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                          HOUSE BILL 1946

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State of Washington      57th Legislature     2001 Regular Session

By Representative Mulliken

Read first time 02/09/2001.  Referred to Committee on Local Government & Housing.

Providing a shoreline management master program development or amendment schedule.

    AN ACT Relating to modifying shoreline master program timelines; and amending RCW 90.58.080.

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

    Sec. 1.  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 and amended as necessary for compliance with the guidelines and submitted to the department for approval within twenty-four months after the adoption of guidelines as provided in RCW 90.58.060.

(2) Consistent with the priority salmon recovery regions identified in the statewide strategy to recover salmon 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 and amended as necessary for compliance with the guidelines and submitted to the department for approval within forty-eight 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 and amended as necessary for compliance with the guidelines and submitted to the department for approval within sixty 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 and amended as necessary for compliance with the guidelines and submitted to the department for approval within seventy-two months after the adoption of guideline amendments as provided in RCW 90.58.060.

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