WRIA 62 WMP 032305 - Washington State Department of Ecology

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• WP 45 – Request the Washington Department of Transportation, local governments, or other
applicable agencies to remove or replace bridges, culverts, roadways, and other infrastructure
as necessary to eliminate or reduce their impacts as fish passage obstructions and/or channel
constrictions.
• WP 46 – Support construction of fish passage facilities where such facilities do not currently
exist.
• WP 47 – Implement habitat improvement projects involving out-of-stream riparian
restoration or enhancement such as replanting or bank stabilization projects. Bioengineering
methodologies should be incorporated into bank stabilization projects.
• WP 48 – Move river dikes back from existing river channels to allow for floodplain
restoration and channel maintenance.
• WP 50 – Request local governments to develop regulations or programs to control sources of
sediment that are not addressed through critical areas ordinances or other existing regulations
and programs.
• WP 51 – Request local governments to integrate habitat improvement planning into flood
hazard reduction plans.
• WP 52 – Request conservation districts and irrigation districts to assist in achieving
protection of habitat including, as appropriate, establishment and maintenance of riparian
buffers and control of erosion and sedimentation.
• WP 53 – Request local, state, and federal governments, conservation districts, and private
entities to acquire land and/or conservation easements for purposes of protecting habitat.
• WP 56 – Support implementation of the recommendations of Washington’s Forest and Fish
Report.
7.3.2 Other SEPA Assumptions and Qualifications
During the SEPA gap analysis, a number of recommended actions in the WRIA 62 Plan were found
that are not described explicitly by alternatives in the statewide programmatic Watershed Planning
EIS. However, it was determined that all of the actions not explicitly covered by the statewide
programmatic Watershed Planning EIS either do not have adverse environmental impacts or do not
require additional SEPA coverage at the programmatic level for reasons based on the qualifications
listed in the bullets below. Therefore an additional EIS is not required. The qualifications and
assumptions used to make this determination are provided below.
The following are the qualifications and assumptions that are not specifically discussed in the
statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS that are relevant to the WRIA 62 Plan:
• Recommended actions that do not have a foreseeable “adverse environmental impact” do not
require a SEPA alternative, or a statement of SEPA compliance. The following types of
actions are listed in the WRIA 62 Plan and are not expected to have an adverse environmental
impact:
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o Recommendations for methods of coordination between interest groups and
developing work strategies (Noted in the tables below as collaboration);
o Recommended actions for convening interest/stakeholder groups (Noted in the tables
below as collaboration);