5900 36TH AVE W SEPA 015 - 034 - SOUNDVIEW BUSINESS CAMPUS - VERITAS Land Use Decision Documents 2025-04-22

® USGS NHO data, ❑ USGS 8 and 12 digit HUG maps. ❑ U.S. Geological Survey map(s). Cite scale & quad name: ❑ USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Soil Survey. Citation: ® National wetlands inventory map(s). Cite name: ❑ State/Local wetland inventory map(s): ❑ FEMA/FIRM maps: . ' ❑ 100-year Floodplain Elevation Is: (National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929) ❑ Photographs: ❑ Aerial (Name & Date): ❑ Previous determination(s). File no., date (and findings) of response letter (determination and coordination): ❑ Other information (please specify): ' 1, The Corps of Engineers believes that there may be jurisdictional waters of the United States on the subject site, and the permit applicant or other affected party who requested this preliminary JD is hereby advised of his or her option to request and obtain an approved jurisdictional determination (JD) for that site, Nevertheless, the permit applicant or other person who requested this preliminary JD has declined to exercise the option to obtain an approved JD in this instance and at this time. 2. In any circumstance where a permit applicant obtains an individual permit, or a Nationwide General Permit (NWP) or other general permit verification requiring "pre -construction notification" (PCN), or requests verification for a non -reporting NWP or other general permit, and the permit applicant has not requested an approved JD for the activity, the permit applicant is hereby made aware of the following: (1) the permit applicant has elected to seek a permit authorization based on a preliminary JD, which does not make an official determination of jurisdictional waters; (2) that the applicant has the option to request an approved JD before accepting the terms and conditions of the permit authorization, and that basing a permit authorization on an approved JD could possibly result in less compensatory mitigation being required or different special conditions; (3) that the applicant has the right to request an individual permit rather than accepting the terms and conditions of the NWP or other general permit authorization; (4) that the applicant can accept a permit authorization and thereby agree to comply with all the terms and conditions of that permit, Including whatever mitigation requirements the Corps has determined to be necessary; (5) that undertaking any activity in reliance upon the subject permit authorization without requesting an approved JD constitutes the applicant's acceptance of the use of the preliminary JD, but that either form of JD will be processed as soon as Is practicable; (6) accepting a permit authorization (e.g., signing a proffered individual permit) or undertaking any activity In reliance on any form of Corps permit authorization based on a preliminary JD constitutes agreement that all wetlands and otherwater bodies on the site affected In any way by that activity are jurisdictional waters of the United States, and precludes any challenge to such jurisdiction in any administrative or judiclal compliance or enforcement action, or in any administrative appeal or In any Federal court; and (7) whether the applicant elects to use either an approved JD or a preliminary JD, that JD will be processed as soon as is practicable, Further, an approved JD, a proffered individual permit (and all terms and conditions contained therein), or Individual permit denial can be ' administratively appealed pursuant to 33 C.F.R, Part 331, and that in any administrative appeal, jurisdictional issues can be raised (see 33 C.F,R. 331,5(a)(2)), If, during that administrative appeal, It becomes necessary to make an official determination whether CWA jurisdiction exists over a site, or to provide an official delineation of jurisdictional waters on the site, the Corps will provide an approved JD to accomplish that result, as soon as is practicable, This preliminary JD finds that there "maybe" wafers of the United States on the subject project site, and Identifies all aquatic features on the site that could be affected by the proposed activity, based on the information in this document, IMPORTANT NOTE: The information recorded on this form has not necessarily been verified by the Corps and should not be relied upon for later lurlsdIctional determinations. Slgnaful,e: 5- Erin Legge, Regulato - R oject Manager Date Person' Requesting Preliminary JD Date I Permit applicant, landowner, a lease, easement or option holder, or Individual with Identifiable and substantial legal interest in the property; this signature is not required for preliminary JDs associated with enforcement actions,