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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1166
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AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed Legislature - 2002 Regular Session
State of Washington 57th Legislature 2001
Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/26/2001. Referred to
Committee on .
Allowing state agencies
to sponsor salmon recovery projects.
AN ACT Relating to
entities eligible to be project sponsors for salmon recovery funding board
grants; and amending RCW 77.85.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 77.85.010 and 2000 c
107 s 92 are each amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this
section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires
otherwise.
(1) "Adaptive
management" means reliance on scientific methods to test the results of
actions taken so that the management and related policy can be changed promptly
and appropriately.
(2) "Critical
pathways methodology" means a project scheduling and management process
for examining interactions between habitat projects and salmonid species,
prioritizing habitat projects, and assuring positive benefits from habitat
projects.
(3) "Habitat
project list" is the list of projects resulting from the critical pathways
methodology under RCW 77.85.060(2). Each project on the list must have a
written agreement from the landowner on whose land the project will be
implemented. Projects include habitat restoration projects, habitat protection
projects, habitat projects that improve water quality, habitat projects that
protect water quality, habitat-related mitigation projects, and habitat project
maintenance and monitoring activities.
(4) "Habitat work
schedule" means those projects from the habitat project list that will be
implemented during the current funding cycle. The schedule shall also include
a list of the entities and individuals implementing projects, the start date,
duration, estimated date of completion, estimated cost, and funding sources for
the projects.
(5) "Limiting
factors" means conditions that limit the ability of habitat to fully
sustain populations of salmon. These factors are primarily fish passage
barriers and degraded estuarine areas, riparian corridors, stream channels, and
wetlands.
(6) "Project
sponsor" is a county, city, special district, tribal government, state
agency, a combination of such governments through interlocal or
interagency agreements ((provided under chapter 39.34 RCW)), a
nonprofit organization, regional fisheries enhancement group, or one or
more private citizens. A project sponsored by a state agency may be funded
by the board only if it is included on the habitat project list submitted by
the lead entity for that area and the state agency has a local partner that
would otherwise qualify as a project sponsor.
(7) "Salmon"
includes all species of the family Salmonidae which are capable of
self-sustaining, natural production.
(8) "Salmon
recovery plan" means a state plan developed in response to a proposed or
actual listing under the federal endangered species act that addresses limiting
factors including, but not limited to harvest, hatchery, hydropower, habitat,
and other factors of decline.
(9) "Tribe"
or "tribes" means federally recognized Indian tribes.
(10) "WRIA"
means a water resource inventory area established in chapter 173-500 WAC as it
existed on January 1, 1997.
(11)
"Owner" means the person holding title to the land or the person
under contract with the owner to lease or manage the legal owner's property.
