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SENATE BILL 6850
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session
By Senators T. Sheldon, Hargrove, Snyder and Rasmussen
Read first time 02/12/2000. Referred to Committee on Natural Resources, Parks & Recreation.
AN ACT Relating to rules concerning eligibility to purchase state and local government timber sales; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The legislature finds that no agency of government currently has authority to modify current state rules in chapter 240-15 WAC. In the absence of rule-making authority, the legislature adopts the following interim policy for eligibility to purchase state and local government timber sales:
(a) Processing facilities that purchased timber from state and local government lands for more than five years prior to January 1, 2000, may continue to do so at their historic levels, notwithstanding any changes in their ownership after January 1, 2000, if their owners enter into agreements with the state department of revenue to ensure that timber from state and local government lands purchased for those facilities is not processed by ineligible facilities; and
(b) Processing facilities eligible to purchase unprocessed timber from federal land within a sourcing area approved by the United States forest service may purchase unprocessed timber from state and local government lands within the boundaries of their federally approved sourcing area, if their owners enter into agreements with the state department of revenue to ensure that the timber from state and local government lands purchased for those facilities is not processed by ineligible facilities.
(2) The governor shall submit this modified policy to the United States secretary of commerce for approval under the forest resources conservation and shortage recovery act (16 U.S.C. Sec. 620).
(3) The interim policy under this section applies only to timber sales made by a state agency or local government after the United States secretary of commerce approves or is deemed to have approved the policy under the forest resources conservation and shortage recovery act (16 U.S.C. Sec. 620), and until the legislature acts to adopt a permanent policy relating to the eligibility to purchase state and local government timber, or until June 30, 2001, whichever occurs earlier.
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