CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1491

 

 

                    Chapter 63, Laws of 1999

 

 

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

 

 

COWLITZ COUNTY DREDGE SPOILS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the House March 8, 1999

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 6, 1999

  Yeas 44   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1491  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           DEAN R. FOSTER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved April 21, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.          

                                FILED                

 

           April 21, 1999 - 3:11 p.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1491

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Hatfield and Doumit

 

Read first time 01/26/1999.  Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Regulating the use of dredge spoils in Cowlitz County.  


    AN ACT Relating to the use of dredge spoils on the LT-1 and Cook Ferry Road Site in Cowlitz County; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The legislature finds and declares that the December 19, 1991, Washington state conveyance of the Mt. St. Helens Recovery Program, LT-1 and Cook Ferry Road Sites, to Cowlitz County, should be amended to enable Cowlitz County to use dredge spoils revenues for recreational purposes throughout the county.

    The legislature further declares that the department of transportation shall execute sufficient legal release to accomplish the following:

    (1) Dredge spoil revenues from either the LT-1 or Cook Ferry Road Site must be dedicated for recreational facilities and recreational administration costs throughout the county;

    (2) Any mining excavation must meet the requirements of the Shoreline Management Act of 1971 as identified in chapter 90.58 RCW;

    (3) Both the LT-1 and Cook Ferry Road Site must be preserved as a long-term dredging facility;

    (4) All other requirements in the December 19, 1991, conveyance between the state of Washington and Cowlitz County will remain in effect; and

    (5) The LT-1 and Cook Ferry Road Site remains subject to any agreements with the United States Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies of the federal government.


    Passed the House March 8, 1999.

    Passed the Senate April 6, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 21, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1999.