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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 6 115 <br />March 7, 2016 <br />Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners Shoreline Master Program Adopting Ordinance <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Exhibit A | March 2016 | Page 115 of 339 <br />5. Mining should be located and operated so as to provide long-term protection of <br />water quality, and fish and wildlife habitats. <br />6. Mining, particularly surface or strip mining, should provide for timely restoration of <br />disturbed areas to a biologically productive, attractive semi-natural, or other useful <br />condition through a reclamation process consistent with regulations administered by <br />the Washington State Department of Natural Resources and other applicable local <br />standards. <br />7. Mining of shorelines having high value for recreation, or as fish or wildlife habitat, <br />should generally not be permitted. <br />8. Mining should only be permitted where appropriate studies and detailed operation <br />plans demonstrate that: <br />a. Fish habitat, upland habitat and water quality will not be significantly harmed; <br />and <br />b. The operation will not adversely affect geologic or hydrologic processes, <br />channel alignment, nor increase bank erosion or flood damage. <br /> <br />9. Mining operations should be located, designed, and managed so that other <br />appropriate uses are not subjected to substantial or unnecessary adverse impacts <br />from noise, vibration, odor, dust or other effects of the operation. The operator may be <br />required to implement measures such as buffers, limited hours, or other mitigating <br />measures to minimize adverse impacts. <br />B. Regulations <br />1. Mining below the OHWM of a river shall be permitted only when: <br />a. Removal of specified quantities of sand and gravel or other materials at specific <br />locations will not adversely affect the natural processes of gravel transportation <br />for the river system as a whole; and <br />b. The mining and any associated permitted activities will not have significant <br />adverse impacts to habitat for priority species nor cause a net loss of ecological <br />functions of the shoreline. <br />c. Determination of whether the two provisions above have been met shall be made <br />consistent with RCW 90.58.100(1) and WAC 173-26-201(2)(a). Such evaluation <br />of impacts should be appropriately integrated with relevant environmental review <br />requirements of SEPA (RCW Chapter 43.21C) and the SEPA rules (WAC <br />Chapter 197-11). <br />d. In considering renewal, extensions or reauthorization of gravel bar and other in- <br />channel mining operations in locations where they have previously been <br />conducted, local government shall require compliance with this subsection (1) to <br />the extent that no such review has previously been conducted. Where there has <br />been prior review, local government shall review previous determinations