PERMANENT RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Purpose: Amend miscellaneous hydraulic project rule.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-110-035.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.047.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 04-17-013 on August 5, 2004.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: November 5, 2004.
Susan Yeager
for Will Roehl, Chair
Fish and Wildlife Commission
OTS-7070.5
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending Order 97-84, filed 6/4/97,
effective 7/5/97)
WAC 220-110-035
Miscellaneous hydraulic projects -- Permit
requirements and exemptions.
(1) Operators of mechanical or
hydraulic clam harvesters shall be required to obtain an HPA
and comply with provisions of WAC 220-52-018, and shall obtain
and comply with the provisions of the department's permit to
operate a clam harvesting machine.
(2) An activity conducted solely for the removal or control of spartina does not require an HPA. An activity conducted solely for the removal or control of purple loosestrife and which is performed with hand-held tools, hand-held equipment, or equipment carried by a person when used does not require an HPA. Any other activity conducted solely for the removal or control of aquatic noxious weeds or aquatic beneficial plants shall require either a copy of the current Aquatic Plants and Fish pamphlet HPA available from the department or an individual HPA.
(3) The installation, by hand or hand-held tools, of small scientific markers, oyster stakes, boundary markers, or property line markers does not require an HPA.
(4) Driving a vehicle or operating equipment on or across an established ford does not require an HPA. However, ford repair with equipment or construction work waterward of the ordinary high water lines requires an HPA. Driving a vehicle or operating equipment on or across wetted stream beds at areas other than established fords requires an HPA. HPAs for new fords issued subsequent to January 1995 shall require that the entry and exit points of the ford not exceed one hundred feet upstream or downstream of each other.
(5) A person conducting a remedial action under a consent decree, order, or agreed order, pursuant to chapter 70.105D RCW, and the department of ecology when it conducts a remedial action, are exempt from the procedural requirements of the Hydraulic Code. Compliance with the substantive provisions of the Hydraulic Code is required.
(6) The technical and special provisions of an individual or a pamphlet HPA shall be followed by the permit holder, equipment operator(s), and other individuals conducting the project.
(7) The legislature expressed the intent in RCW 76.09.030(2) for closer integration of the forest practices and hydraulics permitting processes. Pursuant to chapter 76.09 RCW, the forest practices board has adopted rules that include fish protection measures normally included in hydraulic project approvals for projects in nonfish bearing waters. Based on the fish protection measures contained in chapters 222-16, 222-24 and 222-30 WAC, and fish protection measures contained in the forest practices board manual described in WAC 222-12-090, forest practices, as defined in chapter 76.09 RCW, conducted under an approved forest practices application or notification issued by the department of natural resources, and conducted in or across type Np or Ns waters as defined in WAC 222-16-030 (Type 4 or Type 5 Waters, respectively, as defined in WAC 222-16-031), do not require an HPA.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 97-13-001 (Order 97-84), § 220-110-035, filed 6/4/97, effective 7/5/97; 94-23-058 (Order 94-160), § 220-110-035, filed 11/14/94, effective 12/15/94.]