WAC 365-195-820   Submissions to state.  (l) Development regulations may be submitted to the department and other state agencies for comment individually as they are drafted. Except as set forth in subsection (2) of this section, the statutory requirement to notify the department of the intent to adopt development regulations at least sixty days prior to final adoption will apply each time any implementing regulation or amendment is proposed for adoption.

     (2) The department construes the sixty-day notice requirement as inapplicable to interim regulations for natural resource lands and critical areas, and to regulations or amendments which are merely procedural or ministerial.

     (3) Counties and cities should provide the department with notice of intent sixty days prior to adopting interim growth areas.

     (4) Separate notice should be provided to the department of all preexisting regulations that are to be included in the implementation strategy without change.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.70A.190 (4)(b). 93-17-040, § 365-195-820, filed 8/11/93, effective 9/11/93; 92-23-065, § 365-195-820, filed 11/17/92, effective 12/18/92.]