Washington § 90.58.160 - Prohibition against seabed mining for hard minerals and surface drilling for oil or gas, where.

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§ 90.58.160. Prohibition against seabed mining for hard minerals and surface drilling for oil or gas, where.

(1) Seabed mining for hard minerals and surface drilling for oil or gas is prohibited in the waters of Puget Sound north to the Canadian boundary and the Strait of Juan de Fuca seaward from the ordinary high water mark and on all lands within one thousand feet landward from said mark.
(2)(a) For purposes of this section, "hard minerals" means natural deposits of valuable minerals including, but not limited to, metals and placer deposits of metals, nonmetallic minerals, gemstones, ores, sediments, gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, manganese, silica, chrome, platinum, tungsten, zirconium, titanium, garnet, and phosphorus.
(b) "Hard minerals" does not include rock, gravel, sand, silt, coal, or hydrocarbons.
[ 2021 c 181 s 3; 1971 ex.s. c 286 s 16.]

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