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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 1166
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AS
AMENDED BY THE SENATE
Passed
Legislature - 2002 Regular Session
State
of Washington 57th Legislature 2001 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 02/26/2001. Referred to Committee on .
Allowing state agencies to sponsor salmon recovery
projects.
AN
ACT Relating to entities eligible to be project sponsors for salmon recovery
funding board grants; and amending RCW 77.85.010.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
77.85.010 and 2000 c 107 s 92 are each amended to read as follows:
The
definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context
clearly requires otherwise.
(1)
"Adaptive management" means reliance on scientific methods to test the
results of actions taken so that the management and related policy can be
changed promptly and appropriately.
(2)
"Critical pathways methodology" means a project scheduling and
management process for examining interactions between habitat projects and salmonid
species, prioritizing habitat projects, and assuring positive benefits from
habitat projects.
(3)
"Habitat project list" is the list of projects resulting from the
critical pathways methodology under RCW 77.85.060(2). Each project on the list
must have a written agreement from the landowner on whose land the project will
be implemented. Projects include habitat restoration projects, habitat
protection projects, habitat projects that improve water quality, habitat
projects that protect water quality, habitat-related mitigation projects, and
habitat project maintenance and monitoring activities.
(4)
"Habitat work schedule" means those projects from the habitat project
list that will be implemented during the current funding cycle. The schedule
shall also include a list of the entities and individuals implementing
projects, the start date, duration, estimated date of completion, estimated
cost, and funding sources for the projects.
(5)
"Limiting factors" means conditions that limit the ability of habitat
to fully sustain populations of salmon. These factors are primarily fish
passage barriers and degraded estuarine areas, riparian corridors, stream
channels, and wetlands.
(6)
"Project sponsor" is a county, city, special district, tribal
government, state agency, a combination of such governments through
interlocal or interagency agreements ((provided under chapter 39.34
RCW)), a nonprofit organization, regional fisheries enhancement group,
or one or more private citizens. A project sponsored by a state agency may
be funded by the board only if it is included on the habitat project list
submitted by the lead entity for that area and the state agency has a local
partner that would otherwise qualify as a project sponsor.
(7)
"Salmon" includes all species of the family Salmonidae which are
capable of self-sustaining, natural production.
(8)
"Salmon recovery plan" means a state plan developed in response to a
proposed or actual listing under the federal endangered species act that
addresses limiting factors including, but not limited to harvest, hatchery,
hydropower, habitat, and other factors of decline.
(9)
"Tribe" or "tribes" means federally recognized Indian
tribes.
(10)
"WRIA" means a water resource inventory area established in chapter
173-500 WAC as it existed on January 1, 1997.
(11)
"Owner" means the person holding title to the land or the person
under contract with the owner to lease or manage the legal owner's property.
Passed the House March 9, 2002.
Passed the Senate March 5, 2002.
Approved by the Governor
March 28, 2002.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State March 28, 2002.
