CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1865

 

 

                   Chapter 229, Laws of 2001

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                2001 Regular Legislative Session

 

 

WATERSHED PLANNING

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/22/01

Passed by the House April 13, 2001

  Yeas 88   Nays 0

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the House of Representatives

     

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

 

Passed by the Senate April 10, 2001

  Yeas 47   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

We, Timothy A. Martin and Cynthia Zehnder, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1865  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

           CYNTHIA ZEHNDER

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

 

 

Approved May 9, 2001 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.               

                                FILED                

 

              May 9, 2001 - 8:51 a.m.

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1865

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                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

             Passed Legislature - 2001 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

 

By Representatives G. Chandler and Grant

 

Read first time 02/07/2001.  Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Ecology.

  Changing watershed planning provisions.        


    AN ACT Relating to irrigation districts acting as initiating governments for watershed planning; and amending RCW 90.82.060.

 

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

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 90.82.060 and 1998 c 247 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Planning conducted under this chapter must provide for a process to allow the local citizens within a WRIA or multi-WRIA area to join together in an effort to:  (a) Assess the status of the water resources of their WRIA or multi-WRIA area; and (b) determine how best to manage the water resources of the WRIA or multi-WRIA area to balance the competing resource demands for that area within the parameters under RCW 90.82.120.

    (2) Watershed planning under this chapter may be initiated for a WRIA only with the concurrence of:  (a) All counties within the WRIA; (b) the largest city or town within the WRIA unless the WRIA does not contain a city or town; and (c) the water supply utility obtaining the largest quantity of water from the WRIA or, for a WRIA with lands within the Columbia Basin project, the water supply utility obtaining from the Columbia Basin project the largest quantity of water for the WRIA.  To apply for a grant for organizing the planning unit as provided for under RCW 90.82.040(2)(a), these entities shall designate the entity that will serve as the lead agency for the planning effort and indicate how the planning unit will be staffed.

    (3) Watershed planning under this chapter may be initiated for a multi-WRIA area only with the concurrence of:  (a) All counties within the multi-WRIA area; (b) the largest city or town in each WRIA unless the WRIA does not contain a city or town; and (c) the water supply utility obtaining the largest quantity of water in each WRIA.

    (4) If entities in subsection (2) or (3) of this section decide jointly and unanimously to proceed, they shall invite all tribes with reservation lands within the management area.

    (5) The entities in subsection (2) or (3) of this section, including the tribes if they affirmatively accept the invitation, constitute the initiating governments for the purposes of this section.

    (6) The organizing grant shall be used to organize the planning unit and to determine the scope of the planning to be conducted.  In determining the scope of the planning activities, consideration shall be given to all existing plans and related planning activities.  The scope of planning must include water quantity elements as provided in RCW 90.82.070, and may include water quality elements as contained in RCW 90.82.090, habitat elements as contained in RCW 90.82.100, and instream flow elements as contained in RCW 90.82.080.  The initiating governments shall work with state government, other local governments within the management area, and affected tribal governments, in developing a planning process.  The initiating governments may hold public meetings as deemed necessary to develop a proposed scope of work and a proposed composition of the planning unit.  In developing a proposed composition of the planning unit, the initiating governments shall provide for representation of a wide range of water resource interests.

    (7) Each state agency with regulatory or other interests in the WRIA or multi-WRIA area to be planned shall assist the local citizens in the planning effort to the greatest extent practicable, recognizing any fiscal limitations.  In providing such technical assistance and to facilitate representation on the planning unit, state agencies may organize and agree upon their representation on the planning unit.  Such technical assistance must only be at the request of and to the extent desired by the planning unit conducting such planning.  The number of state agency representatives on the planning unit shall be determined by the initiating governments in consultation with the governor's office.

    (8) As used in this section, "lead agency" means the entity that coordinates staff support of its own or of other local governments and receives grants for developing a watershed plan.


    Passed the House April 13, 2001.

    Passed the Senate April 10, 2001.

Approved by the Governor May 9, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 9, 2001.