Washington Administrative Code › Title 420 - Recreation and Conservation Office (Salmon Recovery Funding Board) › Chapter 420-04 - General › Section 420-04-010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
For purposes of Title 420 WAC, the definitions in
				RCW
				 77.85.010 apply. In addition, unless the
				context clearly indicates otherwise, the following definitions also
				apply:
"Acquisition project" means a project that purchases or
				receives a donation of fee or less than fee interests in real property. These
				interests include, but are not limited to, conservation easements, access or
				trail easements, covenants, water rights, leases, and mineral rights.
"Agreement" or "project agreement" means the accord accepted by
				the office and the sponsor for the project and includes any attachments,
				addendums, and amendments, and any intergovernmental agreements or other
				documents that are incorporated into the project agreement subject to any
				limitations on their effect.
"Applicant" means any party that meets qualifying standards as
				described in
				RCW
				 77.85.010(6), including
				deadlines, for submission of an application soliciting a grant of funds from
				the board.
"Application" means the documents and other materials that an
				applicant submits to the office to support the applicant's request for grant
				funds.
"Board" means the salmon recovery funding board as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.110.
"Capacity funding" is a grant to lead entities and regional
				organizations as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.130(4) to assist in
				carrying out functions to implement chapter 77.85 RCW.
"Chair" means the chair of the board described in
				RCW
				 77.85.110.
"Citizens committee" means a committee established by a lead
				entity that consists of representative interests of counties, cities,
				conservation districts, tribes, environmental groups, business interests,
				landowners, citizens, volunteer groups, regional fish enhancement groups, and
				other habitat interests as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.050.
"Director" means the director of the office or that person's
				designee, as described in
				RCW
				 79A.25.150.
"Enhancement project" or "hatchery and harvest enhancement
				project" means a project that supports hatchery reform to improve hatchery
				effectiveness to minimize impacts to wild fish populations, ensure
				compatibility between hatchery production and salmon recovery programs, or
				support sustainable fisheries.
"Habitat project list" means the list of projects as described
				in
				RCW
				 77.85.010(3) compiled by a
				citizens' committee and submitted by a lead entity to the board as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.050(3). The habitat
				project list shall establish priorities for individual projects and define the
				sequence for project implementation as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.050. The list of projects in the
				habitat project list must be within the lead entity area as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.050(2). The habitat
				project list includes the lead entity ranked project list.
"Initiating governments" means the counties, cities, and tribal
				governments that choose to participate in the formation of a lead entity
				area.
"Lead entity" means a city, county, conservation district,
				special purposes district, tribal government, regional recovery organization or
				other entity that is designated jointly by any one or more of the counties,
				cities, and Native American tribes within the lead entity area as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.050.
"Lead entity area" means the geographic area designated jointly
				by any one or more of the counties, cities, and Native American tribes within
				that area, which is based, at a minimum, on a watershed resource inventory
				area, as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.010(13), combination
				of water resource inventory areas, or any other area as described in
				RCW
				 77.85.050(2) that does not
				overlap with another lead entity area for the same salmon species.
"Lead entity ranked project list" means those projects on the
				habitat project list that will be implemented in the current funding cycle per
				RCW
				 77.85.010(4) and as
				described in
				RCW
				 77.85.060.
"Manual(s)" means a compilation of state and federal laws;
				board rules, policies and procedures; and director procedures, forms, and
				instructions assembled in manual form for dissemination to parties that
				participate in the board's or office's grant program(s).
"Match" or "matching share" means the portion of the total
				project cost in the project agreement provided by the project sponsor.
"Monitoring or research project" means a project that monitors
				the effectiveness of salmon recovery restoration actions, or provides data on
				salmon populations or their habitat conditions.
"Noninitiating governments" means the counties, cities, and
				tribal governments that decline to participate in the selection of a lead
				entity area. Any government that declines to participate in the formation of a
				lead entity area, with or without formal notification, is a noninitiating
				government. Noninitiating governments may participate in other functions of the
				lead entity.
"Office" means the recreation and conservation office as
				described in
				RCW
				 79A.25.010.
"Planning project" means a project that results in a study,
				assessment, project design, or inventory.
"Preagreement cost" means a project cost incurred before the
				period of performance identified in the project agreement.
"Project" means the undertaking which is, or may be, funded in
				whole or in part with funds administered by the office on behalf of the
				board.
"Project area" means the area consistent with the geographic
				limits of the scope of work of the project. For restoration projects, the
				project area must include the physical limits of the project's final site plans
				or final design plans. For acquisition projects, the project area must include
				the area described by the legal description of the properties acquired in the
				project.
"Regional recovery organization" or "regional salmon recovery
				organization" means an organization described in
				RCW
				 77.85.010(7).
"Reimbursement" means the payment of funds from the office to
				the sponsor for eligible and allowable project costs that have already been
				paid by the sponsor per the terms of an agreement.
"Restoration project" means to bring a site back to its
				historic function as part of a natural ecosystem or improving or enhancing the
				ecological functionality of a site.
"Salmon recovery region" means a geographic area as described
				in
				RCW
				 77.85.010(10).
"Sponsor" means an eligible applicant under
				RCW  77.85.010(6) who has been awarded a grant of funds and is
				bound by an executed project agreement; includes its officers, employees,
				agents, and successors.
Statutory Authority: RCW  42.17.250,
				  [42.17].260(5),[42.17.]290, 43.21C.120(1),
				  chapters
				  34.05,
				  42.30, 77.85 RCW. 01-04-052, §
										420-04-010, filed 2/2/01,
				  effective 3/5/01.