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SENATE BILL 6098
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session
By Senators Jacobsen, Swecker, Fraser, Eide and Spanel
Read first time 04/15/1999. Referred to Committee on Environmental Quality & Water Resources.
AN ACT Relating to public water systems; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The purpose of this act is to promote an increase in the conservation and efficient use of water by public water systems; to encourage public water supply management to occur on a regionally coordinated basis, where practicable, in a fashion that balances the use of currently developed and future public water supply with protection of the natural environment and instream resources, including fisheries; and to better reflect the interests of tribes and other existing water right holders in watershed management planning.
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