Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-26 - State master program approval/amendment procedures and master program guidelines › Section 173-26-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
In addition to the definitions and concepts set forth in
				RCW
				90.58.030, as amended, and the other
				implementing rules for the Washington State Shoreline Management Act, as used
				herein, the following words and phrases shall have the following
				meanings:
(1) "Act" means the
			 Washington State Shoreline Management Act, chapter 90.58 RCW.
(2) "Adoption by rule" means an official
			 action by the department to make a local government shoreline master program
			 effective through rule consistent with the requirements of the Administrative
			 Procedure Act, chapter 34.05 RCW, thereby incorporating the adopted shoreline
			 master program or amendment into the state master program.
(3)
(a)
			 "Agricultural activities" means agricultural uses and practices including, but
			 not limited to: Producing, breeding, or increasing agricultural products;
			 rotating and changing agricultural crops; allowing land used for agricultural
			 activities to lie fallow in which it is plowed and tilled but left unseeded;
			 allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant as a result of
			 adverse agricultural market conditions; allowing land used for agricultural
			 activities to lie dormant because the land is enrolled in a local, state, or
			 federal conservation program, or the land is subject to a conservation
			 easement; conducting agricultural operations; maintaining, repairing, and
			 replacing agricultural equipment; maintaining, repairing, and replacing
			 agricultural facilities, provided that the replacement facility is no closer to
			 the shoreline than the original facility; and maintaining agricultural lands
			 under production or cultivation;
(b) "Agricultural products" includes, but is
			 not limited to, horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, vegetable, fruit,
			 berry, grain, hops, hay, straw, turf, sod, seed, and apiary products; feed or
			 forage for livestock; Christmas trees; hybrid cottonwood and similar hardwood
			 trees grown as crops and harvested within twenty years of planting; and
			 livestock including both the animals themselves and animal products including,
			 but not limited to, meat, upland finfish, poultry and poultry products, and
			 dairy products;
(c) "Agricultural
			 equipment" and "agricultural facilities" includes, but is not limited to:
(i) The following used in agricultural
			 operations: Equipment; machinery; constructed shelters, buildings, and ponds;
			 fences; upland finfish rearing facilities; water diversion, withdrawal,
			 conveyance, and use equipment and facilities including, but not limited to,
			 pumps, pipes, tapes, canals, ditches, and drains;
(ii) Corridors and facilities for
			 transporting personnel, livestock, and equipment to, from, and within
			 agricultural lands;
(iii) Farm
			 residences and associated equipment, lands, and facilities; and
(iv) Roadside stands and on-farm markets for
			 marketing fruit or vegetables; and
(d) "Agricultural land" means those specific
			 land areas on which agricultural activities are conducted.