Drafter
Clerk 09/22/2017
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to extending the expiration date of the Vashon-Maury Island groundwater protection committee; and amending Ordinance 14214, Section 8, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.14.070.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 14214, Section 8, as amended and K.C.C. 9.14.070 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. The Vashon-Maury Island groundwater protection committee is hereby created and shall continue in existence until December 31, ((2017)) 2022.
B. The committee members shall be selected from within the Vashon-Maury island groundwater management plan area and shall consist of the following:
1. Three representatives who are Vashon-Maury island residents;
2. One representative from water purveyors;
3. One representative from interests representing water supply or wastewater management;
4. One representative from residential exempt well owners;
5. One representative from island commercial and industrial interests;
6. One representative from commercial agriculturists;
7. One livestock owner; and
8. One representative from local environmental organizations.
C. The county shall invite each of the tribal nations with federally recognized rights within the Vashon-Maury island groundwater management area to recommend candidates for the committee. The committee shall include a representative from each tribal nation with federally recognized rights within the Vashon-Maury island groundwater management area, if the tribal nation provides to the county a candidate for appointment to the committee.
D. Each county abutting the Vashon-Maury island groundwater management plan area boundary shall be requested to provide to the county a candidate for appointment to the committee on an advisory, nonvoting basis.
E. The Seattle-King County department of public health and the Washington state departments of Ecology and Health shall be requested to provide to...
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