CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

             ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5919

 

 

                    Chapter 19, Laws of 2001

 

 

                        57th Legislature

                  2001 Second Special Session

 

 

WATER STORAGE PROJECTS

 

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  9/20/01

 

Passed by the Senate June 6, 2001

  YEAS 43   NAYS 0

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

 

Passed by the House June 20, 2001

  YEAS 83   NAYS 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5919 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

              FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

            TONY M. COOK

                            Secretary

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

 

Approved July 13, 2001 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.   

                                FILED          

 

 

            July 13, 2001 - 3:10 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                 Secretary of State

                 State of Washington


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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5919

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         Passed Legislature - 2001 Second Special Session

 

State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

 

By Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Water (originally sponsored by Senators Morton, Fraser, Honeyford and Rasmussen)

 

READ FIRST TIME 02/21/01.

Providing for the assessment of potential site locations for water storage projects.   


    AN ACT Relating to the assessment of potential site locations for water storage projects; amending RCW 90.82.070; and creating a new section.

 

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

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.  The legislature recognizes the potential for additional water storage as a solution to the water supply needs of the state.  Last year the legislature created a task force 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.  One solution discussed by the task force to address the state's water supply problem is to store water when there is excess runoff and stream flow, and deliver or release it during the low flow period when it is needed.  The task force discussed the need for assessments of potential site locations for water storage projects.  The legislature intends this act to assist in obtaining the assessments relating to water storage.

 

    Sec. 2.  RCW 90.82.070 and 1998 c 247 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    Watershed planning under this chapter shall address water quantity in the management area by undertaking an assessment of water supply and use in the management area and developing strategies for future use.

    (1) The assessment shall include:

    (a) An estimate of the surface and ground water present in the management area;

    (b) An estimate of the surface and ground water available in the management area, taking into account seasonal and other variations;

    (c) An estimate of the water in the management area represented by claims in the water rights claims registry, water use permits, certificated rights, existing minimum instream flow rules, federally reserved rights, and any other rights to water;

    (d) An estimate of the surface and ground water actually being used in the management area;

    (e) An estimate of the water needed in the future for use in the management area;

    (f) An identification of the location of areas where aquifers are known to recharge surface bodies of water and areas known to provide for the recharge of aquifers from the surface; and

    (g) An estimate of the surface and ground water available for further appropriation, taking into account the minimum instream flows adopted by rule or to be adopted by rule under this chapter for streams in the management area including the data necessary to evaluate necessary flows for fish.

    (2) Strategies for increasing water supplies in the management area, which may include, but are not limited to, increasing water supplies through water conservation, water reuse, the use of reclaimed water, voluntary water transfers, aquifer recharge and recovery, additional water allocations, or additional water storage and water storage enhancements.  The objective of these strategies is to supply water in sufficient quantities to satisfy the minimum instream flows for fish and to provide water for future out-of-stream uses for water identified in subsection (1)(e) and (g) of this section and to ensure that adequate water supplies are available for agriculture, energy production, and population and economic growth under the requirements of the state's growth management act, chapter 36.70A RCW.  These strategies, in and of themselves, shall not be construed to confer new water rights.  The watershed plan must address the strategies required under this subsection.

    (3) The assessment may include the identification of potential site locations for water storage projects.  The potential site locations may be for either large or small projects and cover the full range of possible alternatives.  The possible alternatives include off-channel storage, underground storage, the enlargement or enhancement of existing storage, and on-channel storage.


    Passed the Senate June 6, 2001.

    Passed the House June 20, 2001.

Approved by the Governor July 13, 2001.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State July 13, 2001.