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Clerk 06/30/2025
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into interlocal agreements for salmon conservation efforts in the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish Watershed within Water Resource Inventory Area 7, the Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed also known as Water Resource Inventory Area 8, and the Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed also known as Water Resource Inventory Area 9.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. In response to the 1999 listing of the Puget Sound Chinook salmon under the federal Endangered Species Act, King County and other affected jurisdictions determined that Water Resource Inventory Area-based ("WRIA") salmon conservation planning was a critical and necessary component of efforts to recover species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act and of salmon recovery overall.
2. On October 16, 2000, the King County council passed Motion 11077, authorizing the executive to enter into interlocal agreements between King County and other eligible governmental entities in, respectively, the King County portion of WRIA 7, which is the Snoqualmie and South Fork Skykomish Watershed, WRIA 8, which is the Lake Washington/Cedar/Sammamish Watershed, and WRIA 9, which is the Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed, for the purpose of cooperatively developing, funding, and implementing watershed-based salmon conservation plans, habitat protection and restoration efforts, and other water resource management projects and programs in those watersheds.
3. Watershed-based salmon conservation plans were developed for each of the watersheds and ratified by parties to the interlocal agreements in each of the respective King County watersheds in 2005 and 2006. The plans were approved by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries as chapters in the overall Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Plan in 2007.
4. King County and affected jurisdictions and partners have been working to...
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