CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

              ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1056

                   Chapter 371, Laws of 1997

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

ELK RIVER NATURAL AREA PRESERVE--MANAGEMENT

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/27/97

Passed by the House April 21, 1997   Yeas 88   Nays 10              CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 14, 1997   Yeas 43   Nays 5

CERTIFICATE I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1056  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

BRAD OWEN President of the Senate

TIMOTHY A. MARTIN                           Chief Clerk

Approved May 15, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                        May 15, 1997 - 4:21 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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               ENGROSSED SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1056

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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 Hatfield, Pennington, Doumit, Mielke, Johnson, Buck, Kessler, Sheldon, Mastin, Grant, Thompson, DeBolt, Quall, Boldt and Linville)

Read first time 02/21/97.

Transferring the status of the Elk River Preserve from a natural area preserve to a natural resources conservation area.      

    AN ACT Relating to natural area preserves; and adding a new section to chapter 79.71 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 79.71 RCW to read as follows:

    The property currently designated as the Elk river natural area preserve is transferred from management under chapter 79.70 RCW as a natural area preserve to management under chapter 79.71 RCW as a natural resources conservation area.  The legislature finds that hunting is a suitable low-impact public use within the Elk river natural resources conservation area.  The department of natural resources shall incorporate this legislative direction into the management plan developed for the Elk river natural resources conservation area.  The department shall work with the department of fish and wildlife to identify hunting opportunities compatible with the area's conservation purposes.

    Passed the House April 21, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 14, 1997.

Approved by the Governor May 15, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 15, 1997.