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WA Rev Code § 90.71.360 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.360 - Limitations on authority.

RCW 90.71.360 Limitations on authority.(1) The partnership shall not have regulatory authority nor authority to transfer the responsibility for, or implementation of, any state regulatory program, unless otherwise specifically authorized by the legislature.(2) The action agenda may not create a legally enforceable duty to review or approve permits, or to adopt plans or regulations. The action agenda may not authorize the adoption of rules under chapter 34.05 RCW creating a legally enforceable duty applicable to the review or approval of permits or to the adoption of plans or regulations. No action of the partnership may alter the forest practices rules adopted pursuant to chapter 76.09 RCW, or any associated habitat conservation plan. Any changes in forest practices identified by the processes established in this chapter as necessary to fully recover the health of Puget Sound by 2020 may only be realized through the processes established in RCW 76.09.370 and other designated processes established in Title 76 RCW. Nothing in this subsection or subsection (1) of this section limits the accountability provisions of this chapter.(3) Nothing in this chapter limits or alters the existing legal authority of local governments, nor does it create a legally enforceable duty upon local governments. When a local government proposes to take an action inconsistent with the action agenda, it shall inform the council and identify the reasons for taking the action. If a local government chooses to take an action inconsistent with the action agenda or chooses not to take action required by the action agenda, it will be subject to the accountability measures in this chapter which can be used at the discretion of the council.[ 2007 c 341 § 18.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.380 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.380 - Assessment of basin-wide restoration progress.

RCW 90.71.380 Assessment of basin-wide restoration progress.By December 1, 2010, and subject to available funding, the Washington academy of sciences shall conduct an assessment of basin-wide restoration progress. The assessment shall include, but not be limited to, a determination of the extent to which implementation of the action agenda is making progress toward the action agenda goals, and a determination of whether the environmental indicators and benchmarks included in the action agenda accurately measure and reflect progress toward the action agenda goals.[ 2007 c 341 § 20.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.390 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.390 - Performance audits of the partnership.

RCW 90.71.390 Performance audits of the partnership.(1) The joint legislative audit and review committee shall conduct two performance audits of the partnership, with the first audit to be completed by December 1, 2011, and the second to be completed by December 1, 2016.(2) The audit shall include but not be limited to:(a) A determination of the extent to which funds expended by the partnership or provided in biennial budget acts expressly for implementing the action agenda have contributed toward meeting the scientific benchmarks and the recovery goals of the action agenda;(b) A determination of the efficiency and effectiveness of the partnership's oversight of action agenda implementation, based upon the achievement of the objectives as measured by the established environmental indicators and benchmarks; and(c) Any recommendations for improvements in the partnership's performance and structure, and to provide accountability for action agenda results by action entities.(3) The partnership may use the audits as the basis for developing changes to the action agenda, and may submit any recommendations requiring legislative policy or budgetary action to the governor and to the appropriate committees of the senate and house of representatives.[ 2007 c 341 § 21.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.400 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.400 - Puget Sound recovery account.

RCW 90.71.400 Puget Sound recovery account.The Puget Sound recovery account is created in the state treasury. To the account shall be deposited such funds as the legislature directs or appropriates to the account. Federal grants, gifts, or other financial assistance received by the Puget Sound partnership and other state agencies from nonstate sources for the specific purpose of recovering Puget Sound may be deposited into the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account may be used for the protection and recovery of Puget Sound.[ 2007 c 341 § 23.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.410 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.410 - Lake Whatcom phosphorus loading demonstration program.

RCW 90.71.410 Lake Whatcom phosphorus loading demonstration program.(1) The partnership shall assist the city of Bellingham and Whatcom county to implement a demonstration program regarding phosphorus loading into Lake Whatcom. The partnership shall assist the city and county to secure funding from federal and nongovernmental sources and work to secure funding commitments from the city and county as well. The demonstration program must be implemented by the city and the county and include elements for prevention, education, compliance, and monitoring to reduce to a minimum the introduction of phosphorus-bearing materials into Lake Whatcom. The partnership shall share the results of this program with other jurisdictions in Puget Sound seeking to reduce phosphorus loading.(2) Any grant made under this section must be matched by at least an equal amount from nonstate sources.[ 2009 c 48 § 2.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—2009 c 48: "(1) The legislature finds that:(a) The Puget Sound 2020 action agenda identifies water pollution as a primary threat to the health of Puget Sound and restoration of polluted waters as a top priority;(b) Lake Whatcom is the drinking water reservoir for the city of Bellingham and the Lake Whatcom watershed provides fresh drinking water to one-half the population of Whatcom county;(c) Whatcom creek flows out of Lake Whatcom and directly into Bellingham Bay which is the subject of a multiagency clean-up effort, the Bellingham Bay demonstration pilot project;(d) The Puget Sound 2020 action agenda's area profile for Whatcom county identifies phosphorous pollution of Lake Whatcom as a key threat;(e) Silver Beach creek is a major tributary to Lake Whatcom and its watershed is shared by the city of Bellingham and Whatcom county;(f) Two decades of monitoring has shown that Silver Beach creek has some of the highest phosphorus loading of Lake Whatcom tributaries;(g) Implementation of the recently completed watershed management plan and water cleanup plan for Lake Whatcom is identified as a priority strategy in the Puget Sound 2020 action agenda's priorities for Whatcom county; and(h) Implementation of operations and management plans to manage on-site sewage systems around Lake Whatcom is identified as a key restoration strategy in Whatcom county.(2) The legislature intends by this act to assist the city of Bellingham and Whatcom county in implementing a demonstration program to reduce phosphorus loading in the Lake Whatcom and Whatcom creek watershed and to share the lessons learned from this program with other jurisdictions in the Puget Sound basin working to reduce phosphorus loading." [ 2009 c 48 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.420 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.420 - Report to the legislature.

RCW 90.71.420 Report to the legislature.Nothing in this chapter may be construed to relieve the partnership of the need to provide a written report to the legislature each biennium pursuant to RCW 90.71.370(3), which must also include references to ongoing science-related activities and monitoring efforts that inform the findings of the report.[ 2017 c 54 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.430 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.430 - Environmental justice obligations of the Puget Sound partnership.

RCW 90.71.430 Environmental justice obligations of the Puget Sound partnership.The partnership must apply and comply with the substantive and procedural requirements of chapter 70A.02 RCW.[ 2021 c 314 § 10.]NOTES:Conflict with federal requirements—2021 c 314: See note following RCW 70A.02.005.
WA Rev Code § 90.71.904 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.904 - Transfer of powers, duties, and functions—References to chair of the Puget Sound action team.

RCW 90.71.904 Transfer of powers, duties, and functions—References to chair of the Puget Sound action team.(1) The Puget Sound action team is hereby abolished and its powers, duties, and functions are hereby transferred to the Puget Sound partnership as consistent with this chapter. All references to the chair or the Puget Sound action team in the Revised Code of Washington shall be construed to mean the executive director or the Puget Sound partnership.(2)(a) All employees of the Puget Sound action team are transferred to the jurisdiction of the Puget Sound partnership.(b) All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, papers, or written material in the possession of the Puget Sound action team shall be delivered to the custody of the Puget Sound partnership. All cabinets, furniture, office equipment, motor vehicles, and other tangible property employed by the Puget Sound action team shall be made available to the Puget Sound partnership. All funds, credits, or other assets held by the Puget Sound action team shall be assigned to the Puget Sound partnership.(c) Any appropriations made to the Puget Sound action team shall, on July 1, 2007, be transferred and credited to the Puget Sound partnership.(d) If any question arises as to the transfer of any personnel, funds, books, documents, records, papers, files, equipment, or other tangible property used or held in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties and functions transferred, the director of financial management shall make a determination as to the proper allocation and certify the same to the state agencies concerned.(3) All rules and all pending business before the Puget Sound action team shall be continued and acted upon by the Puget Sound partnership. All existing contracts and obligations shall remain in full force and shall be performed by the Puget Sound partnership.(4) The transfer of the powers, duties, functions, and personnel of the Puget Sound action team shall not affect the validity of any act performed before July 1, 2007.(5) If apportionments of budgeted funds are required because of the transfers directed by this section, the director of financial management shall certify the apportionments to the agencies affected, the state auditor, and the state treasurer. Each of these shall make the appropriate transfer and adjustments in funds and appropriation accounts and equipment records in accordance with the certification.(6) Nothing contained in this section may be construed to alter any existing collective bargaining unit or the provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement until the agreement has expired or until the bargaining unit has been modified by action of the public employment relations commission as provided by law.[ 2007 c 341 § 41.]
WA Rev Code § 90.71.907 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.71 - Puget Sound Water Quality Protection.|90.71.907 - Effective date—2007 c 341.

RCW 90.71.907 Effective date—2007 c 341.This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect July 1, 2007.[ 2007 c 341 § 70.]
WA Rev Code § 90.72.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.020 - Shellfish tidelands.

RCW 90.72.020 Shellfish tidelands.For purposes of this chapter, "shellfish tidelands" means all saltwater tidelands on which shellfish are grown or harvested for human consumption.[ 1985 c 417 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 90.72.045 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.045 - Shellfish protection districts—Programs required after closure or downgrading of growing area classification—Annual report.

RCW 90.72.045 Shellfish protection districts—Programs required after closure or downgrading of growing area classification—Annual report.The county legislative authority shall create a shellfish protection district and establish a shellfish protection program developed under RCW 90.72.030 or an equivalent program to address the causes or suspected causes of pollution within one hundred eighty days after the department of health, because of water quality degradation due to ongoing nonpoint sources of pollution has closed or downgraded the classification of a recreational or commercial shellfish growing area within the boundaries of the county. The county legislative authority shall initiate implementation of the shellfish protection program within sixty days after it is established.A copy of the program must be provided to the departments of health, ecology, and agriculture. An agency that has regulatory authority for any of the sources of nonpoint pollution covered by the program shall cooperate with the county in its implementation. The county legislative authority shall submit a written report to the department of health annually that describes the status and progress of the program. If rates or fees are collected under RCW 90.72.070 for implementation of the shellfish protection district program, the annual report shall provide sufficient detail of the expenditure of the revenue collected to ensure compliance with RCW 90.72.070.[ 2008 c 250 § 2; 2007 c 150 § 2; 1992 c 100 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—1992 c 100: See note following RCW 90.72.030.
WA Rev Code § 90.72.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.060 - Decisions addressing conflicting uses—Integration of the state environmental policy act and county ordinances and resolutions with programs.

RCW 90.72.060 Decisions addressing conflicting uses—Integration of the state environmental policy act and county ordinances and resolutions with programs.Whenever a governmental entity makes a decision which addresses a matter in which there is a conflict between (1) on the one hand, a proposed development, proposed change in land use controls, or proposed change in the provision of utility services; and (2) on the other hand, the long-term use of an area for the growing or harvesting of shellfish, which area is within the boundaries of a shellfish protection district, then the governmental entity making the decision must observe the requirements of chapter 43.21C RCW and county ordinances or resolutions integrating the state environmental policy act of 1971 into the various programs under county jurisdiction.[ 1985 c 417 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 90.72.065 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.065 - Plans to control pollution effects of animal waste—Contracts with conservation districts.

RCW 90.72.065 Plans to control pollution effects of animal waste—Contracts with conservation districts.Within available funding and as specified in the shellfish protection program, counties creating shellfish protection districts shall contract with conservation districts to draft plans with landowners to control pollution effects of animal waste.[ 1992 c 100 § 5.]NOTES:Findings—1992 c 100: See note following RCW 90.72.030.
WA Rev Code § 90.72.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.070 - Program financing—Activities not subject to fees, rates, or charges—Collection of charges or rates.

RCW 90.72.070 Program financing—Activities not subject to fees, rates, or charges—Collection of charges or rates.The county legislative authority establishing a shellfish protection district may finance the protection program through (1) county tax revenues, (2) reasonable inspection fees and similar fees for services provided, (3) reasonable charges or rates specified in its protection program, or (4) federal, state, or private grants. A dairy animal feeding operation with a certified dairy nutrient management plan as required in chapter 90.64 RCW and any other commercial agricultural operation on agricultural lands as defined in RCW 36.70A.030 shall be subject to fees, rates, or charges by a shellfish protection district of no more than five hundred dollars in a calendar year. Facilities permitted and assessed fees for wastewater discharge under the national pollutant discharge elimination system shall not be subject to fees, rates, or charges for wastewater discharge by a shellfish protection district. Lands classified as forestland under chapter 84.33 RCW and timberland under chapter 84.34 RCW shall not be subject to fees, rates, or charges by a shellfish protection district. Counties may collect charges or rates in the manner determined by the county legislative authority.[ 2008 c 250 § 3; 1992 c 100 § 6; 1985 c 417 § 7.]NOTES:Findings—1992 c 100: See note following RCW 90.72.030.
WA Rev Code § 90.72.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.080 - State water quality financial assistance—Priority to counties with shellfish protection districts.

RCW 90.72.080 State water quality financial assistance—Priority to counties with shellfish protection districts.Counties that have formed shellfish protection districts shall receive high priority for state water quality financial assistance to implement shellfish protection programs, including grants and loans provided under RCW 43.83.350 , chapters *70.146 and 90.50A RCW.[ 2015 1st sp.s. c 4 § 57; 1992 c 100 § 7.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: Chapter 70.146 RCW was recodified as chapter 70A.135 RCW pursuant to 2020 c 20 § 2046.Findings—1992 c 100: See note following RCW 90.72.030.
WA Rev Code § 90.72.900 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.72 - Shellfish Protection Districts.|90.72.900 - Certain authority of counties not affected by chapter.

RCW 90.72.900 Certain authority of counties not affected by chapter.This chapter shall not be considered as diminishing or affecting the authority of a county to adopt and enforce programs or controls, within all or a portion of the county, to deal with nonpoint pollution.[ 1985 c 417 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 90.74.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment|Chapter 90.74 - Aquatic Resources Mitigation.|90.74.005 - Findings—Intent.

RCW 90.74.005 Findings—Intent.(1) The legislature finds that:(a) The state lacks a clear policy relating to the mitigation of wetlands and aquatic habitat for infrastructure development;(b) Regulatory agencies have generally required project proponents to use compensatory mitigation only at the site of the project's impacts and to mitigate narrowly for the habitat or biological functions impacted by a project;(c) This practice of considering traditional on-site, in-kind mitigation may provide fewer environmental benefits when compared to innovative mitigation proposals that provide benefits in advance of a project's planned impacts and that restore functions or habitat other than those impacted at a project site;(d) Regulatory decisions on development proposals that attempt to incorporate innovative mitigation measures take an unreasonably long period of time and are subject to a great deal of uncertainty and additional expenses; and(e) Greater environmental benefits may be achievable through compensatory environmental mitigation when the collective mitigation investments of project proponents is paired with the structure of successful state programs that are referenced in statute and are designed to enhance and preserve aquatic and riparian functions when there is a clear linkage between the environmental impacts and the goals of the state program. Programs such as the forestry riparian easement program, the family forest fish passage program, and the riparian open space program created pursuant to RCW 76.09.040 may have a logical and physical nexus with many underlying projects, especially road projects, and are proven to create a sustained benefit in the aquatic environment.(2) The legislature therefore declares that it is the policy of the state to authorize innovative mitigation measures by requiring state regulatory agencies to consider mitigation proposals for projects that are timed, designed, and located in a manner to provide equal or better biological functions and values compared to traditional on-site, in-kind mitigation proposals.(3) It is the intent of the legislature to authorize local governments to accommodate the goals of this chapter. It is not the intent of the legislature to: (a) Restrict the ability of a project proponent to pursue project specific mitigation; or (b) create any new authority for regulating wetlands or aquatic habitat beyond what is specifically provided for in this chapter.[ 2012 c 62 § 2; 1997 c 424 § 1.]