CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                  SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5155

                   Chapter 333, Laws of 1995

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

   HYDRAULIC PERMIT EXEMPTIONS FROM SHORELINE MANAGEMENT ACT

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/23/95

Passed by the Senate March 14, 1995   YEAS 49   NAYS 0 JOEL PRITCHARD President of the Senate Passed by the House April 21, 1995   YEAS 96   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5155 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives

MARTY BROWN                             Secretary

Approved May 11, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                        May 11, 1995 - 1:25 p.m.

MIKE LOWRY Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5155

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             Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington      54th Legislature     1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ecology & Parks (originally sponsored by Senators Hargrove, Owen, Snyder, Hochstatter, A. Anderson and Rasmussen)

Read first time 02/06/95.

Exempting from the shoreline management act certain projects that have been granted hydraulic permits.

    AN ACT Relating to hydraulic permit exemptions from the shoreline management act; and adding a new section to chapter 90.58 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 90.58 RCW to read as follows:

    A public or private project that is designed to improve fish or wildlife habitat or fish passage shall be exempt from the substantial development permit requirements of this chapter when all of the following apply:

    (1) The project has been approved by the department of fish and wildlife;

    (2) The project has received hydraulic project approval by the department of fish and wildlife pursuant to chapter 75.20 RCW; and

    (3) The local government has determined that the project is substantially consistent with the local shoreline master program.  The local government shall make such determination in a timely manner and provide it by letter to the project proponent.

    Passed the Senate March 14, 1995.

    Passed the House April 21, 1995.

Approved by the Governor May 11, 1995.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 11, 1995.