House Bill 1629 - Comprehensive Study of Aerial Imaging Technology Uses

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House Bill 1629, State of Washington 67th Legislature, 2022 Regular Session, by Representatives Dolan, Wylie, Shewmake and others, prefiled December 9, 2021 and referred to the Committee on Community & Economic Development. The act relates to a comprehensive study of aerial imaging technology uses for state agencies, special purpose districts, and local and tribal governments. Section 1 states legislative findings that aerial imagery is a critically important tool and that governments using aerial imaging data are purchasing it independently. The final section directs the department of commerce to convene and define the scope of the study and requires the results to be reported to the legislature by June 1, 2023.

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     H-1769.1

                                HOUSE BILL 1629


     State of Washington       67th Legislature       2022 Regular Session

     By Representatives Dolan, Wylie, Shewmake, Duerr, Walen, and Chase

     Prefiled 12/09/21. Read first time 01/10/22.    Referred to Committee
     on Community & Economic Development.




 1       AN ACT Relating to a comprehensive study of aerial imaging
 2   technology uses for state agencies, special purpose districts, and
 3   local and tribal governments; and creating new sections.


 4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:


 5       NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. The legislature finds that aerial imagery
 6   is a critically important tool that has wide applications in making
 7   governmental decisions in a variety of settings. For example: (1) The
 8   Washington state military department uses aerial imagery for
 9   emergency management; (2) the department of transportation uses
10   aerial   imagery  for   constructing  roads   and   tracking  culvert
11   replacement and fish migration; (3) the department of ecology uses
12   aerial imagery to create a coastal atlas to monitor oil spills in the
13   ocean and changes to the Washington coastline; (4) agencies that
14   monitor growth management and zoning use aerial imagery to monitor
15   urban density and to designate and protect critical areas; (5) the
16   department of natural resources uses aerial imagery to monitor forest
17   health, riparian buffers, and timber harvest; (6) conservation
18   districts use aerial imagery to plan salmon restoration projects and
19   to assess fire and flood damage; (7) the Nisqually tribe is using
20   aerial imagery to monitor the rerouting of the Nisqually river due to
21   inadequate water passage under the Nisqually bridge; (8) local
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 1   emergency management agencies use aerial imagery for public safety
 2   efforts; (9) county assessors use aerial imagery as an integral part
 3   of their valuation activities; (10) school districts use aerial
 4   imagery to develop school safety plans and to site future buildings;
 5   (11) state universities use aerial imagery for promotional material
 6   and research purposes; (12) the emergency management division could
 7   use aerial imagery to locate damaged structures and bridges and track
 8   emergency detours; and (13) state parks could use aerial imagery to
 9   track structures on park land and for land management.
10       The legislature also finds that state, local, and tribal
11   governments that currently use aerial imaging data are purchasing it
12   independently, often resulting in multiple payments for the same data
13   to be collected. The legislature intends to commission a study to
14   assess a more cost-effective way to purchase cutting-edge aerial
15   imagery   at  the   state   level,   which  would   allow  individual
16   jurisdictions that seek aerial imagery to purchase such data from the
17   state. The legislature also intends to identify the myriad uses for
18   which state agencies, special purpose districts, and local and tribal
19   governments could benefit from having aerial imaging data to conduct
20   everyday business, protect property, assist citizens, conduct
21   emergency planning, and respond to disasters.


22       NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. (1) Subject to the availability of amounts
23   appropriated for this specific purpose, the department of commerce
24   shall conduct a study for the use of aerial imaging technology for
25   state, local, special purpose district, and tribal government
26   purposes.
27       (2) The study conducted by the department of commerce must, at a
28   minimum:
29       (a) Include an assessment of:
30       (i) The ways in which state agencies, local governments, special
31   purpose districts, and tribal governments currently use aerial
32   imaging technology;
33       (ii) The ways in which state agencies, local governments, special
34   purpose districts, and tribal governments could benefit from having
35   access to aerial imaging technology, as determined by interviewing a
36   sample of state, local, special purpose district, and tribal
37   government officials to assess expectations for aerial imaging data;
38       (iii) The types of imagery currently used or needed; and


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 1       (iv) The frequency with which various types of imagery are
 2   currently used or needed;
 3       (b) Determine the minimum resolution level of aerial imaging that
 4   would best serve the majority of users statewide;
 5       (c) Estimate the current statewide expenditures by state, local,
 6   and tribal governments, and special purpose districts, for aerial
 7   image acquisition and organization;
 8       (d) Estimate the cost of procuring, once per biennium, and
 9   administering a high-quality aerial imagery program on a statewide
10   basis;
11       (e) Quantify the economies of scale between individual flights
12   procured by individual jurisdictions as compared to the cost of
13   procuring a single flight to obtain aerial imaging of the entire
14   state;
15       (f) Determine the best available mechanism for cost sharing
16   between jurisdictions for the acquisition and management of aerial
17   imagery;
18       (g) Evaluate which organization would be the most effective to
19   act as a central repository for shared imagery, including providing a
20   secured means to share between public bodies; and
21       (h) Make recommendations about current sources that provide
22   imaging data, further steps to improve the collection of aerial
23   imaging data, and the steps necessary to implement a comprehensive,
24   cost-efficient, aerial imaging collection and distribution system to
25   serve state, local, special purpose district, and tribal officials
26   statewide.
27       (3) In conducting the study pursuant to this section, the
28   department of commerce must convene and define the scope of the study
29   and assist in the design of information collection.
30       (4) In implementing this section, the department of commerce may
31   complete the study directly or, at its discretion, contract the
32   study, or portions of the study, to a third party or parties chosen
33   by the department of commerce. However, the final delivered product
34   must be reported by the department of commerce.
35       (5) Consistent with RCW 43.01.036, the study required by this
36   section must be completed and the results reported to the legislature
37   by June 1, 2023.

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