| Permit Name |
Purpose |
Example |
Contact |
| Shoreline
Substantial Development Permit |
Required
for activities within the 100-year flood plain or within 200
feet of the shoreline of certain lakes (20 acres or more),
rivers (flowing at 20 cubic feet per second or greater), and
other water bodies. |
Bottom
barriers, rotovation, harvesting, and herbicide application. |
Your
local planning department |
| Flood
Plain Development Permit |
Required
for all activity within the 100-year flood plain. |
Buildings,
mining, filling, dredging, grading, paving, drilling
operations, and storing equipment or materials. |
Your
local planning or public works department |
| Hydraulic
Project Approval Permit |
Required
for activities that will use, divert, obstruct, or change the
natural flow or bed of any fresh or salt water of the state. |
Bottom
barriers, rotovation, drawdown, dredging, harvesting, and
cutting. |
Washington
State Department of Fish and Wildlife at 360/902-2534 |
| Water
Quality Standard Modification and/or Certification |
Required
for activities, including chemical applications either in or around
any waters. |
Herbicides,
rotovation, and dredging. |
Washington
State Department of Ecology's Water Quality Program at
360/407-6400 |
| Fish
Planting Permit (grass carp) |
Required
to stock triploid (sterile) grass carp to control aquatic
plants. |
Grass
carp planting |
Washington
State Department of Fish and Wildlife at 360/902-2820 |
| Natural
Heritage Program Letter |
Program
is state's bank of data on endangered, threatened, &
sensitive plant species; native wetland plant communities,
& aquatic & non-vegetated wetland systems. Should
get letter confirming search of critical plant species before
any plant control activity. Program has limited data for
lakes; specialist should survey for critical plant species. |
Aquatic
plant control |
Department
of Natural Resources, Division of Forest Resources at
360/902-1667 |
| Aquatic
Lands Lease and/or Authorization |
May
be needed for proposed actions involving construction,
filling, dredging, drilling, mining, road construction,
utility installation, or other activities within the beds or
shorelines of certain waters. |
Dredging,
rotovation |
Washington
State Department of Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic
Resources at 360/902-1100 |
| Forest
Practice Approval |
Required
for forest activities relating to growing, harvesting or
processing timber, road construction and maintenance, brush
clearing, slash disposal, as well as forest chemical
applications undertaken around water bodies or other areas. |
Forest
activities |
Washington
State Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forest
Practices at 360/902-1400 |
| United
States Army Corps of Engineers Permit (Sec.10 and 404) |
Required
for placing dredged or fill material in the waters and/or
wetlands, as well as work in navigable waters of the United
States. Navigable waters include major rivers and Lakes
Washington, Sammamish, Chelan, and Vancouver. |
Dredging |
U.S.Army
Corps of Engineers at 206/764-3495
|