WRIA 62 WMP 032305 - Washington State Department of Ecology

March, 2005 -105- 023-1289-003.3040
WRIA 62 WMP 032305
o Recommendations for finding funding for new or existing projects (Noted in the
tables below as funding);
o Recommendations for data gathering, data management, and/or project planning
(Noted in the tables below as study); and,
o Recommendations for public education and/or research. (Noted in the tables below
as public education).
• Recommendations that call for enforcement of existing regulations or continuation of existing
programs that have undergone SEPA review at the initiation of the regulation or program and
would not require further review at this time. (Noted in the tables below as continue
existing).
• Recommended actions that involve review or revision of existing ordinances
/policies/programs will go through a SEPA review process during adoption of the revised
ordinance/policy/program, therefore these are not subject to individual SEPA alternative
statements at this time. However, SEPA alternatives in the statewide programmatic
Watershed Planning EIS may also apply to these recommended actions based on the
anticipated revisions or changes to the existing ordinances/policies/programs. (Noted in the
tables below as other SEPA).
• Actions that require rule-making are not expected to comply with SEPA at this time, as they
will undergo a separate SEPA review process lead by the State at the time that the rule is
made. (Noted in the tables below as State SEPA).
• For some actions, too little information is provided to make a SEPA judgment at this time
because the action has not been fully developed. No foreseeable impacts are evident at this
time. The action may undergo project or non-project level SEPA review at a later date or
may be covered under statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS alternatives. (Noted
in the tables below as early planning stages. Where relevant, Watershed Planning EIS
alternatives may also be listed.)
7.3.3 WRIA 62 Plan SEPA Compliance Tables
Tables 7-1 through 7-7 in the text below list each action in the WRIA 62 Plan, along with the
statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS alternative or other analysis criteria used to achieve
non-project programmatic SEPA compliance. The tables include a SEPA analysis of the
implementation actions presented in Chapter 6 of this plan (Table 7-7) as well as the actions to
address the Planning Unit’s six issue categories. The tables are included within the text so that Pend
Oreille County can use this Chapter of the Plan (Chapter 7) as supporting information to adopt the
statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS and issue a determination of significance (DS) to
meet its responsibility to prepare a SEPA compliant review of the Plan.
In some cases, more than one Watershed Planning alternative or a combination of qualifications and
assumptions and alternatives are consistent with one action. Where combinations of alternatives
and/or qualifications or assumptions are used, evidence for SEPA compliance is more robust. In a
few cases, the alternatives in the statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS are more detailed
or more fully developed than actions in the WRIA 62 Plan. Consistencies drawn between these more
fully developed statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS alternatives and Plan actions may
be helpful in achieving non-programmatic SEPA coverage for Plan actions when needed, as the
statewide programmatic Watershed Planning EIS may again be adopted in future SEPA processes.
These alternatives are noted in the tables below as (WP XX).