Ordinance 753-81 - Laserfiche WebLink

B. When required to be prepared, the Declaration of Significance or Non- Significance, the EIS, or a previously circulated EIS being utilized pursuant to WAC 197-10-660, shall accompany a proposal through the existing review process. C. Each department shall submit a list of licenses and procedures to the Responsible Official who shall indicate for each process or license the point at which the EIS or Environmental Checklist shall be required. Section 8: Timing of the Environmental Review Process A. The primary purpose of the EIS process is to provide environmental information to governmental decision makers to be considered prior to making their decision. The actual decision to proceed with many actions may involve a series of individual approvals or decisions. The threshold determination and the EIS, if required, should ideally be completed at the beginning of this process. The threshold determination and the EIS (if required) should be completed at the earliest point in the planning and decision making process, at which time, principal features of a proposal and its impacts upon the environment can be reliably identified. B. At a minimum, the threshold determination and any required EIS shall be completed prior to the City making any decision irreversibly committing itself to adopt, approve or otherwise undertake any proposed major action, as identified in Section 9. C. When a proposed major action is a proposal for either a governmental action of a project nature or a governmental action of a non-project nature, and the proponent of the major action is also the lead agency, then the maximum time limits contained in this ordinance for the threshold determination and EIS process shall not apply to the proposal. Section 9: Withdrawal of Negative Threshold Determination A. Except after a nonexempt license has been issued for a private project, the lead agency may withdraw any proposed or final declaration of non significance when new information becomes available to it indicating that the proposal may have significant adverse environmental impacts. B. The lead agency may withdraw any proposed or final declaration of non significance at any time when: 1. The proposal has been modified after the threshold determination, and such modification may cause the proposed action to have significant adverse environmental impacts, or 2. The negative threshold determination was procured by misrepresentation or lack of full disclosure by the proponent of the proposal, or