BILL · 2023–24 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5517

SB 5517: Water resource mitigation

Enacting recommendations from the joint legislative task force on water resource mitigation.

Summary

Establishes that hydraulic continuity between groundwater and a surface water source with unmet minimum flows or that is closed to further appropriation is not, in and of itself, a basis on which to deny an application to withdraw groundwater.
Requires the Department of Ecology (Ecology) to adopt a groundwater modeling rule.
Allows Ecology to authorize a groundwater withdrawal in reliance upon water resource mitigation measures under a specific mitigation sequence.
Requires municipal water suppliers to meet water conservation requirements to rely on the mitigation sequence for a groundwater withdrawal.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to enacting recommendations from the joint legislative task force on water resource mitigation;

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

Jan 12, 2024Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5517)
Jan 12, 2024Referred to Ways & Means.
Jan 11, 2024And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5517)
Jan 11, 2024Minority; do not pass. (SSB 5517)
Jan 11, 2024AWNP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5517)
Jan 11, 2024AWNP - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
Jan 11, 2024Minority; do not pass.
Jan 11, 2024And refer to Ways & Means.
Jan 8, 2024By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
Jan 23, 2023First reading, referred to Agriculture, Water, Natural Resources & Parks.

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

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