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EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures Page 42 of 94 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />d. The responsible official may withhold approval of exempt actions that would lead <br />to substantial financial expenditures by a private applicant which would serve no <br />purpose if later approval of a nonexempt action is not secured. <br />3. A determination whether the project or proposal is categorically exempt shall be made <br />by the responsible official within fifteen days of receiving a request for such a <br />determination from a private applicant or another governmental agency. <br />C. Environmental Checklist. <br />1. When a threshold determination is required under WAC 197-11-310 and an <br />environmental checklist is required under WAC 197-11-315(1)(a), a completed <br />environmental checklist, substantially in the form provided in WAC 197-11-960, shall be <br />filed with the application. For any application, including resubmitted applications, the city <br />may use an existing SEPA determination or may require new or additional environmental <br />documents as provided by WAC 197-11-600, including adoption of NEPA documents. <br />2. For private proposals, the city will require the applicant to complete the environmental <br />checklist. The city may require that it, and not the private applicant, will complete all or part <br />of the environmental checklist for a private proposal, if either of the following occurs: <br />a. The city has technical information on a question or questions contained in the <br />environmental checklist that is unavailable to the private applicant; or <br />b. The applicant has provided misleading and inaccurate information on previous <br />proposals or on proposals currently under consideration. <br />D. Mitigated DNS. <br />1. As provided in this section and in WAC 197-11-350, the responsible official may issue a <br />mitigated determination of nonsignificance (mitigated DNS) for a proposal whenever: <br />a. The city specifies mitigation measures in its DNS and conditions the proposal to <br />include those mitigation measures so that the proposal will not have a probable <br />significant adverse environmental impact; and <br />b. The proposal is clarified or changed by the applicant to mitigate impacts of the <br />proposal so that, in the judgment of the responsible official, the proposal will not have <br />a probable significant adverse environmental impact.