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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.560 - Farm plans—Disclosure of information.

RCW 89.08.560
Farm plans—Disclosure of information.
(1) Conservation districts, before developing a farm plan, shall inform the landowner or operator in writing of the types of information that is [are] subject to disclosure to the public under chapter 42.56 RCW. Before completion of the final draft of a farm plan, the district shall send the final draft farm plan to the requesting landowner or operator for verification of the information. The final farm plan shall not be disclosed by the conservation district until the requesting owner or operator confirms the information in the farm plan and a signed copy of the farm plan is received by the conservation district.
(2) For the purposes of this section and RCW 42.56.270, "farm plan" means a plan prepared by a conservation district in cooperation with a landowner or operator for the purpose of conserving, monitoring, or enhancing renewable natural resources. Farm plans include, but are not limited to, provisions pertaining to:
(a) Developing and prioritizing conservation objectives;
(b) Taking an inventory of soil, water, vegetation, livestock, and wildlife;
(c) Implementing conservation measures, including technical assistance provided by the district;
(d) Developing and implementing livestock nutrient management measures;
(e) Developing and implementing plans pursuant to business and financial objectives; and
(f) Recording, or records of, decisions.
[ 2006 c 369 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.570 - Crop purchase contracts for dedicated energy crops.

RCW 89.08.570
Crop purchase contracts for dedicated energy crops.
In addition to any other authority provided by law, conservation districts are authorized to enter into crop purchase contracts for a dedicated energy crop for the purposes of producing, selling, and distributing biodiesel produced from Washington state feedstocks, cellulosic ethanol, and cellulosic ethanol blend fuels.
[ 2007 c 348 § 207.]
NOTES:
Findings—2007 c 348: See RCW 43.325.005.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.580 - Puget Sound partners.

RCW 89.08.580
Puget Sound partners.
When administering water quality and habitat protection grants under this chapter, the commission shall give preference only to Puget Sound partners, as defined in RCW 90.71.010, in comparison to other entities that are eligible to be included in the definition of Puget Sound partner. Entities that are not eligible to be a Puget Sound partner due to geographic location, composition, exclusion from the scope of the Puget Sound action agenda developed by the Puget Sound partnership under RCW 90.71.310, or for any other reason, shall not be given less preferential treatment than Puget Sound partners.
[ 2007 c 341 § 29.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2007 c 341: See RCW 90.71.907.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.590 - Administering funds—Preference to an evergreen community.

RCW 89.08.590
Administering funds—Preference to an evergreen community.
When administering funds under this chapter, the commission shall give preference only to an evergreen community recognized under RCW 76.15.090 in comparison to other entities that are eligible to receive evergreen community designation. Entities not eligible for designation as an evergreen community shall not be given less preferential treatment than an evergreen community.
[ 2021 c 209 § 22; 2008 c 299 § 32.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2021 c 209: See note following RCW 76.15.005.
Short title—2008 c 299: See note following RCW 76.15.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.610 - Sustainable farms and fields grant program—Definitions.

RCW 89.08.610
Sustainable farms and fields grant program—Definitions.
The definitions in this section apply throughout this section and RCW 89.08.615 through 89.08.635 unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Carbon dioxide equivalent emission" means a metric measure used to compare the emission impacts from various greenhouse gases based on their relative radiative forcing effect over a specified period of time compared to carbon dioxide emissions.
(2) "Carbon dioxide equivalent impact" means a metric measure of the cumulative radiative forcing impacts of both carbon dioxide equivalent emissions and the radiative forcing benefits of carbon storage.
(3) "Commission" means the Washington state conservation commission created in this chapter.
(4) "Conservation district" means one or a group of Washington state's conservation districts created in this chapter.
[ 2020 c 351 § 2.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—2020 c 351: "The legislature finds that Washington's working agricultural lands are essential to the economic and social well-being of our rural communities and to the state's overall environment and economy. The legislature further finds that different challenges and opportunities exist to expand the use of precision agriculture for different crops in the state by assisting farmers, ranchers, and aquaculturists to purchase equipment and receive technical assistance to reduce their operations' carbon footprint while ensuring that crops and soils receive exactly what they need for optimum health and productivity. Moreover, the legislature finds that opportunities exist to enhance soil health through carbon farming and regenerative agriculture by increasing soil organic carbon levels while ensuring appropriate carbon to nitrogen ratios, and to store carbon in standing trees, seaweed, and other vegetation. Therefore, it is the intent of the legislature to provide cost-sharing competitive grant opportunities to enable farmers and ranchers to adopt practices that increase appropriate quantities of carbon stored in and above their soil and to initiate or expand the use of precision agriculture on their farms. This act seeks to leverage and enhance existing state and federal cost-sharing programs for farm, ranch, and aquaculture operations." [ 2020 c 351 § 1.]
Public funds—2020 c 351: "No public funds shall be awarded as grants under this act until public funds are appropriated specifically for the sustainable farms and fields grant program." [ 2020 c 351 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.620 - Grant recipients—Prioritization.

RCW 89.08.620
Grant recipients—Prioritization.
(1) When prioritizing grant recipients, the commission, in consultation with the department of agriculture, Washington State University, the department of fish and wildlife, and the United States department of agriculture natural resources conservation service, shall seek to maximize the benefits of the grant program by leveraging other state, nonstate, public, and private sources of money. The primary metrics used to rank grant applications must be made public by the commission.
(2) The grant program must prioritize or weight projects based on consideration of the individual project's ability to:
(a) Increase the quantity of organic carbon in topsoil through practices including, but not limited to, cover cropping, no-till and minimum tillage conservation practices, crop rotations, manure application, biochar application, compost application, and changes in grazing management;
(b) Increase the quantity of organic carbon in aquatic soils;
(c) Intentionally integrate trees, shrubs, seaweed, or other vegetation into management of agricultural and aquacultural lands, with preference for native vegetation where practicable and appropriate;
(d) Reduce or avoid carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in or from soils;
(e) Reduce nitrous oxide and methane emissions through changes to livestock or soil management; and
(f) Increase usage of precision agricultural practices.
(3) The commission shall develop and approve a prioritization metric to guide the distribution of funds appropriated by the legislature for this purpose, with the goal of producing cost-effective carbon dioxide equivalent impact benefits.
(4) Applicants that create riparian buffers along waterways, or otherwise benefit fish habitat, must receive an enhanced prioritization compared to other grant applications that perform similarly under the prioritization metrics developed by the commission.
(5)(a) Applicants that create or maintain pollinator habitat must receive an enhanced prioritization compared to other grant applications that perform similarly under the prioritization metrics developed by the commission.
(b) For the purposes of this subsection, "pollinator habitat" means an area of land that is or may be developed as habitat beneficial for the feeding, nesting, and reproduction of all pollinators, including honey bees, as determined by the department of agriculture.
(6) The commission shall downgrade a specific grant proposal within its prioritization metric if the proposal is expected to cause significant environmental damage to fish and wildlife habitat.
[ 2021 c 278 § 9; 2020 c 351 § 4.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Intent—2021 c 278: See note following RCW 43.23.320.
Findings—Intent—Public funds—2020 c 351: See notes following RCW 89.08.610.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.625 - Methods for measuring, estimating, and verifying outcomes.

RCW 89.08.625
Methods for measuring, estimating, and verifying outcomes.
(1) The commission shall determine methods for measuring, estimating, and verifying outcomes under the sustainable farms and fields grant program in consultation with Washington State University, the department of agriculture, and the United States department of agriculture natural resources conservation service.
(2) The commission may require that a grant recipient allow the commission, or contractors hired by the commission, including the Washington State University extension program, access to the grant recipient's property, with reasonable notice, to monitor the results of the project or projects funded by the grant program on the grant recipient's property.
[ 2020 c 351 § 5.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Public funds—2020 c 351: See notes following RCW 89.08.610.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.630 - Reports to the legislature and governor—Updates—Evaluations.

RCW 89.08.630
Reports to the legislature and governor—Updates—Evaluations.
(1) By October 15, 2021, and every two years thereafter, the commission shall report to the legislature and the governor on the performance of the sustainable farms and fields grant program.
(2) The commission shall update at least annually a public list of projects and pertinent information including a summary of state and federal funds, private funds spent, landowner and other private cost-share matching expenditures, the total number of projects, and an estimate of carbon sequestered or carbon emissions reduced.
(3) By July 1, 2024, the commission, in consultation with Washington State University and the University of Washington, must evaluate and update the most appropriate carbon equivalency metric to apply to the sustainable farms and fields grant program. Until this equivalency is updated by the commission, or unless the commission identifies a better metric, the commission must initially use a one hundred year storage equivalency that can be linearly annualized to recognize the storage of carbon on an annual basis based on the storage of 3.67 tons of biogenic carbon for one hundred years being assigned a value equal to avoiding one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions.
(4) The grant recipient and other private cost-sharing participants may at their own discretion allow their business or other name to be listed on the public report produced by the commission. All grant recipients must allow anonymized information about the full funding of their project to be made available for public reporting purposes.
[ 2020 c 351 § 6.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Public funds—2020 c 351: See notes following RCW 89.08.610.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.635 - Sustainable farms and fields account.

RCW 89.08.635
Sustainable farms and fields account.
The sustainable farms and fields account is created in the state treasury. All receipts of money directed to the account must be deposited in the account. Expenditures from the account may be used only for purposes relating to the sustainable farms and fields grant program established in RCW 89.08.615. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation.
[ 2020 c 351 § 7.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—Public funds—2020 c 351: See notes following RCW 89.08.610.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts. › 89.08.640 - Habitat for managed and native pollinators—Small grants program.

RCW 89.08.640
Habitat for managed and native pollinators—Small grants program.
(1) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the commission is authorized to develop an ongoing small grants program to provide funding to the conservation districts to educate residents and community groups in urban, suburban, and rural nonfarm areas about the value of habitat for both managed and native pollinators, and to provide the necessary technical and financial assistance and materials to create it.
(2) Educational efforts should include the benefits of habitat diversity, especially pollen-rich and nectar-rich flowering forbs and shrubs. Preference for pollinator plants should be given to native plants or noninvasive, nonnative plants.
(3) Planting projects should provide diverse native or nonnative, noninvasive plants of high quality for pollinator foraging, nesting, and overwintering, as determined by site suitability. Options may include, but are not limited to, bee or eco-lawns, flowering meadow gardens, xeriscaping, shrub plantings, tree plantings, rain gardens, riparian restoration, and other pollinator-friendly landscaping.
(4) Criteria to rank applicants should include a detailed budget demonstrating funding needs, resource concerns addressed, value to at-risk native pollinators, multiple-use benefits of habitat, planned project longevity, and plans for long-term maintenance.
[ 2021 c 278 § 10.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Intent—2021 c 278: See note following RCW 43.23.320.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.10 - Farmland Preservation. › 89.10.005 - Findings.

RCW 89.10.005
Findings.
The legislature finds that maintaining the capacity to provide adequate food and fiber resources is essential to the long-term sustainability of the state's citizens and economy. The nation's population has reached three hundred million and will continue to increase for the foreseeable future. Further, the world population is now over six billion and is projected to reach nine billion by the year 2050.
In Washington state, the population is growing by over one million people every decade with much of this growth occurring in western Washington. This growth is increasing the competition for land not only for housing, but also associated retail, commercial, industrial, and leisure industries.
The legislature finds that many once-productive agricultural areas in western Washington have been overtaken and irreversibly converted to nonagricultural uses. Other agricultural areas in the state have diminished to the point that they are dangerously close to losing the land mass necessary to be economically viable. Further, only a limited number of areas in western Washington still retain a sufficient agricultural land base and the necessary agricultural infrastructure to continue to be economically viable both in the short term and the long term.
The legislature recognizes that because this significant decline has largely occurred in less than a half century, it is imperative that mechanisms be established at the state level to focus attention, take the action needed to retain agricultural land, and ensure the opportunity for future generations to farm these lands.
The legislature finds that history shows that previous advanced civilizations in the world were founded on highly productive agricultural lands and food production systems but when the land or its productivity was lost, the civilizations declined. In contrast, other civilizations have existed for millennia because they maintained their agricultural land base, its productivity, and economic conditions sufficient to maintain stewardship of their land.
The legislature finds that there is a finite quantity of high quality agricultural land and that often this agricultural land is mistakenly viewed as an expendable resource. The legislature finds that the retention of agricultural land is desirable, not only to produce food, livestock, and other agricultural products, but also to maintain our state economy and preferable environmental conditions. For these reasons, and because it is essential that agricultural production be sufficient to meet the needs of our growing population, commitment to the retention of agricultural land should be reflected at the state policy level by the creation of an office of farmland preservation to support the retention of farmland and the viability of farming for future generations.
[ 2007 c 352 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.010 - Preamble.

RCW 89.12.010
Preamble.
It is the policy of the state of Washington in connection with lands within the scope of this chapter which may be irrigated through works of federal reclamation projects, to assist the United States in the reduction or prevention of speculation in such lands and in limiting the size of the holdings thereof entitled to receive water by means of the works of such projects, and otherwise to cooperate with the United States with respect thereto.
[ 1957 c 165 § 1; 1943 c 275 § 1; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-20.]
NOTES:
Severability—1943 c 275: "Each section and provision of this act shall be considered separable from every other section and provision of the act, and should any section or provision thereof be held unconstitutional, the unconstitutionality of such section or provision shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of the act, but in that event the unconstitutional section or provision shall be eliminated and the remainder of the act remain in full force and effect." [ 1943 c 275 § 16.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.020 - Definitions.

RCW 89.12.020
Definitions.
As used in this chapter,
The term "secretary" shall mean the secretary of the interior of the United States, or his or her duly authorized representative.
The term "appraised value" shall mean the value of lands within the scope of this chapter appraised or reappraised by the secretary without reference to or increment on account of the irrigation works built or to be built by the United States.
The term "district" shall mean an irrigation or reclamation district governed by this chapter as provided in RCW 89.12.030.
The term "federal reclamation laws" shall mean the act of congress of June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388) and acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto including the act of congress entitled "An Act to amend the Act approved May 27, 1937 (Ch. 269, 50 Stat. 208), by providing substitute and additional authority for the prevention of speculation in lands of the Columbia Basin project, and substitute an additional authority related to the settlement and development of the project, and for other purposes, enacted and approved in the Seventy-Eighth Session."
The term "lands" shall mean, unless otherwise indicated, lands within the boundaries of a district contracting or intending to contract with the United States under the terms of this chapter.
The term "owner," "landowner," and "any one landowner" shall mean any person, corporation, joint stock association or family owning lands that are within the scope of this chapter.
The term "family" shall mean a group consisting of either or both husband and wife, together with their children under eighteen years of age, or all of such children if both parents are dead, the term "their children" including the issue and lawfully adopted children of either or both husband and wife. Within the meaning of this chapter, lands shall be deemed to be held by a family if held as separate property of husband or wife, or if held as a part or all of their community property, or if they are the property of any or all of their children under eighteen years of age.
[ 2013 c 23 § 552; 1943 c 275 § 3; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-22.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.030 - Applicability and purpose of chapter.

RCW 89.12.030
Applicability and purpose of chapter.
The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any irrigation or reclamation district organized under the laws of this state contracting or intending to contract with the United States under the federal reclamation laws with respect to a water supply for irrigation from the Columbia Basin project or from any project or division of a project hereafter undertaken in this state by the United States under those laws, and shall govern as to any lands which are now or may hereafter be included in any such district and as to the relationship between any such district and any such lands. The prospect of the construction of the irrigation features of the Columbia Basin project and of other works under the federal reclamation laws for the irrigation of lands in this state requires the granting of authority to irrigation and reclamation districts and to state and county officers to assist the United States, in accordance with the policy of this enactment, in meeting the problems of land speculation and in limiting the size of holdings of lands that may be benefited by such works, and otherwise to cooperate with the United States in connection with the irrigation of lands in this state. The provisions of this chapter, however, are supplemental to other provisions of the law of the state, not inconsistent herewith, which pertain to such districts.
[ 1943 c 275 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 7525-21.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.040 - Units and legal subdivisions authorized—Size—Plats—Excess land.

RCW 89.12.040
Units and legal subdivisions authorized—Size—Plats—Excess land.
In connection with a district contracting or intending to contract with the United States under this chapter, the secretary for the purpose of administering the federal reclamation laws and of providing for the delivery of water thereto, the method thereof, and the turnout therefor may segregate such lands, or any part thereof, into units and/or legal subdivisions, having in mind the character of soil, topography, method or methods of irrigation best suited therefor, location with respect to the irrigation system, type of irrigation system, and such other relevant factors as enter into the determination of the area and boundaries thereof and the method or methods of irrigating the same. Plats or revisions thereof showing the units and/or the legal subdivisions and the exclusive method or methods of irrigating such units and/or legal subdivisions or portions thereof when approved, may be filed by the United States for record with the auditor of the county in which the land is located. Lands in excess of the acreage in the amount specified by applicable federal law as not being excess lands held by any one landowner shall be deemed excess land.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 71 § 1; 1963 c 3 § 1; 1957 c 165 § 2; 1943 c 275 § 4; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-23.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.050 - Contracts with United States—Permissible provisions.

RCW 89.12.050
Contracts with United States—Permissible provisions.
(1) A district may enter into repayment and other contracts with the United States under the terms of the federal reclamation laws in matters relating to federal reclamation projects, and may with respect to lands within its boundaries include in the contract, among others, an agreement that:
(a) The district will not deliver water by means of the project works provided by the United States to or for excess lands not eligible therefor under applicable federal law.
(b) As a condition to receiving water by means of the project works, each excess landowner in the district, unless his or her excess lands are otherwise eligible to receive water under applicable federal law, shall be required to execute a recordable contract covering all of his or her excess lands within the district.
(c) All excess lands within the district not eligible to receive water by means of the project works shall be subject to assessment in the same manner and to the same extent as lands eligible to receive water, subject to such provisions as the secretary may prescribe for postponement in payment of all or part of the assessment but not beyond a date five years from the time water would have become available for such lands had they been eligible therefor.
(d) The secretary is authorized to amend any existing contract, deed, or other document to conform to the provisions of applicable federal law as it now exists. Any such amendment may be filed for record under RCW 89.12.080.
(2) A district may enter into a contract with the United States for the transfer of operations and maintenance of the works of a federal reclamation project, but the contract does not impute to the district negligence for design or construction defects or deficiencies of the transferred works. Any contract, covenant, promise, agreement, or understanding purporting to indemnify against liability for damages caused by or resulting from the negligent acts or omissions of the United States, its employees, or agents is not enforceable unless expressly authorized by state law.
[ 2013 c 177 § 13; 2013 c 23 § 553; 2009 c 145 § 3; 1963 c 3 § 2; 1957 c 165 § 3; 1951 c 200 § 1; 1943 c 275 § 5; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-24.]
NOTES:
Reviser's note: This section was amended by 2013 c 23 § 553 and by 2013 c 177 § 13, each without reference to the other. Both amendments are incorporated in the publication of this section under RCW 1.12.025(2). For rule of construction, see RCW 1.12.025(1).
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.060 - Covenants running with the land—Contract provisions to govern.

RCW 89.12.060
Covenants running with the land—Contract provisions to govern.
Any or all of the provisions which may be required to be included in recordable contracts may be made covenants running with any tract of land covered by the contract by expressly so providing therein. Recordable contracts expressly providing that any or all of such provisions shall be covenants running with the land covered thereby shall not be destroyed or extinguished by any tax or assessment foreclosure or deed issued pursuant thereto.
Such of the limitations and provisions of RCW 89.12.050 as are included in the repayment contract between the district and the United States, shall govern all the lands within the district unless otherwise provided in such contract and shall govern notwithstanding any other provisions of the laws of this state.
[ 1963 c 3 § 3; 1953 c 148 § 1; 1943 c 275 § 6; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-25.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.071 - Fraudulent and unlawful conveyances—Preservation of rights acquired prior to repeal of RCW 89.12.070.

RCW 89.12.071
Fraudulent and unlawful conveyances—Preservation of rights acquired prior to repeal of RCW 89.12.070.
The rights of any vendee or grantee as defined in section 7(b), chapter 275, Laws of 1943 as amended by section 2(b), chapter 200, Laws of 1951 and in RCW 89.12.070(2) are hereby preserved as to any transactions that were consummated by contract or deed prior to the repeal of said sections by this chapter.
[ 1963 c 3 § 6.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.080 - Instruments may be filed—Filing imparts notice.

RCW 89.12.080
Instruments may be filed—Filing imparts notice.
There may be filed for record in the office of the county auditor in the county in which the land lies any of the following: (1) Copies of any plat of established farm units approved by the secretary as provided in RCW 89.12.040, when authenticated in the manner authorized by law; (2) copies of any instrument, action, determination, rule or regulation of the secretary made in connection with the provisions of RCW 89.12.050 or otherwise under the federal reclamation laws and which is or may be determinative of title to lands or interest in lands, when authenticated in the manner authorized by law; and (3) any contract or instrument required to be executed by an owner, land purchaser or other person in connection with provisions incorporated in repayment contracts between a district and the United States as authorized by RCW 89.12.050. Such filing shall impart legal notice to the public of the matters and things set out therein.
[ 1943 c 275 § 8; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-27.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.090 - State lands in district—State consent to assessment, conditions.

RCW 89.12.090
State lands in district—State consent to assessment, conditions.
Whenever a district to which this chapter applies is organized or in process of organization, the state of Washington, by and through its proper officials, is authorized and directed to have any state lands within the exterior boundaries of such district included as a part of the lands of such district. The state hereby consents to the assessment by the district of such state lands so included in any such irrigation district, and to the enforcement of the payment of such assessments in like manner and to the same extent as applicable to private lands in such districts, except that the payment of such assessment against such state lands shall not be enforced by transfer of title, by tax sale, tax foreclosure or otherwise, until the state has sold or transferred such lands to a private party.
[ 1943 c 275 § 9; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-28.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.100 - State lands—Terms and conditions of sale.

RCW 89.12.100
State lands—Terms and conditions of sale.
If state lands within a district have been segregated into farm units and the appraised value thereof established, the state shall recognize and accept the appraisal as determining the market value of such lands, and shall offer the state lands for sale for cash on the following terms and conditions:
(1) Sales shall be made only at the appraised value; (2) only the number of farm units or acreage specified by applicable federal law as not being excess lands shall be sold to any person or family; (3) applicants for the purchase of a farm unit shall be selected, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (C) of section 4 of the act of congress of December 5, 1924 (43 Stat. 702); and (4) each applicant shall be required to execute a recordable contract within six months from the date the state's conveyance or contract to convey is made, whichever is the earlier, if such a contract is required as a condition to the delivery of water under the terms of the district's repayment contract with the United States; except as the carrying out of any such terms or conditions as to particular state lands may be precluded by provisions of the state Constitution.
The state shall cooperate with the secretary in carrying out the purposes of this chapter and in connection therewith, may execute recordable contracts covering any state lands and such other agreements as are necessary in connection with the administration of this chapter.
[ 1957 c 165 § 4; 1951 c 200 § 3; 1943 c 275 § 10; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-29.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.110 - County lands—Contracts with United States.

RCW 89.12.110
County lands—Contracts with United States.
In the case of any county owned land within any district has been segregated into farm units as provided in RCW 89.12.040 and the appraised value thereof established, the board of county commissioners of the county shall have authority at its option of entering into a contract with the United States to bring any of such county lands as the county board shall determine under the provisions of the recordable contracts provided for in RCW 89.12.040, whenever such contracts are required as a condition to the delivery of water under the terms of the contract between the district and the United States, upon such terms as shall be agreed upon between the county and the United States: PROVIDED, That such contract shall not obligate the county to pay any district assessments levied against such lands except such, if any, as the board of county commissioners of said county shall elect to pay: PROVIDED FURTHER, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the district of the right to assess such lands, if otherwise assessable and to enforce the collection of the same in the manner provided by law.
[ 1943 c 275 § 11; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-30.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.120 - Acceptance of federal act—Assessment and taxation authorized.

RCW 89.12.120
Acceptance of federal act—Assessment and taxation authorized.
The provisions and limitations of subsection 5(b) and 5(c) of the act of congress, as above entitled in RCW 89.12.020, concerning assessment and taxation of lands within the Columbia Basin project while legal title remains vested in the United States are hereby accepted; and assessment and taxation by the state, political subdivisions thereof, and districts are hereby authorized to be made in accordance with such provisions and limitations.
[ 1943 c 275 § 14; Rem. Supp. 1943 § 7525-33.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.131 - Adoption of Columbia Basin project act—Revocation of state's consent.

RCW 89.12.131
Adoption of Columbia Basin project act—Revocation of state's consent.
Section 15, chapter 275, Laws of 1943 as amended by section 4, chapter 200, Laws of 1951 and RCW 89.12.130 are each repealed and any adoption, enactment, or consent of this state to the provisions of the federal act, as amended, cited therein are hereby revoked.
[ 1963 c 3 § 5.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.140 - Subdivision and sale of state lands in reclamation project.

RCW 89.12.140
Subdivision and sale of state lands in reclamation project.
The commissioner of public lands of the state of Washington is authorized to cooperate with the secretary of the interior of the United States with a view to facilitate the execution of plans approved by the secretary of the interior for subdivision and disposal of lands under federal reclamation projects constructed or to be constructed under the provisions of the act of congress of June 17, 1902, (32 Stat., 388) and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto in farm units bounded by lines considered more economical and convenient for irrigation and reclamation than the lines of legal subdivisions and for such purpose is authorized to cause to be prepared and filed a plat or plats of any state lands in any such federal reclamation project showing said state lands subdivided into blocks, lots or farm units, with boundary lines other than those of legal subdivisions, and located with a view to greater convenience, economy or efficiency in irrigation and reclamation, and such subdivision into lots, blocks or farm units may be made in harmony with any general plan approved by the secretary of the interior for subdivision of the lands of any such federal reclamation project or any part or division of any such project into blocks, lots or farm units with boundary lines other than the boundary lines of legal subdivisions and designed for more convenient, economical or efficient reclamation and irrigation. And the commissioner of public lands is authorized to offer for sale and to sell such state lands, in the lots, blocks or farm units designated on such plat or plats instead of offering and selling the same in the legal subdivisions of the U.S. public land surveys.
[ 1927 c 246 § 1; RRS § 7402-280.]
NOTES:
Severability—1927 c 246: "Sections 1 and 2 of this act are each declared to be separable from the remainder of the act, and, should either of said sections be held unconstitutional or void, the remainder of the act shall nevertheless remain effective and in such event such unconstitutional section shall be eliminated without affecting the remainder of the act." [ 1927 c 246 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.150 - Exchange of state and federal lands.

RCW 89.12.150
Exchange of state and federal lands.
From and after the date that the consent of the United States shall be given thereto by act of congress, the department of natural resources is authorized, upon request from the secretary of the interior, to cause an appraisal to be made by the board of natural resources of state lands in any division of any federal reclamation project which the secretary of the interior shall advise the department that he or she desires to have subdivided into farm units of class referred to in RCW 89.12.140, and also to cause to be appraised by the board of natural resources such public lands of the United States on the same project, or elsewhere in the state of Washington, as the secretary of the interior may propose to exchange for such state land, and when the secretary of the interior shall have secured from congress authority to make such exchange the department is authorized to exchange such state lands in any federal reclamation project for public lands of the United States on the same project or elsewhere in the state of Washington of approximately equal appraised valuation, and in making such exchange is authorized to execute suitable instruments in writing conveying or relinquishing to the United States such state lands and accepting in lieu thereof such public land of approximately equal appraised valuation.
[ 2013 c 23 § 554; 1988 c 128 § 75; 1927 c 246 § 2; RRS § 7402-281.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.180 - Reports to legislature regarding activities under RCW 89.12.170.

RCW 89.12.180
Reports to legislature regarding activities under RCW 89.12.170.
The department of ecology shall report annually to the standing committees of the legislature with jurisdiction over water resources regarding the activities authorized by RCW 89.12.170, beginning December 1, 2002, and ending December 1, 2007.
[ 2002 c 330 § 4.]
NOTES:
Finding—Intent—2002 c 330: See notes following RCW 89.12.170.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.190 - Columbia Basin project—Findings—Source of surface water—Management of groundwater depletions.

RCW 89.12.190
Columbia Basin project—Findings—Source of surface water—Management of groundwater depletions.
(1) The legislature finds that conserved water from the developed portions of the federal Columbia Basin project can provide an immediate source of surface water to offset a limited portion of groundwater depletions within the undeveloped portions of the federal project extending the availability of groundwater for domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural uses. The department of ecology has adopted rules establishing groundwater management subareas within the federal Columbia Basin project. A primary purpose of some of the rules was to manage groundwater depletions that are occurring as a result of the department's decision to allow continued deep well agricultural irrigation in anticipation that development of the federal Columbia Basin project would continue at its historic pace and that project water would replace groundwater and recharge the depleted aquifer.
(2) The legislature also finds that recent studies have documented water conservation in areas served by project irrigation districts as a result of distribution system lining and piping and use of more efficient conveyance system technology.
[ 2004 c 195 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.200 - Columbia Basin project—Intent—Allocation of conserved waters to deep well irrigated lands.

RCW 89.12.200
Columbia Basin project—Intent—Allocation of conserved waters to deep well irrigated lands.
It is the intent of the legislature that the department of ecology enter into agreements with the United States and Columbia Basin project irrigation districts regarding the allocation of water conserved from within areas currently served by project waters to deep well irrigated lands within the federal Columbia Basin project and for other authorized project beneficial uses. The department may provide the irrigation districts data identifying areas with the most serious groundwater depletions. The irrigation districts shall consider and may rely on the department's data and recommendations in making allocation decisions to offset groundwater withdrawals consistent with the operational constraints of the distribution system.
[ 2004 c 195 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.12 - Reclamation and Irrigation Districts in Reclamation Areas. › 89.12.900 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.

RCW 89.12.900
Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
For the purposes of this chapter, the terms spouse, marriage, marital, husband, wife, widow, widower, next of kin, and family shall be interpreted as applying equally to state registered domestic partnerships or individuals in state registered domestic partnerships as well as to marital relationships and married persons, and references to dissolution of marriage shall apply equally to state registered domestic partnerships that have been terminated, dissolved, or invalidated, to the extent that such interpretation does not conflict with federal law. Where necessary to implement chapter 521, Laws of 2009, gender-specific terms such as husband and wife used in any statute, rule, or other law shall be construed to be gender neutral, and applicable to individuals in state registered domestic partnerships.
[ 2009 c 521 § 198.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.005 - Short title.

RCW 89.16.005
Short title.
This chapter shall be known and cited as the "State Reclamation Act".
[ 1919 c 158 § 1; RRS § 3004.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 89.16.010
Declaration of purpose.
The object of this chapter is to provide for the reclamation and development of such lands in the state of Washington as shall be determined to be suitable and economically available for reclamation and development as agricultural lands, and the state of Washington in the exercise of its sovereign and police powers declares the reclamation of such lands to be a state purpose and necessary to the public health, safety and welfare of its people.
[ 1972 ex.s. c 51 § 1; 1919 c 158 § 2; RRS § 3005.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.020 - Reclamation account created—Composition.

RCW 89.16.020
Reclamation account created—Composition.
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter the state reclamation revolving account, heretofore established and hereinafter called the reclamation account, shall consist of all sums appropriated thereto by the legislature; all gifts made to the state therefor and the proceeds of the sale thereof; the proceeds of the sale or redemption of and the interest earned by securities acquired with the moneys thereof; and all reimbursements for moneys advanced for the payment of assessments upon public lands of the state for the improvement thereof. Moneys in the reclamation account may be invested by the state treasurer pursuant to RCW 43.84.080.
[ 2012 c 187 § 9; 1973 1st ex.s. c 40 § 1; 1972 ex.s. c 51 § 2; 1959 c 104 § 2. Prior: 1919 c 158 § 4, part; RRS § 3007, part.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement › Chapter 89.16 - Reclamation by State. › 89.16.040 - Payments from account—Reclamation districts specified—Rehabilitation of existing projects.

RCW 89.16.040
Payments from account—Reclamation districts specified—Rehabilitation of existing projects.
From the moneys appropriated from the reclamation account there shall be paid, upon vouchers approved by the director of ecology, the administrative expenses of the director under this chapter and such amounts as are found necessary for the investigation and survey of reclamation projects proposed to be financed in whole or in part by the director, and such amounts as may be authorized by him or her for the reclamation of lands in diking, diking improvement, drainage, drainage improvement, diking and drainage, diking and drainage improvement, irrigation and irrigation improvement districts, and such other districts as are authorized by law for the reclamation or development of waste or undeveloped lands or the rehabilitation of existing reclamation projects, and all such districts and improvement districts shall, for the purposes of this chapter be known as reclamation districts.
[ 2013 c 23 § 555; 1981 c 216 § 2; 1972 ex.s. c 51 § 3; 1959 c 104 § 4. Prior: 1919 c 158 § 4, part; RRS § 3007, part.]