HB 2736-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

     Declares that the purpose of the task force is to examine the role of increased water storage in providing water supplies to meet the needs of fish, population growth, and economic development, and to enhance the protection of people's lives and their property and the protection of aquatic habitat through flood control facilities.  For this purpose, increased storage may be in the form of surface storage including off-stream storage, underground storage, or the enlargement or enhancement of existing structures.  The task force shall also examine means of providing funding for increased water storage.

     Makes an appropriation of one hundred fifty thousand dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001, from the general fund to the department of ecology for the purposes of this act.