Washington Administrative Code › Title 222 - Forest Practices Board › Chapter 222-08 - Practices and procedures › Section 222-08-160 - Continuing review of forest practices rules

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Annual evaluations. The department, after
			 consulting with affected state agencies, Indian tribes, forest landowners, fish
			 and wildlife, natural resources, and environmental interest groups, shall
			 report annually to the forest practices board. This reporting will be an
			 assessment of how the rules and voluntary processes, including the Cultural
			 Resources Protection and Management Plan, as committed in the
1999
			 Forests and Fish Report
, Appendix O (O.3), are working.
(2) Adaptive management program. The adaptive
			 management program will be used to determine the effectiveness of forest
			 practices rules in aiding the state's salmon recovery effort and provide
			 recommendations to the board on proposed changes to forest practices rules to
			 meet timber industry viability and salmon recovery. The program provides
			 assurances that rules and guidance not meeting aquatic resource objectives will
			 be modified in a streamlined and timely manner. The board may also use this
			 program to adjust other forest practices rules and guidance in order to further
			 the purposes of
			 chapter
			 76.09 RCW. The specific
			 components of the adaptive management program are set forth in WAC
			 222-12-045.
(3) Resource management plans. The department
			 is directed to develop a method for cooperative voluntary resource management
			 planning among forest landowners, governmental agencies, affected Indian
			 tribes, and environmental groups which would result in the development of plans
			 which might be used as an alternative to the forest practices rules in
			 achieving the purposes and policies set forth in the act. This should be done
			 through pilot projects, at least one of which should be located on the east
			 side of the Cascade summit and one on the west side of the Cascade
			 summit.
(4) Compliance monitoring.
			 The department shall conduct compliance monitoring that addresses the following
			 key question: "Are forest practices being conducted in compliance with the
			 rules?" The department shall provide statistically sound, biennial compliance
			 audits and monitoring reports to the board for consideration and support of
			 rule and guidance analysis. Compliance monitoring shall determine whether
			 forest practices rules are being implemented on the ground. An infrastructure
			 to support compliance will include adequate compliance monitoring, enforcement,
			 training, education and budget.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  76.09.040. 08-24-011, § 222-08-160,
				  filed 11/21/08, effective 12/22/08; 05-12-119, § 222-08-160, filed
				  5/31/05, effective 7/1/05. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter
				  34.05 RCW,
				  RCW
				  76.09.040, [76.09.]050,[76.09.]370, 76.13.120(9). 01-12-042, recodified as § 222-08-160, filed 5/30/01,
				  effective 7/1/01. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				     76.09.040 and
				  chapter
				  34.05 RCW. 97-24-091,
				  § 222-08-035, filed 12/3/97, effective 1/3/98. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  76.09.040. 87-23-036 (Order 535), §
				  222-08-035, filed 11/16/87, effective
				  1/1/88.