(1) The department acting under WAC
222-22-040(2) or
forest landowner acting under WAC
222-22-040(3)
may assemble a level 2 resource assessment team either to begin a watershed
analysis at a level 2 resource assessment or to review the level 1 resource
assessment on a WAU. The level 2 team shall consist of specialists qualified
under WAC
222-22-030(1).
Each level 2 team shall include persons qualified in the disciplines indicated
as necessary in the methodology, and should generally include a person or
persons qualified in the following:
(a)
Forestry;
(b) Forest
hydrology;
(c) Forest soil science
or geology;
(d) Fisheries
science;
(e)
Geomorphology;
(f) Cultural
anthropology; and
(g) Archaeology.
Any owner, and any cooperating group of owners, of ten percent
or more of the nonfederal forest land acreage in the WAU and any affected
Indian tribe shall be entitled to designate one qualified member of the team at
its own expense. The cultural resources module must include the participation
of the affected Indian tribe(s). See board manual section 11, J. Cultural
Resources Module, Introduction, 1) Using this methodology in formal
watershed analysis.
(2) The level 2 team shall perform an
assessment of the WAU utilizing the methodology, indices of resource condition,
and checklist set forth in the manual in accordance with the following:
(a) If a level 1 assessment has not been
conducted under WAC
222-22-050, the assessment team
shall complete the tasks required under WAC
222-22-050(2),
except that the level 2 team shall not rate any likelihood of adverse change
and deliverability or resource vulnerability as indeterminate.
(b) If the level 2 team has been assembled to
review a level 1 assessment, the level 2 team shall, notwithstanding its
optional review of all or part of the level 1 assessment, review each
likelihood of adverse change and deliverability and resource vulnerability
rated as indeterminate and shall revise each indeterminate rating to low,
medium, or high and shall revise the map of the WAU accordingly.
(3) Within sixty days of mailing
notice under WAC
222-22-040(4)
where a watershed analysis begins with a level 2 assessment or within sixty
days of beginning a level 2 assessment after completion of a level 1
assessment, the level 2 team shall submit to the department its draft level 2
assessment, which shall consist of the map of the WAU and the causal mechanism
report.
(4) The level 2 team shall
endeavor to produce a consensus report. If the level 2 team is unable to agree
as to one or more areas of resource sensitivity or the casual mechanism report,
alternative designations and an explanation shall be included in the draft
assessment. Where the draft level 2 assessment delivered to the department
contains alternative designations or reports, the department shall within
thirty days of the receipt of the draft level 2 assessment make its best
determination and approve that option which it concludes most accurately
reflects the proper application of the methodologies, indices of resource
condition, and checklists set forth in the manual.
