CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

Passed by the House April 24, 1997   Yeas 97   Nays 0 Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 9, 1997   Yeas 46   Nays 0

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

President of the Senate

Chief Clerk

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1485

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

                     AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Linville, Buck, Hatfield, Chandler, Cooper, Sump, Regala, Butler, Anderson, Doumit, Morris, Sheldon, Tokuda, Kessler, Scott, Blalock and Dickerson)

Read first time 02/21/97.

Requiring the department of fish and wildlife to report to the legislature regarding salmon harvests.  

    AN ACT Relating to salmon harvest reporting; and adding a new section to chapter 75.08 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 75.08 RCW to read as follows:

    Beginning September 1, 1998, and each September 1st thereafter, the department shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature identifying the total salmon and steelhead harvest of the preceding season.  This report shall include the final commercial harvests and recreational harvests.  At a minimum, the report shall clearly identify:

    (1)  The total treaty tribal and nontribal harvests by species and by management unit;

    (2) Where and why the nontribal harvest does not meet the full allocation allowed under United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (1974) (Boldt I) including a summary of the key policies within the management plan that result in a less than full nontribal allocation; and

    (3) The location and quantity of salmon and steelhead harvested under the wastage provisions of United States v. Washington, 384 F. Supp. 312 (1974).

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