Date Adopted: December 6, 2003.

     Purpose: Amend oyster reserve sales rules.

     Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 220-60-010.

     Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.047.

      Adopted under notice filed as WSR 03-21-101 on October 17, 2003.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 2, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0;      Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

     Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

December 11, 2003

Susan Yeager

for Will Roehl, Chair

Fish and Wildlife Commission

OTS-6732.1

AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending Order 85-190, filed 11/27/85)

WAC 220-60-010   Publishing notice of sale.   Sales of oysters and/or clams from the oyster reserves of the state in excess of 50 bushels shall take place only after notice of such sales has been published in ((the Daily Olympian at Olympia, Washington, and)) one newspaper of general circulation in the area in which such sales shall take place.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 75.08.080. 85-24-045 (Order 85-190), § 220-60-010, filed 11/27/85; Order 248, § 1, filed 3/1/60.]