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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Representatives McIntire, Dickerson, Kenney, Poulsen, Cody, Lantz, Edmonds, Hurst, Ruderman, Keiser, Miloscia, Wood, Darneille, Lovick, Romero and Rockefeller

Read first time 02/09/2001.  Referred to Committee on Local Government & Housing.

Requiring local shoreline master plan compliance with the endangered species act.

    AN ACT Relating to requiring local shoreline master plan compliance with the endangered species act; and amending RCW 90.58.080.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 90.58.080 and 1995 c 347 s 305 are each amended to read as follows:

    Local governments shall develop or amend, within twenty-four months after the adoption of guidelines as provided in RCW 90.58.060, a master program for regulation of uses of the shorelines of the state consistent with the required elements of the guidelines adopted by the department.  If the area covered by a local government master plan contains a species listed as threatened or endangered under 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1538, the local government must either:  (1) Use the sections of the guidelines adopted under RCW 90.58.060 that have been approved as sufficient to protect that species; or (2) obtain an approved habitat conservation plan under 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1539 or an exemption under 16 U.S.C. Sec. 1533(d) prior to approval by the department.

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