Ordinance 753-81 - Laserfiche WebLink

• 3. A threshold determination which requires that further studies, including field investigations initiated by the City, shall be completed within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of said studies. 4. A threshold determination on an action where the applicant recommends in writing that an EIS be prepared because of the significant impact asserted and described in the application shall be completed within fifteen (15) days of submission of a completed checklist. 5. The time limits set forth in this subsection shall not apply to withdrawals of affirmative and negative threshold determinations where such withdrawals are made in accordance with WAC 197-10-370 and 197-10-375. 6. When a threshold determination is expected to require more than the time period specified above to complete and a private applicant requests notification of the date when a threshold determination will be made, the lead agency shall transmit to the private applicant a written statement as to the expected date of decision. Section 11: Use of Categorical Exemptions A. The applicability of the exemptions shall be determined by the Responsible Official for each application received for a license, or for each governmental proposal initiated by the City. No exemption is allowed for the sole reason that actions are considered to be of a ministerial nature or of an environmentally regulatory or beneficial nature. The determination of whether or not a proposal is exempt shall be made by ascertaining the total scope of the proposal and the governmental licenses required. B. If a proposal includes a series of actions, physcally or functionally related to each other, some of which are exempt and some of which are not, the proposal shall not be exempt. C. If the proposal includes a series of exempt actions which are physically or functionally related to each other, but which together may have a significant environmental impact, the proposal shall not be exempt. D. If it is determined that a proposal is exempt, none of the procedural requirements of these guidelines shall apply to the proposal. No environmental checklist shall be required for an exempt proposal. E. If a proposal includes both exempt and nonexempt actions, exempt actions may be authorized with respect to the proposal prior to compliance with the procedural requirements of these guidelines subject to the following limitations. 1. No major action (non-exempt action) shall be authorized. 2. No action shall be authorized which will irrevocably commit the City to approve or authorize a major action.