PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Rules regarding tribal hunting boundaries.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 77.12.047.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The department is implementing a negotiated southern boundary of the ceded lands under the Medicine Creek Treaty.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Phil Anderson, Special Assistant, Intergovernmental Policy Group, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98505-1091, (360) 902-2720. Contact by October 23, 2001, expected proposal filing October 24, 2001.
September 4, 2001
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator