(1) Upon receipt
of the recommended prescriptions and management strategies resulting from a
level 1 assessment under WAC
222-22-050, a level 2 assessment under WAC
222-22-060, or a reanalysis under WAC
222-22-090, the
department shall select
prescriptions. The
department shall circulate the draft
watershed analysis to
the departments of ecology and
fish and
wildlife, affected Indian tribes, local
governmental entities, forest landowners in the WAU, and the public for review
and comment. The prescriptions recommended by the field managers' team shall be
given substantial weight. Within thirty days of receipt of the recommended
prescriptions and management strategies, the
department shall review comments,
revise the
watershed analysis as appropriate, and approve or disapprove the
watershed analysis for the WAU.
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(2) The department should notify any governmental
agency or Indian tribe having jurisdiction over activities which are not
regulated under chapter 76.09 RCW but which are identified in the draft
analysis as having a potential for an adverse impact on identified fish, water,
capital improvements of the state or its political subdivisions, or cultural
resources.
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(3) The
department
shall approve the draft
watershed analysis unless it finds:
(a) For any level 1 assessment or level 2
assessment, that:
(i) The team failed in a
material respect to apply the methodology, indices of resource condition, or
checklists set forth in the manual; or
(ii) A team meeting the criteria promulgated
by the department and using the defined methodologies, indices of resource
conditions, and checklists set forth in the manual could not reasonably have
come to the conclusions identified in the draft level 1 or level 2 assessment;
and
(b) The prescriptions
will not accomplish the purposes and policies of this chapter and chapter 76.09
RCW.
(c) In making its findings
under this subsection, the
department shall take into account its ability to
revise assessments under WAC
222-22-090.
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(4) If the department disapproves the draft watershed
analysis, it shall set forth in writing a detailed explanation of the reasons
for its disapproval.
(5) To become
final under subsection (1) of this section, all watershed analyses must be
reviewed under SEPA on a nonproject basis. SEPA review may take place
concurrently with the public review in subsection (1) of this section. See WAC
222-10-035.
(6) As of July 1, 2011:
(a) Existing interim or draft prescriptions
will expire; and
(b) A new draft
watershed analysis or reanalysis will expire if the requirements in subsections
(1) and (5) of this section are not met.
These expirations sunset the draft watershed analysis for the
WAU and do not require SEPA review. The department shall notify the landowners
in the WAU that the watershed analysis has expired.
(7) The department will not review or approve
cultural resource management strategies because their implementation is
voluntary.
