Washington Administrative Code › Title 220 - Fish and Wildlife, Department of › FISH › Chapter 220-351 - Commercial fisheries-Permits/licensing › Section 220-351-060 - Ranking and acceptance of salmon purse seine license offers

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) All salmon
				purse seine licenses will be ranked based upon participation in the Puget Sound
				summer and fall salmon fisheries.
(2) Purse seine rankings will be based upon a
				point system (0-15) for landings in the months of July and August (summer
				fisheries) and/or the months of September, October, and November (fall
				fisheries) between 1994 and 1998. One point will be assigned for a verified
				landing during the fall fisheries and two points will be assigned for a
				verified landing during the summer fisheries or a maximum of fifteen points
				possible.
(3) Points will be
				assigned only if the current license owner and program applicant also landed
				salmon on that same license some time during the 1994-1998 qualifying period
				except upon the death of the licensee, the license shall be treated as
				analogous to personal property for purposes of calculating and assigning points
				in the program. A license transferred to an immediate family member during or
				after the period 1994-1998, and who has continued with that license shall be
				able to count the points for that license and shall be qualified to participate
				in the program.
(4) Example: A
				current license owner makes a landing on the license in August and October of
				each year from 1994 to 1998. The owner is assigned the maximum fifteen points
				possible. If landings were only made in August 1994 and October 1998, then the
				owner would be assigned three points.
(5) Landings will be documented on official
				Washington state fish-receiving tickets or computer-generated landing lists
				certified by the department to be true and correct copies of Washington fish
				receiving tickets.
(6) In the event
				that two or more applicants have the same number of points, a random draw shall
				be conducted to rank the applicants among themselves before placing them into
				the overall rank order.
(7) The
				ranking will continue until all applicants have been rank-ordered. The order of
				ranking will apply to all phases of the program.
(8)
Persons selected
based upon
				the rank order and the available funds will be notified by the department that
				a license offer has been accepted by registered mail to the address provided on
				the offer form. The enclosed acknowledgment sent with the acceptance letter
				must be signed and returned to the department within twenty days of the
				department's mailing date. Any acknowledgment received after the twenty-day
				period is void and the acceptance will be withdrawn. Final rankings of all
				licenses will be available upon request to applicants when all appeals have
				been settled.
(9)
Persons not
				selected
in Phase 1 will be sent an acceptance by mail to the address
				provided on the offer form that their ranking will continue to apply for Phase
				2 and Phase 3 when they should occur.
(10) Persons who apply after 5:00 p.m. on May
				11, 2001, will be ranked at the bottom of the ranked list in the order that the
				applications were received. They are not eligible to participate in Phase 1.
				Applications received on a single day will be ranked by random draw.
(11) Persons who wish to appeal their ranking
				must appeal within twenty days of the mailing date of the registered letter of
				acceptance. Any appeal received after the twenty-day period is void and the
				ranking will stand. Appeals will be referred to an adjudicative proceeding for
				resolution.
(12) The department
				will tender the amount of the offer upon receipt of a valid acknowledgment and
				upon resolution of all appeals that affect the ranking of licenses to be
				purchased.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 77.12.047. 01-10-031 (Order 01-66), §
											220-95-027, filed 4/24/01,
					 effective 5/25/01. Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 98-20-052 (Order
					 98-206), §
											220-95-027, filed 10/1/98,
					 effective 11/1/98; 95-07-012 (Order 95-20), §
											220-95-027, filed 3/3/95,
					 effective 4/3/95.