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EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures Page 43 of 94 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />2. After submission of an environmental checklist and prior to the city’s threshold <br />determination, an applicant may submit a written request for early notice of whether a <br />determination of significance (DS) is likely under WAC 197-11-350. <br />3. The responsible official should respond to the request for early notice within fifteen <br />working days. The response shall: <br />a. Be written; <br />b. State whether the city currently considers issuance of a DS likely and, if so, indicate <br />the potentially significant adverse environmental impacts that are leading the city to <br />consider a DS; and <br />c. State that the applicant may change or clarify the proposal to mitigate the indicated <br />impacts, and revise the environmental checklist and/or permit application for the <br />proposal as necessary to describe the changes or clarifications. <br />4. As much as possible, the city should assist the applicant with identification of impacts to <br />the extent necessary to formulate mitigation measures. <br />5. When an applicant submits a changed or clarified proposal, along with a revised <br />environmental checklist, the city shall base its threshold determination on the changed or <br />clarified proposal and should make the determination within fourteen days of receiving the <br />changed or clarified proposal. <br />a. If the city indicated specific mitigation measures in its response to the request for <br />early notice, and the applicant changed or clarified the proposal to include those <br />specific mitigation measures, the city shall issue and circulate a mitigated <br />determination of nonsignificance under WAC 197-11-340(2). The responsible official <br />shall reconsider the DNS based on timely comments and may retain, modify or <br />withdraw the DNS under WAC 197-11-340(2)(f). <br />6. If the city indicated potentially significant adverse environmental impacts, but did not <br />indicate specific mitigation measures that would allow it to issue a DNS, the city shall make <br />the threshold determination, issuing a DNS or DS as appropriate. <br />a. The applicant’s proposed mitigation measures (clarifications, changes or conditions) <br />must be in writing and must be specific. For example, proposals to “control noise” or