1864-S AMH ORCU MUNN 432

SHB 1864 - H AMD 424

By Representative Orcutt

FAILED 04/16/2013

     On page 73, after line 30, insert the following:

    "NEW SECTION. Sec. 614.  The department of transportation shall expend any savings on a project on the correction of fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams affected by the project.  If there are no fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams affected by the project, the department of transportation shall expend any savings on a project on the correction of fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams in the same water resource inventory area as the project.  If there are no fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams in the same water resource inventory area as the project, the department of transportation shall expend any savings on a project in the Puget Sound region on the correction of fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams within the Puget Sound region, any savings on a project on the Olympic peninsula on the correction of fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams on the Olympic peninsula, and any savings on a project in a particular basin that is not located in the Puget Sound region or on the Olympic peninsula on the correction of fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams within that basin."

EFFECT: Requires savings on a project to be spent on the correction of fish-passage barriers on rivers or streams affected by the project, in the same water resource inventory area, or in the same basin, in that order of priority, unless the basin is located in the Puget Sound region or on the Olympic Peninsula in which case the savings must be spent in the respective area in which it is located.  

FISCAL IMPACT: No net change to appropriated levels.

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