BILL REQ. #:  H-0442.1 

Read first time 01/17/2003.   Referred to Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources.

     AN ACT Relating to irrigation district boards of joint control; and amending RCW 87.80.005.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 87.80.005 and 1996 c 320 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
     (1) "Area of jurisdiction" means all lands within the exterior boundary of the composite area served by the irrigation entities that comprise the board of joint control as the boundary is represented on the map filed under RCW 87.80.030.
     (2) "Irrigation entity" means an irrigation district or an operating entity for a division within a federal reclamation project; or a water company supplying water for irrigation, an individual irrigation water user, or water company, whose source of water is the same as the irrigation district.
     (3) "Joint use facilities" means those works, including reservoirs, canals, hydroelectric facilities, pumping stations, drainage works, reserved works as may be transferred by contracts with the United States, and system interties that are determined by the board of joint control to provide common benefit to its members.
     (4) "Ownership interest" means the irrigation entity holds water rights in its name for the benefit of its water users or, in federal reclamation projects, the irrigation entity has a contractual responsibility for delivery of water to its individual water users.
     (5) "Source of water" means a hydrological distinct river or aquifer system from which board of joint control member entities appropriate water.