EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Effective Date of Rule: March 31, 2009, 8:36 p.m.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-61900C.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.047.
Under RCW 34.05.350 the agency for good cause finds that immediate adoption, amendment, or repeal of a rule is necessary for the preservation of the public health, safety, or general welfare, and that observing the time requirements of notice and opportunity to comment upon adoption of a permanent rule would be contrary to the public interest.
Reasons for this Finding: The steelhead fishery in these waters was authorized under a federal permit that prescribes strict limits on incidental catch of wild steelhead protected under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA). The closures are now necessary to protect wild steelhead now returning to the Methow and Okanogan river systems.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: March 27, 2009.
Joe Stohr
for Philip Anderson
Director
The following section of the Washington Administrative
Code is repealed effective 8:36 p.m. March 31, 2009:
| WAC 232-28-61900C | Exceptions to statewide rules -- Columbia, Methow, Okanogan and Similkameen rivers. (09-30) |