Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:

"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that Washington is one of twenty-two states that have formed the United States climate alliance. The natural and working lands initiative within this alliance was created to identify best practices and policy pathways for protecting and enhancing resilient carbon sinks on natural and working lands and in forest products. Natural and working land types include forests, croplands, rangelands, wetlands, grasslands, aquatic lands, and urban green space.

(2) The legislature intends Washington to continue to participate in the natural and working lands initiative to identify opportunities to advance carbon sequestration and storage regarding natural and working lands and forest products, including:

(a) Improving inventory methods for land-based carbon flux;

(b) Identifying best practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase resilient carbon sequestration, including through forest products;

(c) Advancing programs, policies, and incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including reducing catastrophic wildfire, and enhance resilient carbon sequestration;

(d) Undertaking actions that will support a collective alliance-wide goal to maintain natural and working lands as a net sink of carbon and to protect and increase carbon storage capacity, while balancing near and long-term sequestration objectives;

(e) Integrating priority actions and pathways into state greenhouse gas mitigation plans by 2020; and

(f) Recognizing the carbon sequestration benefits of forest products based on a life-cycle analysis and product substitution.

(3) The legislature further intends that the state should build on existing efforts to understand carbon stocks, flux, trends, emissions, and benefits of carbon sequestration in forest products across the state's natural and working lands and identify opportunities to improve these inventories. This work must supplement existing inventories and scientifically based methodologies with the goal to improve inventory methods for land-based carbon flux in Washington state and to link carbon sequestration on natural and working lands in the state with the products made from those lands.

(4) This section expires January 1, 2023.

(2) The department must coordinate with the natural and working lands carbon sequestration advisory group created in section 4 of this act in the implementation of this section. This includes sharing with the advisory group the results of the inventory already initiated on carbon flux, stocks, trends, and forest products carbon sequestration on all forestlands throughout the state.

(3) By December 1, 2020, and consistent with RCW 43.01.036, the department must submit a report to the legislature:

(a) Summarizing the results of the inventory required under this section;

(b) Assessing any needs to further improve the carbon inventory on natural and working lands, accounting for carbon sequestration in forest products;

(c) Recommending, if relevant, improvements in carbon inventory activities such as data collection, frequency of inventory and reporting, and inventory methods; and

(d) Recommending an appropriate schedule on which the department will update or recomplete the carbon inventory initiated under this section for the purposes of sufficiently identifying stocks, flux, and trends in carbon related to Washington's natural and working lands.

(4) This section expires January 1, 2023.

(2) The department must coordinate with the natural and working lands carbon sequestration advisory group created in section 4 of this act in the implementation of this section.

(3) Nothing in the section requires a landowner to:

(a) Use the state as a liaison or a resource in pursuing opportunities in carbon markets; or

(b) Participate in a carbon market or incentive program.

(4) Nothing in the section is intended to change or interfere with landowner property rights.

(5) The department must issue a final report to the legislature by December 1, 2022, and an interim report by December 1, 2020, consistent with RCW 43.01.036, that:

(a) Detail the programs related to the implementation of this section;

(b) Identify barriers, including costs, to the use of incentive-based carbon reducing or sequestering programs;

(c) Identify roles public and private entities may serve in connecting landowners to incentive-based carbon reducing or sequestering programs;

(d) Identify any challenges emerging from an expanded use of carbon markets, including impacts to workforce and infrastructure availability, and make recommendations to avoid these impacts; and

(e) Explore how existing federal, state, and private programs may be leveraged, coordinated, and supplemented to achieve carbon beneficial results in natural and working lands and identify roadblocks to achieve better scalability.

(6) This section expires January 1, 2023.

(2) The advisory group created by this section has the following duties:

(a) To advise the state on participation in the United States climate alliance natural and working lands initiative;

(b) To advise the state on inventory methods under section 2 of this act;

(c) To advise the state on strategies to effectively advance and accelerate carbon sequestration on natural and working lands throughout the state, including in forest products, while maintaining and enhancing the forest products industry; and

(d) To provide expertise and information related to the implementation of sections 2 and 3 of this act.

(3)(a) To the extent feasible, members of the advisory group must be composed of interests that reflect the diverse interests and expertise involved on the subject of carbon sequestration on natural and working lands as those lands are defined by this act. This advisory group must be composed of the following representatives or a representative of an association that represents such an entity:

(i) Two representatives of the department, including proprietary management;

(ii) One invited representative of a tribal government that manages working forestland;

(iii) An environmental nongovernment organization;

(iv) A large private forestland owner;

(v) A small forestland owner;

(vi) The consortium for research on renewable industrial materials;

(vii) The University of Washington's center for international trade in forest products;

(viii) A forest product manufacturer;

(ix) The shellfish industry;

(x) A conservation nongovernment organization that owns and manages natural and working lands;

(xi) A federal government agency that manages natural and working lands;

(xii) A local government agency that manages natural and working lands; and

(xiii) The governor's office.

(b) The natural and working lands carbon sequestration advisory group established in this section constitutes a class one group under RCW 43.03.220.

(c) The office of the governor and the department may add additional members to the advisory group as deemed beneficial for the discussion around working and natural land uses not represented in the enumerated members provided in this section. The office of the governor and the department must strive to maintain a balance of representation on the advisory group and advisory group members must approve additional members by a majority vote.

(4) The office of the governor and the department must jointly submit recommendations resulting from the natural and working lands carbon sequestration advisory group to the legislature by December 1, 2020.

(5) This section expires January 1, 2023.

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