications related to flood damage within 30 days, is repealed. 

Appropriation:  None.

Fiscal Note:  Not requested.

Effective Date:  Ninety days after adjournment of session in which bill is passed.

Testimony For:  None. 

Testimony Against:  None. 

Testified:  No one.