Washington Administrative Code › Title 200 - Enterprise Services, Department of › GENERAL › Chapter 200-10 - Compliance with State Environmental Policy Act › Section 200-10-110 - Designation of responsible official

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Within the department of enterprise
				services the ultimate responsible official is the director.
(2) The director may designate the
				responsible official for overall direction and control of environmental reviews
				within the department of enterprise services and the designated division shall
				maintain all records pertaining to SEPA related decision making processes. The
				division of planning and management shall maintain copies of all determinations
				of nonsignificance filed, determinations of significance filed, and copies of
				all environmental impact studies prepared by the agency, excluding drafts, for
				a period of six years. The division of facilities engineering and architectural
				services program shall also maintain current SEPA statutes and administrative
				codes; current directives and regulations; department SEPA policies,
				procedures, and correspondence; and blank forms for determinations,
				environmental checklists, and others as required.
(3) When the department of enterprise
				services is the lead agency, the operational responsibility for determining if
				the department's involvement is an "action" and if the department's "action" is
				"exempt" shall be controlled by the designated division.
(4) The designated division shall review and
				agree or disagree with all project or program exemptions, environmental
				checklists and determinations of nonsignificance or significance initiated
				within the department. In the event that there is disagreement with the
				initiator of the project, the decision of the responsible official, designated
				division, shall be final.
(5) The
				department's responsibilities as consulted agency will be coordinated by the
				designated division. When the department of enterprise services is responding
				as the consulted agency to a draft EIS, DNS, or DS; and when specific contents
				of an EIS impacts a particular division of the department of enterprise
				services, then that EIS will be sent to the affected division director for
				review and response. The affected division's response comments and/or
				recommendation will then be incorporated into the overall department response
				and sent to the department of enterprise services responsible official for
				final approval.
(6) Any decision of
				the responsible official, designated division, shall be final until such time
				as it is superseded by the director, department of enterprise
				services.
(7) The final threshold
				determination of final EIS of the responsible official may be appealed to the
				director of the department of enterprise services within thirty days of notice
				of such determination or final EIS.
Statutory Authority:   2011 c  43. 11-23-093, recodified as
					 WAC 200-10-110, filed 11/17/11,
					 effective 11/17/11. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					    43.21C.120. 98-20-019, § 236-11-110,
					 filed 9/25/98, effective 10/26/98; 84-20-015 (Order 84-02), § 236-11-110,
					 filed 9/25/84.