BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

HB 1611: Cultivation of shellfish

Ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish.

Summary

Directs the Department of Ecology (Ecology), by May 15, 2019, to authorize the use of imidacloprid to control infestations of burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor for the 2019 treatment season.
Directs Ecology, by April 15, 2020, to issue a national Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the use of pesticides to control infestations of burrowing shrimp in association with the cultivation of shellfish.
Transfers the authority of Ecology, with regard to the regulation of pesticides used to control burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor, to the Department of Agriculture (WSDA), effective July 1, 2020.
Appropriates $500,000 from the State General Fund to Ecology for the purpose of conducting a study on the use of imidacloprid for the control of burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor.
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the State Toxics Account to the WSDA for the purposes of studying the impacts of the use of imidacloprid as a means to control burrowing shrimp, and to continue efforts to employ an accepted integrated pest management approach to burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to ensuring the safe and productive cultivation of shellfish;

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

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