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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1191

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Agriculture & Ecology (originally sponsored by Representatives Morris, Dunn, Linville and Quall)

 

Read first time 02/26/1999.

  Providing a limited exemption from the substantial development provisions of the shoreline management act for motion picture production.


    AN ACT Relating to the temporary development of shorelines; and adding a new section to chapter 90.58 RCW.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 90.58 RCW to read as follows:

    A person who uses a shoreline location for the production of a motion picture is exempt from the substantial development permit requirement of this chapter when all of the following apply:

    (1) The local government determines the production will be consistent with the local shoreline master program and all applicable land use plans and development regulations;

    (2) The person seeking the exemption completes a state environmental policy act checklist and provides it to the appropriate local government and the appropriate local government determines the production will have no significant adverse impact on the environment, including but not limited to:

    (a) Fish or wildlife;

    (b) Fish or wildlife habitat;

    (c) Water quality;

    (d) Aesthetic values;

    (3) The person seeking the exemption notifies all property owners within three hundred feet of the proposed site of his or her intention to use the site;

    (4) The use of the shoreline location for motion picture production will terminate within a period of one year or less;

    (5) The production does not interfere with the normal commercial and navigational use of surface waters of the state although some interference with normal recreational use of surface waters and shorelines of the state may occur;

    (6) An environmental assessment of the existing conditions of the shorelines of the state to be used for the motion picture, and a mitigation and restoration plan for same, are provided to the local government before the start of the motion picture project.  The mitigation and restoration plan must be consistent with the local shoreline master program and all applicable land use plans and development regulations.  The mitigation and restoration plan must be approved by the local government before the motion picture project may begin within shorelines of the state.  The mitigation and restoration plan shall be implemented immediately after the completion of the production as provided under this section; and

    (7) A performance bond is provided to the local government before the start of a motion picture project to ensure the mitigation and restoration plan is satisfactorily completed.

 


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