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                SECOND SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5289

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Fraser, Morton, Jacobsen, Winsley, Rasmussen, Patterson, Spanel, Haugen, Eide, Shin, Costa, Fairley, Heavey, Prentice, Gardner, Franklin, Kohl‑Welles, Thibaudeau and Kline; by request of Governor Locke)

Read first time 03/08/1999.

Changing laws concerning water resources.

    AN ACT Relating to water resource management and facilitating fishery protection and recovery; amending RCW 90.58.080; and adding a new section to chapter 90.03 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 90.03 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) The department shall accord priority to the processing of applications for transfers and changes in water rights.

    (2) The department in its discretion may process applications for transfers or changes regarding water uses in a basin independently of the order of processing or priority placed upon processing applications for new withdrawals within the same basin, and independently of the order of processing or priority placed upon any applications regarding water use in other basins.

    Sec. 2.  RCW 90.58.080 and 1995 c 347 s 305 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) Local governments shall develop or amend((, within twenty-four months after the adoption of guidelines as provided in RCW 90.58.060,)) a master program for regulation of uses of the shorelines of the state consistent with the required elements of the guidelines adopted by the department.  Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, master programs shall be reviewed for compliance with the guidelines and adopted or amended as necessary within twenty-four months after the adoption of guidelines as provided in RCW 90.58.060.

(2) Consistent with the priority salmon recovery regions and WRIA's map, as defined in the state-wide strategy to recover salmon volume 1, page V.95, and population growth data provided by the office of financial management, the following master program development or amendment schedule applies for guidelines adopted by the department before December 31, 2000:

(a) For King, Snohomish, Pierce, Clark, and Kitsap counties and the cities and towns therein with shorelines of the state, master programs shall be reviewed for compliance with the guidelines and adopted or amended as necessary within thirty-six months after the adoption of guidelines as provided in RCW 90.58.060;

(b) For Thurston, Whatcom, Benton, Yakima, Skagit, Cowlitz, Clallam, Chelan, Mason, Lewis, Jefferson, and Okanogan counties and the cities and towns therein with shorelines of the state, master programs shall be reviewed for compliance with the guidelines and adopted or amended as necessary within forty-eight months after the adoption of guidelines as provided in RCW 90.58.060;

(c) For all other counties, cities, and towns with shorelines of the state, master programs shall be reviewed for compliance with the guidelines and adopted or amended as necessary within sixty months after the adoption of guidelines amendments as provided in RCW 90.58.060.

(3) Local governments failing to meet the schedule provided in subsection (2) of this section shall not be eligible for grant moneys from the department pursuant to implementation of this section.

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