SB 5027-S2 - DIGEST

(AS OF SENATE 2ND READING 3/13/03)

Declares and reaffirms that a core principle embodied in chapter 90.82 RCW is that state agencies must work cooperatively with local citizens in a process of planning for future uses of water by giving local citizens and the governments closest to them the utmost opportunity in determining the future allocation and management of water in the WRIA or WRIAs being planned.

Finds that this process of local planning must have all the tools necessary to accomplish this task and that it is essential for the legislature to provide a clear statutory process for implementation so that the locally developed plan will be the adopted and implemented plan to the greatest extent possible.

Provides that the act shall be null and void if appropriations are not approved.