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d. The responsible official may withhold approval of exempt actions that would lead to substantial financial expenditures by a private applicant which would serve no purpose if later approval of a nonexempt action is not secured. 3. A determination whether the project or proposal is categorically exempt shall be made by the responsible official within fifteen (15)days of receiving a request for such a determination from a private applicant or another governmental agency. C. Environmental checklist 1. When a threshold determination is required under WAC 197-11-310 and an environmental checklist is required under WAC 197-11-315(1)(a),a completed environmental checklist,substantially in the form provided in WAC 197-11-960,shall be filed with the application. For any application,including resubmitted applications,the city may use an existing SEPA determination or may require new or additional environmental documents as provided by WAC 197-11-600, including adoption of NEPA documents. 2. For private proposals,the city will require the applicant to complete the environmental checklist.The city may require that it,and not the private applicant,will complete all or part of the environmental checklist for a private proposal,if either of the following occurs: a. The city has technical information on a question or questions contained in the environmental checklist that is unavailable to the private applicant;or b. The applicant has provided misleading and inaccurate information on previous proposals or on proposals currently under consideration. D. Mitigated DNS 1. As provided in this section and in WAC 197-11-350,the responsible official may issue a mitigated determination of nonsignificance(mitigated DNS)for a proposal whenever: a. The city specifies mitigation measures in its DNS and conditions the proposal to include those mitigation measures so that the proposal will not have a probable significant adverse environmental impact;and b. The proposal is clarified or changed by the applicant to mitigate impacts of the proposal so that, in the judgment of the responsible official,the proposal will not have a probable significant adverse environmental impact. 2. After submission of an environmental checklist and prior to the city's threshold determination, an applicant may submit a written request for early notice of whether a determination of significance(DS)is likely under WAC 197-11-350. 3. The responsible official should respond to the request for early notice within fifteen working days.The response shall: a. Be written; b. State whether the city currently considers issuance of a DS likely and,if so,indicate the potentially significant adverse environmental impacts that are leading the city to consider a DS;and c. State that the applicant may change or clarify the proposal to mitigate the indicated impacts,and revise the environmental checklist and/or permit application for the proposal as necessary to describe the changes or clarifications. 4. As much as possible,the city should assist the applicant with identification of impacts to the extent necessary to formulate mitigation measures. 5. When an applicant submits a changed or clarified proposal,along with a revised environmental checklist, the city shall base its threshold determination on the changed or clarified proposal and should make the determination within fourteen days of receiving the changed or clarified proposal. a. If the city indicated specific mitigation measures in its response to the request for early notice,and the applicant changed or clarified the proposal to include those specific mitigation measures,the city shall issue and circulate a mitigated determination of nonsignificance under WAC 197-11-340(2).The Ch.15.02 Local Project Review 16 City Council Action(11/04/2020)