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for fiscal year 2025, and $62,000 of the model toxics control 1 operating account—state appropriation are provided solely for a 2 geoduck task force. Of the amounts provided in this subsection, 3 $411,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal year 2024 4 and $208,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for fiscal year 5 2025 are for the department's costs for the task force, and the 6 remaining amounts are for the department to provide to the department 7 of ecology, the department of fish and wildlife, and the Puget Sound 8 partnership for their projected costs for the task force. 9 (b) The task force must investigate opportunities to reduce 10 negative impacts to tribal treaty and state geoduck harvest and 11 promote long-term opportunities to expand or sustain geoduck harvest. 12 The task force must provide a report to the commissioner of public 13 lands and the legislature, in compliance with RCW 43.01.036, by 14 December 1, 2024, that includes analysis and recommendations related 15 to the following elements: 16 (i) The feasibility of intervention to enhance the wildstock of 17 geoduck, including reseeding projects; 18 (ii) Factors that are preventing areas from being classified for 19 commercial harvest of wildstock geoduck or factors that are leading 20 to existing wildstock geoduck commercial tract classification 21 downgrade, and recommendations to sustainably and cost-effectively 22 increase the number and area of harvestable tracts, including: 23 (A) Consideration of opportunities and recommendations presented 24 in previous studies and reports; 25 (B) An inventory of wastewater treatment plant and surface water 26 runoff point sources impacting state and tribal geoduck harvesting 27 opportunities within the classified commercial shellfish growing 28 areas in Puget Sound; 29 (C) A ranking of outfalls and point sources identified in 30 (b)(ii)(B) of this subsection prioritized for future correction to 31 mitigate downgraded classification of areas with commercial geoduck 32 harvest opportunity; 33 (D) An inventory of wildstock geoduck tracts that are most 34 impacted by poor water quality or other factors impacting 35 classification; 36 (E) Consideration of the role of sediment load and urban runoff, 37 and pathways to mitigate these impacts; and 38 p. 443 ESSB 5187.SL