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WA Rev Code § 79.150.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.150 - Forest Biomass Materials Located on State Lands.|79.150.020 - List of potential sources of forest biomass on state lands.

RCW 79.150.020 List of potential sources of forest biomass on state lands.(1) The department may maintain a list of all potential sources of forest biomass on state lands for the purposes of identifying and making forest biomass, as defined in RCW 79.02.010, available for sale, exploration, collection, processing, storage, stockpiling, and conversion into energy, biofuels, for use in a biorefinery, or any other similar use. Prior to entering an agreement authorized by RCW 79.150.030(1) or 79.150.040, the department shall complete an inventory of the available biomass in the area that will be subject to the agreement, except that no inventory will be required as a prerequisite for demonstration projects authorized pursuant to RCW 43.30.835. The inventory must contain, at a minimum, an estimated amount of the forest biomass available in the area that will be subject to the agreement and a determination of the ecological and operational sustainability of the volumetric limit established by the agreement under RCW 79.150.030(5).(2) The data developed for each inventoried area will be compiled for the list authorized by this section. In order to utilize the list to limit or terminate any agreement authorized under chapter 126, Laws of 2010, the department must determine that the overall supply of forest biomass in a region or watershed has been reduced to a point such that further exploration and collection of forest biomass may not be ecologically or operationally sustainable or might otherwise threaten long-term forest health.[ 2010 c 126 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 79.150.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.150 - Forest Biomass Materials Located on State Lands.|79.150.040 - Lease of state land for resource use derived from biomass.

RCW 79.150.040 Lease of state land for resource use derived from biomass.The department is authorized to lease state lands for the purpose of the sale, exploration, collection, processing, storage, stockpiling, and conversion of biomass into energy or biofuels, the development of a biorefinery, or for any other resource use derived from biomass if the department is able to obtain a fair market rental return to the state or the appropriate constitutional or statutory trust and if the lease is in the best interest of the state and the affected trust, as follows:(1) Leases authorized under this chapter may be entered into by public auction, in accordance with the provisions of RCW 79.13.140, or by negotiation.(2) All leases must contain such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the department in accordance with the provision of chapter 126, Laws of 2010 and to ensure that removal of forest biomass is ecologically and operationally sustainable. Leases authorized under chapter 126, Laws of 2010 may be for a term of no more than fifty years.(3) For leases that involve the development of biomass processing, biofuel manufacturing, or biomass energy production facilities, the department may include provisions for reduced rent until an approved plan of development is completed and the facility is operational, provided that provisions are included to require: (a) Adequate assurances to protect the department's interest in a future rental income stream; (b) the demonstration of reasonable progress consistent with an approved plan of development; and (c) a lump sum payment to the department in the amount of the difference between the fair market rent and the reduced rent, if the approved plan of development is not completed in the time required in the plan.(4) The department may require the payment of production rent or other compensation for the use of the land and biomass materials on the land. If the department is not entering a supply contract under RCW 79.150.030 for any forest biomass to be supplied for the lease purposes from the leased land, then the department must require a royalty payment for the contribution to value of any product created by the lessee that is associated with forest biomass removed from the leased land in an amount fixed by the board.(5) All lessees and their operations authorized under this section shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.[ 2010 c 126 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 79.150.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.150 - Forest Biomass Materials Located on State Lands.|79.150.050 - Evaluation of supply agreements under RCW 79.150.030 and 79.150.040—Report to the legislature—Demonstration project authorized.

RCW 79.150.050 Evaluation of supply agreements under RCW 79.150.030 and 79.150.040—Report to the legislature—Demonstration project authorized.(1) For the purpose of improving forest health on state trust lands, and to better clarify the relationship of forest biomass with the by-products of forest health and fuel reduction treatments that have been traditionally utilized for other products, the department of natural resources shall evaluate how the supply agreements in RCW 79.150.030 and 79.150.040 could be utilized to sustain or create rural jobs and timber manufacturing infrastructure, and to sell state timber to traditional types of timber purchasers. The department shall report its findings to the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 15, 2010, and the evaluation must at a minimum identify how such supply agreements could:(a) Ensure the department of natural resources meets its fiduciary responsibility to the state's trust beneficiaries;(b) Restore or sustain a competitive market for state timber sales;(c) Generate returns for the trust that are commensurate with fluctuating market prices; and(d) Ensure environmental compliance with all pertinent state and federal laws, and provide for ecologically and operationally sustainable biomass removal.(2) For the purposes of proving the concepts evaluated in this section, the department may, in addition to the authorities granted in RCW 79.150.030, establish a five-year forest health and fuel reduction supply agreement demonstration project. Solicitation of private industry partners for such a project must be competitive, must focus on areas where traditional forest products manufacturing infrastructure and rural jobs have been lost, and should consider prioritizing partners utilizing materials for both traditional forest products and biomass energy conversion.[ 2010 c 126 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.010 - Findings.

RCW 79.155.010 Findings.(1) The legislature finds that since the 1980s, about seventeen percent of Washington's commercial forests have been converted to other land uses.(2) The legislature further finds that as these forests vanish, so do the multiple benefits they provide to our communities such as local timber jobs, clean air and water, carbon storage, fish and wildlife habitat, recreation areas, and open space.(3) The legislature further finds that it has provided policy direction to the department of natural resources to protect working forest and natural resource lands at risk of conversion, while maintaining the department's obligation to manage the state's fiduciary trust lands and financial assets in the interest of the beneficiaries of the respective trust lands and assets.(4) The legislature further finds that there are numerous tools available to acquire open space and recreation lands, but limited tools to protect working forestlands.(5) The legislature further finds that currently the department of natural resources lacks a full complement of policy and management tools necessary to protect or manage working forestlands at high risk of conversion.(6) The legislature further finds that through modest enhancements to existing department of natural resources' programs and authorities, the legislature can expand Washington's ability to protect communities' working forestlands, while simultaneously improving the revenue generating performance of fiduciary trust lands managed by the department of natural resources.(7) The legislature further finds that there has been past and present legislative intent to ensure continued public access for recreation compatible with the purposes of the lands involved.(8) The legislature further finds that there exists an interest by local communities, governments, and conservation organizations in cooperating in the establishment of working community forests.[ 2011 c 216 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.020 - Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage.

RCW 79.155.020 Community forestland trust—Department authorized to create and manage.(1) If deemed practicable by the commissioner, the department is authorized to create and manage, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, a discrete category of natural resource lands in a nonfiduciary community forestland trust. The department is authorized to assemble, hold title to, and manage directly or through mutual agreement with other landowners land suitable for sustainable forest management, to be held in the community forest trust.(2) All land held in the community forest trust must be held by the department and actively managed, consistent with a community working forest management plan developed under RCW 79.155.080, to generate financial support for the management of the community forest trust and to advance and sustain the working forest conservation objectives established in the management plan.[ 2011 c 216 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.030 - Identification of lands—Minimum program management principles.

RCW 79.155.030 Identification of lands—Minimum program management principles.(1) The department must identify lands for inclusion into the community forest trust, and manage the resulting community forest trust lands, in furtherance of goals that must be identified by the department prior to the creation of a community forest.(2) In addition to any goals for a community forest identified by the department, the community forest trust program must satisfy the following minimum program management principles:(a) Protecting in perpetuity working forestlands that are at a significant risk of conversion to another land use;(b) Securing financial and social viability through sound management plans and objectives that are consistent with the values of the local community;(c) Maintaining the land in a working status, through traditional forestry, management of specialized forest products harvest consistent with chapter 76.48 RCW, land leases, renewable energy opportunities, ecosystem services such as clean water protection or carbon storage, and other sources of revenue appropriate for the community forest to generate;(d) Generating revenue at levels that are, at a minimum, capable of reimbursing the department for management costs and providing for some reinvestment into the management objectives of the community forest;(e) Providing for ongoing, sustainable public recreational access, local timber jobs, clean air and water, carbon storage, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space in a manner that is compatible with management plans and objectives adopted for the community forest; and(f) Providing educational opportunities for local communities regarding the benefits that working forests provide to Washington's economy, communities, environment, and quality of life.[ 2011 c 216 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.040 - Department's authority.

RCW 79.155.040 Department's authority.(1)(a) Except as limited by RCW 79.155.070, the department is authorized to acquire by purchase, gift, donation, grant, transfer, or other means other than eminent domain fee interest or a partial interest, including conservation easements, in lands or other real property suitable for management as part of the community forest trust and that are appropriate to further the goals of the community forest trust.(b) The fair market value of any real property, and the associated valuable materials, of any land transferred into the community forest trust from state lands must be provided to the beneficiaries of the transferee [transferor] trust or used for the furtherance of the transferee [transferor] trust.(2) The department is authorized to receive funds for purposes of establishing the community forest trust from grants, gifts, bequests, or loans, whether public or private, as well as from legislative appropriation.(3) All acquisitions of real property for the community forest trust must be approved by the board.[ 2011 c 216 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.050 - Criteria for identification and prioritization of forestlands suitable for potential inclusion in the community forest trust.

RCW 79.155.050 Criteria for identification and prioritization of forestlands suitable for potential inclusion in the community forest trust.(1) The department shall, if it establishes a community forest trust program, develop criteria to be used for the identification and prioritization of forestland that is suitable for potential inclusion in the community forest trust due to its ability to most closely satisfy the goals of the community forest trust outlined in RCW 79.155.030.(2) In prioritizing forestland for inclusion in the community forest trust, the department shall give priority consideration to lands that are:(a) The subject of established management and revenue production objectives of potential local community partners;(b) At greatest risk of conversion;(c) Helping buffer commercial public or private forestlands from encroaching development;(d) Helping to block up other community forest assets to be managed consistently with the community forest trust acquisition;(e) Able to be managed, considering surrounding current or expected future land use, as economically sustainable working forestland either alone or in combination with adjacent and nearby working forestland, including other lands incorporated into a community forest by the department, a local governmental entity, or a not-for-profit conservation organization managing forestlands;(f) Eligible for trust land transfer capital appropriations;(g) Available for acquisition through existing or new programs or funding;(h) Supporting existing or expanded forest product manufacturing infrastructure;(i) Useful in leveraging funds to match available acquisition moneys;(j) Positioned to have their development rights extinguished through transfer, purchase, conservation easement, lease, or by some other comparable mechanism; or(k) Enhancing state fiduciary trust land revenues by repositioning underperforming state trust lands to provide short and long-term revenues to that trust.[ 2011 c 216 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.060 - Prioritized list identifying nominated parcels of state land or state forestland.

RCW 79.155.060 Prioritized list identifying nominated parcels of state land or state forestland.(1) The department shall, if it establishes a community forest trust program, submit biennially to the office of financial management and the appropriate committees of the legislature a prioritized list that identifies nominated parcels of state land or state forestland that are suitable for transfer into the community forest trust, where such a transfer is also in the best interest of the respective trust. The department shall solicit and consider input from the board on a draft list before submitting a final prioritized list.(2) The list of nominated parcels must reflect consideration of local nominations and the priorities outlined in RCW 79.155.050 and be delivered to the required recipients by November 1st of each even-numbered year.[ 2011 c 216 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.070 - Local community must commit to preserving land as a working forest—Financial contribution.

RCW 79.155.070 Local community must commit to preserving land as a working forest—Financial contribution.(1) The department must, prior to using the authority provided in RCW 79.155.040 to acquire land for inclusion in a community forest, obtain from the local community a commitment to preserving the land as a working forest.(2) Following initial agreement between potential local community partners and the department regarding management and revenue production objectives for the lands in question, the local commitment to preserving the land as a working forest must be demonstrated by the county, city, or other local entity providing a financial contribution to the specific community forest of at least fifty percent of the difference between the parcel's appraised fair market value and the parcel's timber and forestland value. The local community contribution may be provided through any means deemed acceptable by the department and the local contributor, including:(a) Traditional financing or bonding;(b) The purchase of conservation easements; or(c) The purchase or transfer of development rights.(3) The local financial contribution must be deposited into the parkland trust revolving fund created in RCW 43.30.385 and used solely for acquisition of the community forest trust land parcel or parcels for which it is intended.[ 2011 c 216 § 7.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.080 - Postacquisition management plan.

RCW 79.155.080 Postacquisition management plan.(1) All lands transferred into community forest trust status must be managed in accordance with a postacquisition management plan developed by the department consistent with this section.(2) After exercising the authority provided in RCW 79.155.040 to acquire land for inclusion in a community forest, the department must establish a local advisory committee in cooperation with any interested and affected local government.(3) The department must use the local advisory committee as a source of advice and comment on a postacquisition management plan. Comments and advice should, at a minimum, include plans for how the department will maintain the land's working status and economic viability objectives through revenue-generating activities that are sufficient to generate ongoing revenue at a level that reimburses administrative costs, while satisfying, or contributing to, identified community conservation and recreation objectives.(4)(a) If, after a good faith effort by all parties, the department and the local advisory committee fail to reach a consensus on a conceptual postacquisition management plan for the parcel in question, the department may either adopt a management plan informed by the community or recommend to the board that the parcel be divested through the existing authority of the department and the board. If the parcel is divested, then, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, proceeds must return to the parkland trust revolving fund created in RCW 43.30.385.(b) Prior to depositing the proceeds of a land divestiture under this subsection to the parkland trust revolving fund, the department must first reimburse local entities that have made financial contributions to the parcel's acquisition as provided in RCW 79.155.070(2). However, local entities are only eligible for reimbursement upon divestiture under this subsection if the board determines that:(i) The subsequent parcel use is likely to remain a working forest, the department secures full fair market value for the parcel, and the local entity's contribution was not provided by a state or federal grant; or(ii) The funds used as part of the local contribution were originally provided through a grant that requires, as a condition of the grant, the repayment of granted dollars if the purposes of the grant are not or cannot be fulfilled and the decision to divest the land creates an inability for the purposes of the grant to be fulfilled.[ 2011 c 216 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.090 - Use of revenue produced on community forest trust lands.

RCW 79.155.090 Use of revenue produced on community forest trust lands.(1) Any revenue produced on community forest trust lands must be allocated as follows:(a) All costs incurred by the department in managing the parcel must be fully reimbursed; and(b) After the department's management costs are reimbursed, any remaining revenue must then be prioritized to fulfill the management objectives for the specific parcel as identified in the postacquisition management plan developed under RCW 79.155.080 consistent with the management principles outlined in RCW 79.155.030.(2)(a) If, by the determination of the board, there is revenue remaining in any given biennium after fulfilling the requirements of subsection (1) of this section, then the board has the discretion to reimburse any local entities' eligible financial contributions for acquisition of the parcel under RCW 79.155.070(2) and any state contribution to the acquisition of the parcel up to an amount that represents fifty percent of the difference between the parcel's original appraised fair market value and the parcel's timber and forestland value. However, any funds used as part of the local contribution may not be reimbursed if the funds were originally provided through a state or federal grant, provided through a fully compensated transfer of development rights at fair market value, or provided by a donation of funds or property.(b) If the board decides to reimburse the state and local contribution, then it must allocate the reimbursement so that fifty percent is provided to the state general fund and fifty percent is provided to any eligible partnering local entities.(c) Nothing in this section creates an expectation, requirement, or fiduciary duty for the board or the associated community forest trust lands to generate revenue in excess of amounts as provided in subsection (1)(a) of this section.[ 2014 c 32 § 5; 2011 c 216 § 9.]
WA Rev Code § 79.155.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.155 - Community Forest Trusts.|79.155.100 - Periodic review and update of community forest trust program.

RCW 79.155.100 Periodic review and update of community forest trust program.By September 1, 2014, and periodically, but at least once every ten years thereafter, the department shall provide to the board a review and update of the community forest trust program. The review must include updates on the performance of the community forest trust statewide and notification of any community forest trust parcels not performing according to their management plan. The department is authorized to, consistent with this chapter, recommend to the board action to divest itself of nonperforming community forest trust parcels using existing policies and mechanisms available to the department and the board.[ 2011 c 216 § 10.]