Washington Administrative Code › Title 332 - Natural Resources, Board and Department of (See also Title 222) › Chapter 332-41 - SEPA policies and procedures › Section 332-41-040 - Additional definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
In addition to the definitions contained in WAC
				197-11-700 through
				197-11-799, the
				following terms shall have the listed meanings:
(1) "Assistant region manager"
			 means a principal assistant to a region manager with responsibility
			 for either regulatory or proprietary programs.
(2) "Commissioner" means the
			 commissioner of public lands, who is the administrator of the
			 department of natural resources as established by
			 chapter 43.30 RCW.
(3) "Division" means any one of the
			 principal units of DNR that administers a program and is designated
			 on DNR's management chart as a "division."
(4) "Division manager" means the
			 person with overall responsibility for the functioning of one of
			 DNR's divisions.
(5)
			 "DNR" means the Washington state department of natural
			 resources.
(6)
			 "Environmental coordinator" means the DNR's designated SEPA
			 environmental assistant division manager, and designees such as DNR
			 SEPA center personnel, designated to help the responsible official
			 comply with SEPA procedures for DNR.
(7) "Notice of final determination"
			 means a DNR document that provides the status of a threshold
			 determination and states whether a threshold determination was
			 retained as final, modified, withdrawn, or delayed.
(8) "Proponent" means applicant, as
			 defined in WAC
			 197-11-716, or a party
			 with a proposal, as defined in WAC
			 197-11-784.
(9) "Public lands" means lands of
			 the state of Washington administered by DNR, including but not
			 limited to state lands, state forest lands, and aquatic lands as
			 defined in chapters 79.02, 79.70 and 79.71 RCW.
(10) "Region manager" means the
			 person responsible for the administration of a geographic field unit,
			 as designated by the management organizational chart of DNR. They
			 supervise assistant region managers.
(11) "SEPA center" means the DNR
			 section responsible for printing, mailing, retaining SEPA documents,
			 and coordination of the SEPA process. The SEPA center is located at
			 Washington Department of Natural Resources, 1111 Washington Street
			 S.E., Olympia, Washington 98504-7015.
(12) "State forest lands" means
			 lands acquired under
			 RCW 79.22.010,
			 79.22.020, and
			 79.22.040.
(13) "State-owned aquatic lands"
			 means all tidelands, shorelands, harbor areas, the beds of navigable
			 waters, and waterways owned by the state and administered by DNR or
			 managed under
			 RCW 79.105.420 by a port
			 district and as defined in
			 RCW
			 79.105.060.
Statutory Authority:
				  Chapters 43.21C,
				  34.05
				  RCW, WAC
				  197-11-902(2),
				  [197-11]-904(1) and delegation order, November 5, 2001, signature
				  authority to adopt rules. 07-08-021, § 332-41-040, filed
				  3/27/07, effective 4/27/07. Statutory Authority:
				  Chapter 43.21C RCW and RCW
				  43.30.150. 84-18-052 (Order 432), § 332-41-040, filed 9/5/84.
				  Formerly WAC 332-40-040.