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Clerk 02/12/2018
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AN ORDINANCE ratifying the 2017 update to the Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed (WRIA 8) Chinook Salmon Conservation Plan 10-year Update.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The 2017 update to the Washington Resource Inventory Area ("WRIA") 8 Chinook Salmon Conservation Plan ("the WRIA 8 plan") is an addendum to the 2005 WRIA 8 Chinook Salmon Conservation Plan, and includes a scientific framework, Chinook salmon population goals to achieve sustainable and harvestable populations, habitat restoration goals, recovery strategies, a list of priority projects and programmatic actions, and a monitoring and adaptive management plan.
2. Twenty eight local governments in WRIA 8 partner through an interlocal agreement ("the ILA") to jointly fund implementation of the WRIA 8 plan through 2025 to advance their shared interest in and responsibility for addressing long-term watershed planning and conservation of aquatic ecosystems and floodplains for purposes of implementing the WRIA 8 plan and improving watershed health.
3. The WRIA 8 partners recognize participating in the ILA and implementing priorities in the WRIA 8 plan demonstrates their commitment to proactively working to address the Endangered Species Act ("the ESA") listing of Chinook salmon.
4. WRIA 8 partners took formal action in 2005 and 2006 to ratify the WRIA 8 plan.
5. In March 1999, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries ("NOAA Fisheries") listed the Puget Sound Chinook salmon evolutionary significant unit, including the Cedar and Sammamish populations in WRIA 8, as a threatened species under the ESA.
6. An essential ingredient for the development and implementation of an effective recovery program is coordination and cooperation among federal, state, and local agencies, tribes, businesses, researchers, nongovernmental organizations, landowners, citizens and other stakeholders as required.
7. Local jurisdictions have authority over some habitat-ba...
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