EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Date of Adoption: January 28, 1999.
Purpose: Delay implementation of permanent rule filed in WSR 99-01-154.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 220-52-050, 220-88B-010, 220-88B-020, 220-88B-030, 220-88B-040, and 220-88B-050.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 75.08.080.
Under RCW 34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that state or federal law or federal rule or a federal deadline for state receipt of federal funds requires immediate adoption of a rule.
Reasons for this Finding: RCW 75.30.230 requires notification to the standing committees of the House of Representatives and Senate dealing with fisheries issues thirty days before the effective date of a rule designating an emerging commercial fishery. The department adopted the rule designating the ocean spot shrimp as an emerging commercial fishery on December 22, 1998, to be effective January 22, 1999. Notice to the standing committees was inadvertently delayed, and not mailed until January 26, 1999. This rule suspends the emerging commercial fishery for ocean spot shrimp through February 25, 1999, being thirty days after the notification was sent to the committees.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 3, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Immediately.
January 28, 1998 [1999]
J. P. Koenings
Director
The following sections of the Washington Administrative Code are repealed immediately
through February 25, 1999:
| WAC 220-52-050 | Shrimp fishery--Coastal waters. (98-257) |
| WAC 220-88B-010 | Emerging commercial fishery--Coastal--Purpose. (98-257) |
| WAC 220-88B-020 | Designation of the coastal spot shrimp pot fishery and coastal shrimp trawl as emerging commercial fishery. (98-257) |
| WAC 220-88B-030 | Emerging commercial fishery--Eligibility for coastal experimental fishery permits--Terms and conditions of use--Renewal. (98-257) |
| WAC 220-88B-040 | Coastal spot shrimp pot experimental fishery--Season and gear--Species restriction. (98-257) |
| WAC 220-88B-050 | Coastal spot shrimp trawl experimental fishery--Season and gear--Trawl gear restriction--Pot gear restriction--Species restriction. (98-257) |