WSR 97-08-028
PROCLAMATION
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
[March 19, 1997]
The severe storm causing extensive flooding due to high rain fall amounts
and mountain snow melt began on March 18, 1997, is continuing to threaten
citizens and property in Washington State;
WHEREAS, severe flooding is causing extensive damage to public property,
private property and infrastructure in Cowlitz, Ferry, King, Lincoln,
Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whatcom, and Whitman counties;
NOW THEREFORE, I, GARY LOCKE, Governor of the state of Washington, as a
result of the aforementioned situation and under RCW 43.06 and 38.52, do
hereby amend the proclamation of March 18, 1997, and further proclaim
that a State of Emergency exists in Cowlitz, Ferry, King, Lincoln, Pend
Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Whatcom, and Whitman counties and authorize
execution of the Washington State Comprehensive Emergency Management
Plan.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the state of
Washington to be affixed at Olympia, this nineteenth day of March, A.D., nineteen
hundred and ninety-seven.
Gary Locke
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Governor of Washington
BY THE GOVERNOR
Ralph Munro
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Secretary of State