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RESOLUTION q'5 , 2008
RESOLUTION 70A-08
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APPROVAL OF WATER RESOURCE INVENTORY AREA (WRIA) 20
WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLAN
THE CLALLAM COUNIY AND JEFFERSON COUNIY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS find as follows:
1. The Watershed Management Act, RCW 90.82, provides a process for locally based watershed
planning and resource management within state-defined Water Resource Inventory Areas (WRIA),
to be conducted by "Planning Units" which are to include prescribed "Initiating Governments."
2. WRIA 20 was officially initiated in 2001 by Clallam and Jefferson Counties, the City of Forks; the
Hoh, Makah, and Quileute Tribes; and Washington State represented by the Department of Ecology.
3. The Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA 20) Watershed Management Plan, approved by the
Planning Unit on August 20, 2008 encompasses over 1,000 square miles of the western Olympic
peninsula that drains into the Pacific Ocean; and recommends strategies to address water quantity,
quality, and habitat within the watershed to guide in future water resource planning for people,
streams, fish and habitat.
4 A State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) determination of non-significance which adopted the
statewide Final Environmental Impact Statement for Watershed Planning under Chapter 90.82 RCW
was issued on October 18, 2008; the final SEPA comment date was November 1, 2008.
5. RCW 90.82.130 requires the County to conduct at least one public hearing on proposed watershed
plans prior to the Board's decision for approval or remand; hearings were held in Clallam and
Jefferson Counties in September, October, and November 2008.
6. RCW 90.82.130 requires the Board of Commissioners for Clallam and Jefferson Counties to consider
the Watershed Plan for WRIA 20 after the public hearing and to decide to approve or reject the Plan.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Clallam and Jefferson County Commissioners in
consideration of the above findings of fact:
1. That the Watershed Management Plan for Water Resource Inventory Area 20 as presented by the
WRIA 20 Planning Unit is approved.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this A {J-h
day of November 2008
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BOARD OF JEFFERSON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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