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uuuuStgil EilvtrtupE tu. t E, JUaE r-Jouu-lnzo-onao-/ ztuuuoAEzou Page 15 of20State of Washington Department of Ecology Agreement No: SWMLSWFA-2025-KiCPHD-00230 Pmject Title: SWE Kittitas County PHD Recipient Name: KITTITAS COUNTY PUBLIC HEALIH DEPARTMENT The decision of ECOLOGY from an appeal will be final and conclusive, unless within thirry (30) days frorn the date of such decision, the RECIPIENT fumishes to the Director of ECOLOGY a written appeal. The decision of the Director or duly authorized representative will be final and conclllsive. The parties agree that this dispute process will precede any action in a judicial or quasi-judicialtribunal. Appeals of the Director's decision will be brought in the Superior Court of Thurston County. Review of the Director's decision will not be taken to Environmental and Land Use Hearings Office. Pending final decision of a dispute, the RECIPIENT agrees to proceed diligently with the performance of this Agreement and in accordance with the decision rendered. Nothing in this Agreernent will be construed to limit the parties'choice of another mutually acceptable method, in addition to the dispute resolution procedure outlined above. 12. ENVIRONMENTAL DATA STANDARDS a) RECIPIENT shall prepare a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for a project that collects or uses environmental measurement data. RECIPIENTS unsure about whether a QAPP is required for their project shall contact the ECOLOGY Program issuing the grant or loan. If a QAPP is required, the RECIPIENT shall: . Use ECOLOGY's QAPP Template/Checklist provided by the ECOLOGY, unless ECOLOGY Quality Assurance (QA) officer or the Program QA coordinator instructs otherwise. . Follow ECOLOGY's Guidelines for Preparing Quality Assurance Project Plans for Environmental Studies, July 2004 (Ecology Publication No. 04-03-030). . Submit the QAPP to ECOLOGY for review and approval before the start of the work. b) RECIPIENT shall subrnit environmental datathat was collected on a project to ECOLOGY using the Environmental Information Management system (EIM), unless the ECOLOGY Program instructs otherwise. The RECIPIENT must confinn with ECOLOGY that complete and correct data was successfully loaded into EIM, find instructions at: http ://www. ecy. wa. gov/eim. c) RECIPIENT shall follow ECOLOGY's data standards when Geographic Information System (GIS) data is collected and processed. Guidelines for Creating and Accessing GIS Data are available at: https://ecology.wa.gov/Research-Data/Data-resources/Geographic-lnformation-Systems-GIS/Standards. RECIPIENT, when requested by ECOLOGY, shall provide copies to ECOLOGY of all final GIS data layers, imagery, related tables, raw data collection files, map products, and all metadata and project documentation. 13. GOVERNINC LAW This Agreement will be govemed by the laws of the State of Washington, and the venue of any action brought hereunder will be in the Superior Court of Thurston County. 14. INDEMNIFICATION ECOLOGY will in no way be held responsible for payment of salaries, consultant's fees, and other costs related to the project described herein, except as provided in the Scope of Work. To the extent that the Constitution and laws of the State of Washington permit, each party will indemnify and hold the other hannless from and against any liability for any or all injuries to persons or property arising from the negligent act or omission of that party or that party's agents or employees arising out of this Agreement. 15. INDEPENDENT STATUS The employees, volunteers, or agents of each parly who are engaged in the performance of this Agreement will continue to be employees, volunteers, or agents of that party and will not for any purpose be employees, volunteers, or agents of the other pafty. Ternplate Version l2ll 0/2020