2. publicly funded mitigation of avoidable impacts; 



3. cost for public emergency rescue and relief operations; and 



4. potential litigation from improper construction practices 

 authorized for wetland areas; 



c. Alerting appraisers, assessors, owners, and potential buyers 

 or lessees to the development limitations of wetlands; 



d. Providing [local unit of government] officials with 

 information to evaluate, approve, condition, or deny public or 

 private development proposals; 



e. Adopting Governor Booth Gardner's interim goal to achieve no 

 overall net loss in acreage and functions of Washington's 

 remaining wetland base and the long-term goal to increase the 

 quantity and quality of Washington's wetland resource base; 



f. Implementing the policies of the Growth Management Act, the 

 State Environmental Policy Act, Chapter 43.21C RWC, Puget 

 Sound Water Quality Management Plan, Washington State 

 Executive Order 90-04, [relevant local plans, policies and 

 ordinances], and all other present and future [local unit of 

 government] functional, environmental and community plans and 

 programs . 



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Section 2: Definitions 



For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall 

 apply: 



a. "Applicant" means a person who files an application for permit 

 under this chapter and who is either the owner of the land on which 

 that proposed activity would be located, a contract vendee, a 

 lessee of the land, the person who would actually control and 

 direct the proposed activity, or the authorized agent of such a 

 person. 



b. "Best management practices" means conservation practices or 

 systems of practices and management measures that: 



1) Control soil loss and reduce water quality degradation 

 caused by nutrients, animal waste, toxics, and sediment; and 



2) Minimize adverse impacts to surface water and groundwater 

 flow, circulation patterns, and to the chemical, physical, and 

 biological characteristics of wetlands. 



c. "Compensation project" means actions necessary to replace 

 project-induced wetland and wetland buffer losses, including land 

 acquisition, planning, construction plans, monitoring and 

 contingency actions. 



d. "Compensatory mitigation" means replacing project- induced 

 wetland losses or impacts, and includes, but is not limited to, the 

 following: 



