WSR 98-07-092
PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Filed March 18, 1998, 9:00 a.m.]
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Small scale prospecting and mining
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 75.20.330
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: The 1997 legislature ordered the department to adopt rules under which small scale prospecting and mining will be exempt from obtaining hydraulic project approval, chapter 415, Laws of 1997, codified at RCW 75.20.330
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: Department of Ecology, Department of Natural Resources, Corps of Engineers, National Marine Fisheries Service. All are members of the Mineral Prospecting Rule Change External Workgroup
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 Karen Terwilliger, Assistant Director, Habitat, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091, (360) 902-2600. Contact by August 4, 1998. Expected proposal filing August 5, 1998
March 18, 1998
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator