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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1993

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1988 Regular Session

By Representatives Rayburn and Lewis

Read first time 2/3/88 and referred to Committee on Agriculture & Rural Development.

AN ACT Relating to emergency agricultural water supply facilities; and amending RCW 43.83B.210.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 3, chapter 295, Laws of 1975 1st ex. sess. as last amended by section 4, chapter 343, Laws of 1987 and RCW 43.83B.210 are each amended to read as follows:

          The department of ecology is authorized to make loans or grants or combinations thereof to eligible public bodies as defined in RCW 43.83B.050 for rehabilitation or betterment of agricultural water supply facilities, and/or construction of agricultural water supply facilities required to develop new irrigated lands or, when required because of emergency drought conditions, to provide water to previously irrigated lands.  The department of ecology may make such loans or grants or combinations thereof as matching funds in any case where federal, local, or other funds have been made available on a matching basis.  A loan or combination loan and grant shall not exceed fifty percent of the approved eligible project costs for any single proposed project:  PROVIDED, That for purposes authorized by RCW 43.83B.300, 43.83B.310, and 43.83B.385 the department of ecology may make a loan up to ninety percent of the total eligible project cost or combination loan and grant up to one hundred percent of the total single project cost and the grant portion for any single project shall not exceed ((fifteen)) forty percent of the total single project cost.  Any grant or grant portion of a combination loan and grant for any single proposed project shall not exceed fifteen percent of the eligible project costs:  PROVIDED, That the fifteen percent limitation established herein shall not be applicable to project commitments which the director or deputy director of the state department of ecology made to the bureau of reclamation of the United States department of interior for providing state funding at thirty-five percent of project costs during the period between August 1, 1974, and June 30, 1975.

          The department of social and health services is authorized to make grants of up to forty percent of the cost of construction of any eligible project necessitated by the 1977 drought conditions.  Such grants may be made only to public bodies as defined in RCW 43.83B.050 for municipal and industrial water supply and distribution facilities.