Legislation I have introduced into the record in

2009
 

 

I am currently collecting "Letters of Support" and

trying to develop 5 regional confrences to include

the news agencies, Washington State Economic

Development Professionals, Government Officials,

Business Professionals, workers, and the

Unemployed looking for jobs! 

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BILL REQUEST - CODE REVISER'S OFFICE

BILL REQ. #: H-2196.1/09
 

 

ATTY/TYPIST: ML:cro

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Requesting support for the Columbia Basin

Project.

 

  1 TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE

UNITED STATES, AND

 

2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF

THE HOUSE OF

 

3 REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE

 

4 UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE

HONORABLE CHRISTINE O.

 

5 GREGOIRE, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

6 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives

of

 

7 the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled,

respectfully

 

8 represent and petition as follows:

 

9 WHEREAS, The Columbia Basin Project stores and carries water

for

 

10 irrigation, produces electricity, controls floods, provides

recreation,

 

11 and regulates streamflow, as well as provides water for cities,

 

12 industries, navigation, and endangered species;

and

 

13 WHEREAS, The Columbia Basin Project has successfully

distributed

 

14 enough irrigation water for approximately 650,000 acres of

agricultural

 

15 lands between Grand Coulee and the Qu ad Cities;

and

 

16 WHEREAS, The United States Bureau of Reclamation is

studying the

 

17 potential for building the second half, or "Phase II," of the

Columbia

 

18 Basin Project, extending irrigation water into portions of the

Odessa

 

19 Subarea;                         

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NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the

 

2 President and Congress support the vitally important Columbia

Basin

 

3 Project and direct the United States Bureau of Reclamation to

continue

 

4 its study and implementation of "Phase II" of the Columbia River

Basin

 

5 Project. More directly, your Memorialists request that President

Obama

 

6 and Governor Gregoire draft and sign Executive Orders designed

to

7 outline a Joint Venture Agreement between President Obama's

 

8 Administration and the Gregoire Administration to:

(1) Finance Phase

 

 

9 II of the Columbia Basin Project; (2) finance the remainder of

 

those

 

10 canals and reservoirs held within the East High Canal Project

as

 

11 originally designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration;

(3) due

 

12 to the economic conditions of today's economic crisis, request

that all

 

13 funding options be mandated for review by the state and federal

 

14 governments; and (4) due to the economic conditions of our

nation,

 

15 request a "Fast Track" approach to this project being reviewed

and

 

16 adhered to.

 

17 BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately

 

18 transmitted to the Honorable Barack Obama, President of the

United

 

19 States, the Honorable Christine O. Gregoire, Governor of the

State of

 

20 Washington, the President of the United States Senate, the

Speaker of

 

21 the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress

from the

 

22 State of Washington.   

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H-1881.1 HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4012

State of Washington 61st Legislature 2009 Regular Session

By Representatives Blake and Warnick

Read first time 02/13/09. Referred to Committee on Agriculture &

Natural Resources.
 

 

1 TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF

THE UNITED

 

2 STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE

SPEAKER OF

 

3 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE

AND HOUSE OF

 

 

4 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS

 

ASSEMBLED:

 

5 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of

 

6 Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative

 

7 session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as

 

8 follows:

 

9 WHEREAS, The Columbia Basin Project stores and carries

 

10 water for irrigation, produces electricity, controls floods,

 

11 provides recreation, and regulates streamflow, as well as 11

provides water for cities, industries, navigation,

 

12 endangered species;

and

 

13 WHEREAS, The Columbia Basin Project has successfully

 

14 distributed enough irrigation water for approximately 650,000

 

15 acres of agricultural lands between Grand Coulee and the Quad

 

 

16 Cities; and

 

 

17 WHEREAS, The United States Bureau of Reclamation is

 

 

18 studying potential for building the second half, or "Phase

 

 

19 II,” of the Columbia Basin Project, extending irrigation

 

20 water into portions of the Odessa Subarea;

 

21 NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that

 

22 the President and Congress support the vitally important

 

23 Columbia Basin.

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1 Project and direct the United States Bureau of Reclamation to

 

2 continue its study and implementation of "Phase II" of the

 

3 Columbia River Basin Project. More directly we request

 

4 President Obama and Governor Gregoire draft and sign

 

5 Executive Orders designed to outline a Joint Venture

 

 

6 Agreement between President Obama’s Administration and the

 

 

7 Gregoire Administration to;

 

8 A. Finance Phase II of the Columbia Basin Project

 

9 B. Finance the remainder those future canals, and reservoirs

 

10 held within the East High Canal Project as originally

 

11 designed by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration.

 

12 C. Due to the Economic Conditions of Today’s Economic

 

13 Crisis, We request that all funding options be mandated

 

 

14 for review, by the State and Federal Governments.

 

 

15 D. Due to the Economic Conditions of OUR Nation we request

 

 

16 a “Fast Track” approach to this project be reviewed and

 

 

 

17 Adhered too!

 

 

 

18 BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be

 

 

19 immediately transmitted to the Honorable Barack Obama,

 

 

20 President of the United States, the President of the United

 

 

 

21 States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,

 

 

22 and each member of Congress from the State of Washington.

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