Table 4.7 CCMP Action Plan Outline to Protect Wetlands* 



PROBLEM 



PROGRAM GOAL 



OBJECTIVES 



ACTION #1 : 

 Who: 



What: 



When: 



ACTION #2: 

 Who: 

 What: 



When: 

 ACTION #3: 

 What: 



When: 

 ACTION #4: 

 What: 



When: 



More than half of the wetlands along the coasts and 

 riverbanks of Puget Sound have been destroyed by 

 human activity: primarily agriculture and industrial 

 activity and commercial and residential development. 

 To ensure that the most important w/etlands of the 

 Puget Sound Basin are preserved in perpetuity and 

 that degradation of other valuable wetlands is mini- 

 mized. 



1 . Identify those critical wetlands that should be 

 preserved and either purchase or, through another 

 mechanism, safeguard them. 



2. Require local governments to develop local wet- 

 land protection programs that meet state standards 



3. Develop and implement a program to protect wet- 

 lands on state-owned uplands and aquatic lands. 



4. Develop and implement a long-range wetlands 

 education strategy. 



Criteria Development and Program Planning 



Department of Ecology (lead); Departments of Natural 

 Resources, Fisheries, and Wildlife. A work group repre- 

 senting government and a balance of key citizen inter- 

 ests is evaluating funding sources. 



(a) Prepare detailed criteria for selection of wetlands 

 to be preserved. 



(b) Evaluate techniques and mechanisms for their 

 preservation such as acquisition, conservation ease- 

 ments, transfer of development rights. 



Criteria and techniques for preservation by 9/88; 

 marine and estuarine components by 12/89. 



Identification of Wetlands to Be Preserved 



State agencies. 



(a) Develop preliminary list of already identified wet- 

 lands. 



(b) Identify additional areas meeting criteria set in #1. 



(c) Hold public workshops to educate and encourage 

 citizens to participate in selection process. 



Final list by 4/90. 



Wetlands Preservation 



(a) Develop management standards. 



(b) Prepare a preservation strategy for each site. 



Initial acquisitions by 8/88; site strategies by 12/90. 



State Rules for Wetlands Protection 



Develop rules prescribing minimum standards for 

 local wetlands, including schedules. 



5/89. 



ACTION #5: Local Program Development 



ACTION #6: State Wetlands Protection 



ACTION #7: Wetlands Education 



PROGRAM COSTS$4.7 million in FY 1990; $3.9 million in FY 1991 ; ap- 

 proximately $3.5 million a year thereafter. It is es- 

 timated that wetlands acquisition, the greatest portion 

 of these monies, will cost about $2.5 million each year 

 and ccuiu be financed from bond sales, state capital 

 construction budget, and other sources identified by 

 the working group. 



•For complete plan, see 1 987 Puget Sound Water Quality Management 

 Plan. 



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