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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Chapter 2 30 March 7, 2016 State Department of Ecology. 95.96. "Structure" means a permanent or temporary edifice or building, or any piece of work artificially built or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, whether installed on, above, or below the surface of the ground or water, except for vessels. 96.97. "Structure, in-stream" see definition for "In-stream Structure." 97.98. "Substantial development" as defined by RCW 90.58.030(3)(e). 98.99. "Transmit" means to send from one (1) person or place to another by mail or hand delivery. The date of transmittal for mailed items is the date that the document is certified for mailing or, for hand-delivered items, is the date of receipt at the destination. 99.100. “Type F water” means streams and waterbodies that are known to be used by fish, or meet the physical criteria to be potentially used by fish. Fish streams may or may not have flowing water all year; they may be perennial or seasonal. 100.101. “Type Np water” means streams that have flow year round and may have spatially intermittent dry reaches downstream of perennial flow. Type Np streams do not meet the physical criteria of a Type F stream. 101.102. “Type Ns water” means stream that do not have surface flow during at least some portion of the year, and do not meet the physical criteria of a Type F water. 102.103. “Type S water” means streams and waterbodies that are designated as “shorelines of the state.” 103.104. "Water-dependent use" means a use or portion of a use which cannot exist in a location that is not adjacent to the water and which is dependent on the water by reason of the intrinsic nature of its operations. 104.105. "Water-enjoyment use" means a recreational use or other use that facilitates public access to the shoreline as a primary characteristic of the use; or a use that provides for recreational use or aesthetic enjoyment of the shoreline for a substantial number of people as a general characteristic of the use and which through location, design, and operation ensures the public's ability to enjoy the physical and aesthetic qualities of the shoreline. In order to qualify as a water - enjoyment use, the use must be open to the general public and the shoreline - oriented space within the project must be devoted to the specific aspects of the use that fosters shoreline enjoyment. 105.106. "Water-oriented use" means a use that is water-dependent, water- related, or water-enjoyment, or a combination of such uses.