WSR 98-17-043
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Order 98-158--Filed August 13, 1998, 5:00 p.m.]
Date of Adoption: August 8, 1998.
Purpose: To amend WAC 232-16-700 Swinomish Spit Game Reserve.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 232-16-700.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 77.12.040.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 98-14-099 on June 30, 1998.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, amended 1, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.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.
August 12, 1998
Lisa Pelly, Chair
Fish and Wildlife Commission
AMENDATORY SECTION [(Amending Order 249, filed 10/12/84)]
WAC 232-16-700 Swinomish Spit Game Reserve. It shall be unlawful to hunt wild animals and wild birds within the following described boundary November 1 through March 31, and it shall be unlawful to hunt brant at any time within the following described boundary: Beginning at the Burlington Northern railroad tracks on the west shoreline of the Swinomish Channel; thence in a northwesterly direction along the west side of the Swinomish Channel to the red channel mark buoy N "20" (as indicated on Navigation Map #18427, 13th Ed., July 16, 1983); thence 6,000 feet ENE (east-northeast); thence 3,300 feet SSE (south-southeast); thence 4,200 feet SW (southwest) to the dike at the south end of Padilla Bay; thence continue westerly along said dike to the intersection of the Burlington Northern railroad tracks and the east shoreline of the Swinomish Channel; thence continue along said railroad tracks (across swing bridge) to the west shoreline of the Swinomish Channel and the point of beginning.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 77.12.040. 84-21-046 (Order 249), § 232-16-700, filed 10/12/84.]
Reviser's note: The bracketed material preceding the section above was supplied by the code reviser's office.