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possible adoption of performance standards for siting, maintenance, and monitoring. These performance standards shall include best management practices. U-P14: Kittitas County recognizes reclamation irrigation districts within Kittitas County as utilities. Kittitas County also recognizes smaller private and cooperative irrigation water providers, including but not limited to: • Westside Irrigation Company • Taneum Ditch Company • Bull Ditch Company U-P15: Kittitas County recognizes that some county easements and rights-of-way provide current and historic water conveyance. Kittitas County also recognizes the damage done to roadways by some of these conveyances. Kittitas County will allow current conveyances where properly maintained and operated but will assume no liability or responsibility for delivery of irrigation water, including maintenance of ditches, unless conducive to good roadside management practices. New irrigation conveyances may be installed within the county easement or right-of-way but must be separated from the county roadside ditch. U-P16: It is the position of Kittitas County that it is inappropriate for utilities to over or under build other utilities. A specific example of such requirements may be found in RCW 35A.14.900 and other state law. U-P17: Kittitas County encourages the extension of utilities to major industrial developments. U-P18: Utilities may be extended to serve a Master Planned Resort or Fully _Contained Community, which is approved pursuant to County Comprehensive Plan policies and development regulations, so long as all costs associated with utility and service extension and capacity increases directly attributable to the MPR or Fully Contained Community are fully borne by the resort or community. To the extent state law (including without limitations a tariff filed with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC) requires contrary cost allocations, such state law shall control. U-P19: Capital Facilities and Utilities may be sited, constructed, and operated by outside public service providers (or sited, constructed, and/or operated jointly with a Master Planned Resort (MPR), limited area of more intensive rural development (LAM I RD), or Fully Contained Community to the extent elsewhere permitted), on property located outside of an urban growth area if such facilities and utilities are located within the boundaries of such resort or community which is approved pursuant to County Comprehensive Plan policies and development regulations. U-P20: Electric and natural gas transmission and distribution facilities may be sited within and through areas of Kittitas County both inside and outside of municipal boundaries, UGA's, Master Planned Resorts, LAM I RDS, and Fully Contained Communities, including to and through rural areas of Kittitas County. U-P21: Encourage joint electric utility construction standards for all electrical infrastructure constructed in the UGA. In the interim, Puget Sound Energy and the Kittitas County Public Utility District will allow the City of Ellensburg to review any new construction in the UGA. U-P22: The Kittitas County's plan for utility facilities will be formulated, interpreted and applied in a manner consistent with and complimentary to the serving utility's public service obligations. Page 78