Forest Practices Current Rule Making Activity

RULE MAKING OVERVIEW

The Forest Practices Board follows the state laws that govern its rule making activity.

The Administrative Procedure Act (chapter 34.05 RCW) requires that agencies conduct a process that ensures public involvement opportunities and considers the economic impact of its rules.

The Regulatory Fairness Act (chapter 19.85 RCW) requires agencies to consider disproportionate impacts of rules on small businesses.

The State Environmental Policy Act (chapter 197-11 WAC) requires agencies to consider environmental impacts of rules.

In addition, RCW 76.09.040(2) of the Forest Practices Act requires that the Forest Practices Board inform counties and other governmental entities early in the rule development phase of the Board's intent to add or amend a forest practices rule.

CURRENT RULE MAKING ACTIVITY

Subjects of the Forest Practices Board's current rule making activities are listed below. For past rule making activity, please visit our archived rule making activity page. To download a document, right-click on the link, select "save target as" or "save as" from the short-cut menu and save the file to your computer. Then open the file using Adobe Acrobat Reader, not the browser.

Critical Habitat

Hearing Notice (73KB PDF)

SEPA - Determination of Nonsignificance (730 KB PDF)

CR-102 Proposed Rule Making - WSR 11-23-105 Filed on November 18, 2011 (96KB PDF)

Preliminary Economic Analysis (73KB PDF)

CR-101 Preproposal Statement of Inquiry (75KB PDF)

Experimental research treatments - pilot rule making

CR-101 Preproposal Statement of Inquiry Approved 2/10/10 (201KB PDF)

CR-101 Preproposal Statement of Inquiry Approved 2/22/08 (25KB PDF)

CR-101 Preproposal Statement of Inquiry Approved 2/14/07 (26KB PDF)

CR-101 Preproposal Statement of Inquiry Approved 12/02/03 (389KB PDF)

Forestry Riparian Easement Program