EMERGENCY RULES
FISH AND WILDLIFE
Effective Date of Rule: May 28, 2011.
Purpose: Amend personal use fishing rules.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Repealing WAC 232-28-61900C; and amending WAC 232-28-619.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.047 and 77.04.020.
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: Kalama River - Through May 20, 2011, just eleven adult spring chinook (including three unmarked fish) had returned to Kalama Falls Hatchery. The hatchery brood stock goal is four hundred fish. Lewis River - To date, less than one hundred adult spring chinook have entered the traps on the Lewis. The hatchery escapement goal is one thousand three hundred fish. There is insufficient time to adopt permanent rules.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 1.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.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: May 26, 2011.
Philip Anderson
Director
(1) Kalama River - from the boundary markers at the mouth to the upper salmon hatchery.
(2) Lewis River - Mainstem Lewis River from the mouth to the mouth of the East Fork.
Also, the North Fork Lewis from the mouth of the East Fork to the overhead powerlines below Merwin Dam.
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Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.
REPEALER
The following section of the Washington Administrative
Code is repealed effective August 1, 2011:
| WAC 232-28-61900C | Exceptions to statewide rules -- Kalama and Lewis river. |
Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.