HB 1376.E - DIGEST

(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/19/03)

Exempts rain barrels, cisterns, and other similar facilities for capturing runoff from roofs, paved areas, and other hard surfaces on a single residential, commercial, or industrial property or public facility when the: (1) Total amount of water storage does not exceed ten thousand gallons; and

(2) Water stored is intended to be put to beneficial use.

Declares that this act does not apply to facilities to recapture and reuse return flow from irrigation operations serving a single farm under an existing water right as long as the acreage irrigated is not increased beyond the acreage allowed to be irrigated under the water right that applies to the property.

Declares that the development and use of a facility described in RCW 90.03.370(8) or of a small irrigation impoundment, as defined in RCW 90.03.370(9), does not constitute a change or amendment for the purposes of this act.