During the December committee week, the Hirst Decision will the subject of a public hearing during a joint Agricultural and Natural Resources and Local Government committees meeting. The Hirst Decision will force Whatcom County to take into consideration the cumulative effects of so-called permit exempt wells.
The public hearing will be held on Thursday, December 1 at 1:30 p.m. in House Hearing Room B of the John L. O’Brien Building.
HB 2616 (Concerning watershed management actions by watershed improvement districts) will be heard in public hearing on Monday, January 25 at 1:30 p.m. in the House Committee on Environment. The hearing will be held in house hearing room B of the O’Brien Building.
The Senate Energy, Environment & Telecommunications committee will hold a work session on the fish consumption rate this Thursday at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be held in Senate Hearing Room 4 in the Cherberg Building. You can find the agenda here.
The House Capital Budget committee will have a work session on “Potential impact of United States of America v. State of Washington (Culvert Case) on the capital budget” on Friday April 12. The session will be part of a meeting that starts at 8 a.m. in House Hearing Room B in the John L. O’Brien Building.
Agenda items will be posted here when they are available.
The House Environment committee will meet on November 30 at 1:30 p.m. to discuss the fish consumption rate, among other issues. The hearing will be held in House Hearing Rm C of the John L. O’Brien Building. Read the entire agenda here.
Representatives from the treaty tribes in western Washington testified yesterday in the Senate committee on Energy, Natural Resources and Marine Waters.
Billy Frank, Jr., chairman of the NWIFC:
Jim Peters (Squaxin Island Tribe), Dave Herrera (Skokomish Tribe) and Phil Rigdon (Yakama Tribe).
The special legislative session will start next week and several committees have already set meetings. Here are the committee meetings dealing with natural resources issues.
Local Infrastructure Financing Tool (LIFT) program update.
Local Revitalization Financing (LRF) program update.
Modernizing infrastructure assistance.
2. Streamlining the decision-making process for select economic recovery projects:
Overview of issue and potential legislation.
Office of Regulatory Assistance.
Environmental community perspective.
State and local government agency perspective.
Agriculture & Natural Resources December 2, 8 a.m.
House Hearing Rm A, John L. O’Brien Building
Work Session:
1. Agricultural production: Considerations for a state meat inspection program.
2. Update of the recently initiated Tier Two Forest Health Warning.
The House General Government Appropriations & Oversight Committee recently held a hearing on natural resources agency consolidation. You can view that hearing in the window below:
The House Committee on General Government Appropriations & Oversight will discuss the “natural resources consolidation proposals from the 2011 legislative session” as part of their meeting on Wednesday, October 19.
The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. in theSenate Hearing Rm 1 of the J.A. Cherberg Building in Olympia. Here is the agenda.