§ 90.71.010 Definitions
§ 90.71.060 Puget Sound assessment and monitoring program
§ 90.71.110 Puget Sound scientific research account
§ 90.71.200 Findings — Intent
§ 90.71.210 Puget Sound partnership — Created
§ 90.71.220 Leadership council — Membership
§ 90.71.230 Leadership council — Powers and duties
§ 90.71.240 Executive director — Appointment — Authority
§ 90.71.250 Ecosystem coordination board — Membership — Duties
§ 90.71.260 Development of the action agenda — Integration of watershed programs and ecosystem-level plans
§ 90.71.270 Science panel — Creation — Membership
§ 90.71.280 Science panel — Duties
§ 90.71.290 Science panel — Strategic science program — Puget Sound science update — Quadrennial science work plan
§ 90.71.300 Action agenda — Goals and objectives
§ 90.71.310 Action agenda — Development — Elements revision and updates
§ 90.71.320 Action agenda — Biennial budget requests
§ 90.71.330 Funding from partnership — Accountability
§ 90.71.340 Fiscal accountability — Fiscal incentives and disincentives for implementation of the action agenda
§ 90.71.350 Accountability for achieving and implementing action agenda — Noncompliance
§ 90.71.360 Limitations on authority
§ 90.71.370 Report to the governor and legislature — State of the Sound report — Review of programs
§ 90.71.380 Assessment of basin-wide restoration progress
§ 90.71.390 Performance audits of the partnership
§ 90.71.400 Puget Sound recovery account
§ 90.71.410 Lake Whatcom phosphorus loading demonstration program
§ 90.71.420 Report to the legislature
§ 90.71.430 Environmental justice obligations of the Puget Sound partnership
§ 90.71.904 Transfer of powers, duties, and functions — References to chair of the Puget Sound action team
§ 90.71.907 Effective date — 2007 c 341
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