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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 1098
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State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By House Committee on Natural Resources (originally sponsored by Representatives Haugen, S. Wilson, Jacobsen and Beck)
Read first time 3/6/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to exchanges of tidelands on the Olympic peninsula; and creating a new section.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) The state parks and recreation commission shall enter into an agreement with the federal government to exchange all but the mineral rights on state-owned tidelands included in the seashore conservation area described in RCW 43.51.650 that are adjacent to or within the Olympic National Park, exclusive of any tidelands within the boundaries of any Indian reservation, for the parcel of land known as the Keystone Spit which is located south of Admiralty Inlet and including a portion of Crockett Lake on Whidbey Island, if the federal government should acquire the parcel known as Keystone Spit.
(2)(a) The provision relating to equal value exchange of RCW 43.51.210 is waived for purposes of this section.
(b) The voting requirements under RCW 43.51.210 for land exchanges are waived for purposes of this section.
(3) Any conveyance document between the state and the federal government relating to the land exchange in subsection (1) of this section shall contain the provisions set forth in RCW 43.51.675 and P.L. 99-635 and shall state that the tidelands shall continue to be open to fishing and to the taking of shellfish in conformity with the laws and rules of the state of Washington.