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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program 2. The action provides a reasonable likelihood of achieving its intended purpose; 3. The action does not physically preclude achieving the project's primary intended legal use; and 4. ln cases where these guidelines require certain actions unless they are infeasible, the burden of proving infeasibility is on the applicant. ln determining an action's infeasibility, the reviewing agency may weigh the action's relative public costs and public benefits, considered in the short- and long{erm time frames. 41. "Feedlot" means the use of structures or pens for the concentrated feeding or holding of animals or poultry including, but not limited to, horses, cattle, sheep or swine. This definition includes dairy confinement areas, slaughterhouses, shipping terminal holding pens, poultry and/or egg production facilities and fur farms, but does not include animal husbandry and normalfarming practices. 42."Fall'means any solid or semi-solid material that when placed, changes the grade or elevation of the receiving site, including the addition of soil, sand, rock, gravel, sediment, earth retaining structure, or other material to an area watenrvard of the ordinary high water mark (OHWM), in wetlands, or on shorelands in a manner that raises the elevation or creates dry land. 43. "Fish and wildlife habitat conservation area" means Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas (FWHCA)that serve a critical role in sustaining needed habitats and species for the functional integrity of the ecosystem, and which, if altered, may reduce the likelihood that the species will persist over the long term. These areas may include, but are not limited to, rare or vulnerable ecological systems; communities; and habitat or habitat elements including seasonal ranges, breeding habitat, winter range, and movement corridors; and areas with high relative population density or species richness. These areas do not include such artificial features or constructs as irrigation delivery systems, irrigation infrastructure, irrigation canals, or drainage ditches that lie within the boundaries of and are maintained by a port district or an irrigation district or company. Natural watercourses such as streams and ri vers that carrv irriqation water are not considered to be an artificialfeature 44. "Floodplain" is synonymous with one hundred-(100)-year floodplain and means that land area susceptible to inundation with a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The limit of this area shall be based upon flood ordinance regulation maps or a reasonable method which meets the objectives of the act. 45. "Floodway" means the area, as identified in a master program, that either: 1. Has been established in federal emergency management agency flood insurance rate maps or floodway maps (defined as the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood (one hundred-(10O)-year flood) without cumulatively Chapter 2 March 7, 2016 23