BILL · 2003–04 SESSION

HB 2393: Watershed health

Providing for the protection of the health of watersheds.

Summary

Requires an Instream Flow Committee to be established to provide guidance regarding instream flows and programs and to conduct certain reviews.
Provides standards for instream flows and requires implementing rules.
Requires the Department of Ecology (DOE) to establish instream flows by rule for all mainstem streams and their key tributaries in the state and establishes deadlines for doing so.
Provides criteria for and requires the DOE to adopt rules establishing requirements for Streamflow Implementation Performance Programs (SIPPs).
Requires SIPPs for all of the watersheds of the state and establishes deadlines for doing so.
Requires the DOE and the Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) to approve or disapprove SIPPs and provides for appeals.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to watershed health;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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