Case Study: Puget Sound

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Case Study Puget Sound

• Presented to House Bay Trust Study Commission
• By M. Petruny-Parker

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Overview

• Management challenges
• Management structure and process
• Funding
• Executive/legislative roles

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Puget Sound Basin

Source Puget Sound Water Quality Management
Plan, Fig. 1, Page 3
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Puget Sound Basin
Source Puget Sound Water Quality Management
Plan, Fig.1, page 3
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Puget Sound Uses

• Shipping
• Commercial and
• recreational fishing
• Aquaculture
• Boating

• Culture (tribes)
• Tourism
• Wildlife habitat
• Wastewater receptacle

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Management Challenges

• Nutrient loading
• Toxic chemicals
• Contaminated sediments
• Habitat loss
• Bacterial contamination shellfish
• Declining populations of marine species
• Aquatic nuisance species
• Numerous management entities

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Management of Puget Sound

• 1983 Legislation 21 Member Citizens Committee
• Study Puget Sound recommend how to improve
  water quality

Early 1980s Media Attention Pollution
Problems in Sound

• 1985 Legislation Puget Sound Water Quality
  Authority
• Development of comprehensive management plan

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Management of Puget Sound

• 1996 Legislation Puget Sound Action Team and
  Puget Sound Council
• Action Team Implementation of management plan
• Council advisory group to Action Team

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Management of Puget Sound

• Action Team
• Chair appointed by governor
• Members Representatives from state departments
  and agencies, cities, counties, tribes, federal
  agencies
• Coordinates activities across federal, state,
  local, international government levels and
  non-governmental group activities
• Develops work plan and budget every two years

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Management of Puget Sound

• Council
• Chair Chair of Action Team
• Members Representatives from business,
  environmental community, shellfish industry,
  agriculture, counties, cities, tribes
• Non-voting Members 2 state senators and 2
  representatives
• Advises Action Team on work plan elements,
  coordination of activities, and revisions to
  management plan

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2003-2005 Budget Summary

• 27.8 million in state and federal funding
  (proviso funds -additional 8.9 million
  non-proviso funds)
• 4.9 million Action Team
• 470,000 University of Washington
• 331,000 Washington State University
• 840,000 capital expenditures
• 4.2 million DOT funds
• Balance to state agencies

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2003-2005 Budget Summary (cont.)

• 27.8 million
• 12.3 million General Fund State
• 14.0 million Special Accounts (state)
• 1.5 million Federal funding

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Puget Sound Management Structure
State Legislature
Governor
Puget Sound Council
Action Team
(Work Plan/Budget)
Action Team Staff
State Agencies
Local Government
InternationalTask Force
Non-Government Groups
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Executive/Legislative Roles

• Legislature
• Oversight
• Identifies scope of work to be done and procedure
• Fiscal decisions
• Performance assessment

• Executive
• Implementation
• Establishes implementation team
• Develops, prioritizes, coordinates, carries out
  work plan elements