Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-145 - Administration of the flood control assistance account program › Section 173-145-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions are
				used:
(1) "Applicant." An eligible
			 municipal corporation seeking matching funds for flood control maintenance
			 work.
(2) "Appropriate local
			 authority." A county, city, or town that has planning and land use jurisdiction
			 within a given area that is covered by the comprehensive flood control
			 management plan.
(3)
			 "Certification." Certification is the written confirmation between ecology and
			 the appropriate local authority and the county engineer who verifies the
			 understanding as to what the comprehensive flood control management plan will
			 contain, the timing and anticipated product, and a reporting schedule that will
			 allow for ecology review and input during the plan development.
(4) "Comprehensive flood control management
			 plan (CFCMP)." A document that determines the need for flood control work,
			 considers alternatives to in-stream flood control work, identifies and
			 considers potential impacts of in-stream flood control work on the state's
			 in-stream resources, and identifies the river's meander belt or floodway, as
			 described in WAC
			 173-145-040.
(5) "County engineer." The appointed public
			 works director, county engineer, or the person designated to act for the county
			 engineer.
(6) "Eligible municipal
			 corporation." Counties, cities, towns, conservation districts, flood control
			 zone districts, or any special districts subject to flood conditions.
(7) "Emergency fund." That portion of the
			 biennial appropriation allocated to the flood control assistance account which
			 is set aside for emergency projects.
(8) "Emergency project." Flood control work
			 necessary for reasons declared by the appropriate local authority and as
			 authorized and approved by ecology that must be done immediately to protect
			 lives or property.
(9) "Flood
			 compatible land uses." Those uses of the land within the river's meander belt
			 or floodway which comply with the minimum state, federal, and local flood plain
			 management rule requirements.
(10)
			 "Flood plain management activities." Activities described in WAC
			 173-145-050 performed by local
			 governments through ordinances or other means to reduce the damaging effects of
			 flooding.
(11) "Floodway." The
			 channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must
			 be reserved in order to discharge the base (one hundred year frequency) flood
			 without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a
			 designated height.
(12)
			 "Maintenance project." The work necessary to preserve or restore the natural
			 condition or to restore man-made flood control facilities to their former
			 condition using in-kind replacement materials or acceptable alternatives. This
			 work is necessary due to anticipated or actual damage or destruction from
			 flooding by action of erosion, stream flow, sheet runoff, or other damages by
			 the sea or other bodies of water.
(13) "Meander belt." That portion of the
			 flood plain, that can be identified by the evidence of present and previous
			 meanders. This includes the present stream channel. Where there is no
			 identified floodway, that area which is floodprone and has similar topographic
			 characteristics to present and historic stream channels is considered as a
			 meander belt.
(14) "Public
			 benefit." Benefit to the health, safety, or general welfare of the citizens of
			 the state or community at large that results from a flood control project or
			 plan, or some benefit by which their rights or liabilities are affected such as
			 an effect on public property or facilities owned or maintained by an eligible
			 municipal corporation.
(15)
			 "Special district." A district as defined in chapter 85.38 RCW that is either
			 a:
(a) Diking district;
(b) Drainage district;
(c) Diking, drainage, and/or sewerage
			 improvement district;
(d)
			 Intercounty diking and drainage district;
(e) Consolidated diking district, drainage
			 district, diking improvement district, and/or drainage improvement district;
			 or
(f) Flood control
			 district.