HB 2902-S - DIGEST
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Requires the department of fish and wildlife, using appropriated funds and amounts appropriated on an ongoing basis each year thereafter, to provide funding for fish barrier removal projects in a manner determined by the fish passage barrier removal board.

Requires the board, for investments in Puget Sound watersheds, to coordinate with the Puget Sound partnership to capture the priorities embodied in their action agenda and set forth by any relevant citizen salmon recovery advisory bodies formed for purposes of the recovery of federally listed endangered species.

Makes an appropriation from the state general fund to the department of fish and wildlife for fish passage barrier removal projects.

Creates the fish passage barrier removal account.