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Thanks once again for taking time last week to discussour permit challenges AND for your continued willingness to help keep thingsmoving• I delved a little deeper into the "condition" of our permit application and the envirQnmental work supporting the Draft Preliminary Comprehensive Stormwater Master Plan (SMP). Bottom line: my folks tell me the quality of the work has been excellent and that even Tom Luster said he didn't see anything that would preclude DOE being able to grant the permit. This comment apparently came in response to a direct question from our environmental manager at the end of the County/DOETPOS meeting on the preliminary stormwater review comments. questioned why, if the submittal was good;we were needing to do ANY additionaJworl( on it to resubmit to.King County. The response was [his: Our submittal package was compiled in the format and with [he information needed for a DOE stormwater review--conceptual plans showing the layout of the stormwater management system, DOE determined they didn't have the expertise or available staff to do the review of the stormwaterportion of the 401 application and we jointly agreed to pass that portionto King County. The County's normal format and review processis apparently quite - different than the DOE process. They normally review final design plans, not conceptual design plans. This difference became clear during the course of the joint meeting last week. We_veproposed to re-format our submittal to be more in line with what King County is used to reviewing AND provide some additional information the…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]