CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1166

 

 

                   Chapter 210, Laws of 2002

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                      2002 Regular Session

 

 

SALMON RECOVERY--PROJECT SPONSORS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  6/13/02

Passed by the House March 9, 2002

  Yeas 94   Nays 0

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate March 5, 2002

  Yeas 47   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Cynthia Zehnder, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1166 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved March 28, 2002 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.                

                                FILED                

 

           March 28, 2002 - 8:43 a.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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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 House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Rockefeller, Buck, Doumit, Pennington and Edwards; by request of Salmon Recovery Funding Board)

 

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.


    Passed the House March 9, 2002.

    Passed the Senate March 5, 2002.

Approved by the Governor March 28, 2002.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State March 28, 2002.