WASHINGTON WATER LAW

Conference in Detail
Day 1 - Thursday, June 1
(For Day 2 agenda, click here)

Recent Developments
8:30	INTRODUCTION TO 21ST CENTURY WATER LAW AND POLICY	Charles W.Lean, Esq. Program Co-Chair Perkins Coie,LLP Olympia,WA Joe Mentor, Jr., Esq. Program Co-Chair Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson Seattle,WA
8:45	RECENT DECISIONS OF THE COURTS AND THE PCHB	Joe Mentor,Jr., Esq. Program Co-Chair Alan M.Reichman, Esq. Washington State Attorney General ’s Office Olympia,WA
9:45	EXEMPT WELLS	Bill Clarke, Esq. Washington Association of REALTORS Olympia,WA
10:15	BREAK
10:30	THEODORATUS REVISITED If you are a city, PUD, or other utility with a "pumps and pipes" water rights certificate, what do you have? Ecology's proposed Theodoratus policy;implications for municipal water rights	Adam Gravley, Esq. Preston Gates & Ellis,LLP Seattle,WA
11:00	CHANGES DURING THE 2000 LEGISLATURE; 2001 AND BEYOND	The Hon. Gary Chandler Washington State House of Representatives Olympia,WA Kathleen Collins, Esq. Olympia,WA Judy Turpin Washington Environmental Council Olympia, WA
12:00	LUNCH (ON YOUR OWN)
Water Law for the Practitioner
1:30	A PANEL DISCUSSION ON WATER RIGHTS AND REALLOCATION Water Changes and Transfers Overview	Joe Mentor, Jr., Esq. Program Co-Chair Moderator Sarah E. Mack, Esq. Stoel Rives,LLP Seattle,WA County Water Conservancy Board Bill Smith Thurston County Water Conservancy Board Olympia,WA
3:15	BREAK
3:30	A PANEL DISCUSSION ON WATER RIGHTS AND REALLOCATION (cont'd) Trust Water Transfers	Patricia A. McCleary Washington Water Trust Seattle,WA
	What the Department of Ecology Looks For	Ken Slattery (inv.) Washington State Department of Ecology Olympia,WA
4:30	QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS	Members of the Faculty
4:45	NORTHWEST MICROBREW AND WINE RECEPTION	Sponsored by: Joe Mentor, Jr., Esq. Program Co-Chair Charles W. Lean, Esq. Program Co-Chair and the firm of Perkins Coie,LLP

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