WAC 332-41-040   Additional definitions.  In addition to the definitions contained in WAC 197-11-700 through197-11-799 , the following terms shall have the listed meanings:

     (1) "Assistant region manager" means a principal assistant to a region manager with responsibility for either regulatory or proprietary programs.

     (2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public lands, who is the administrator of the department of natural resources as established by chapter 43.30 RCW.

     (3) "Division" means any one of the principal units of DNR that administers a program and is designated on DNR's management chart as a "division."

     (4) "Division manager" means the person with overall responsibility for the functioning of one of DNR's divisions.

     (5) "DNR" means the Washington state department of natural resources.

     (6) "Environmental coordinator" means the DNR's designated SEPA environmental assistant division manager, and designees such as DNR SEPA center personnel, designated to help the responsible official comply with SEPA procedures for DNR.

     (7) "Notice of final determination" means a DNR document that provides the status of a threshold determination and states whether a threshold determination was retained as final, modified, withdrawn, or delayed.

     (8) "Proponent" means applicant, as defined in WAC 197-11-716, or a party with a proposal, as defined in WAC 197-11-784.

     (9) "Public lands" means lands of the state of Washington administered by DNR, including but not limited to state lands, state forest lands, and aquatic lands as defined in chapters 79.02, 79.70 and 79.71 RCW.

     (10) "Region manager" means the person responsible for the administration of a geographic field unit, as designated by the management organizational chart of DNR. They supervise assistant region managers.

     (11) "SEPA center" means the DNR section responsible for printing, mailing, retaining SEPA documents, and coordination of the SEPA process. The SEPA center is located at Washington Department of Natural Resources, 1111 Washington Street S.E., Olympia, Washington 98504-7015.

     (12) "State forest lands" means lands acquired under RCW 79.22.010, 79.22.020, and 79.22.040.

     (13) "State-owned aquatic lands" means all tidelands, shorelands, harbor areas, the beds of navigable waters, and waterways owned by the state and administered by DNR or managed under RCW 79.105.420 by a port district and as defined in RCW 79.105.060.



[Statutory Authority: Chapters 43.21C, 34.05 RCW, WAC 197-11-902(2), [197-11]-904(1) and delegation order, November 5, 2001, signature authority to adopt rules. 07-08-021, § 332-41-040, filed 3/27/07, effective 4/27/07. Statutory Authority: Chapter 43.21C RCW and RCW 43.30.150. 84-18-052 (Order 432), § 332-41-040, filed 9/5/84. Formerly WAC 332-40-040.]