SB 6091-S.E - DIGEST |
(DIGEST AS ENACTED) |
Addresses the availability of water to support development. |
Requires the department of ecology to: (1) Establish watershed restoration and enhancement committees in certain water resource inventory areas; |
(2) Prepare and adopt a watershed restoration and enhancement plan for certain watersheds in collaboration with the committee; and |
(3) Initiate two pilot projects to measure water use from all new groundwater withdrawals for domestic purposes exempt from permitting. |
Creates the joint legislative task force on water resource mitigation to: (1) Review the treatment of surface water and groundwater appropriations as they relate to instream flows and fish habitat; |
(2) Develop and recommend a mitigation sequencing process and scoring system to address appropriations; and |
(3) Review the state supreme court decision in Foster v. Department of Ecology. |
Declares an intent to appropriate three hundred million dollars for projects to achieve the goals of this act. |
Creates the watershed restoration and enhancement account, the watershed restoration and enhancement taxable bond account, and the watershed restoration and enhancement bond account. |