Ordinance 582-79 - 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 5. - 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 6. 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 6. - Initial Review The responsible Official shall make the following determinations as part of the initial review of every project or proposal, subject to the specified time limits which shall be applicable to private projects and to those governmental proposals submitted to the City by other agencies: A. Preliminary determinations: 1. A determination as to the scope of a total proposal pursuant to WAC 197-10-060. 2. A determination whether the particular project or proposal is an "action" as defined in WAC 197-10-040(2) . 3. A determination whether the project or proposal is categorically exempt. 4. The determinations set forth in subsections 1,2, and 3 shall be made within three (3) days following submission of a request for preliminary determination by a private applicant to the Responsible Official. -12-