6.110A.040 Environmental services review fees.

Fees for review activities included in Table 6.110A.040 shall be collected prior to processing the application.

Table 6.110A.040 Preliminary/Final Environmental Review Fees 

Section				Activity		Fee	Issuance Fee
1				Environmental Services Fees 1, 9, 10, 12
	A			AG Management Plan
					Habitat agriculture plan	Free	N/A
	B			Applicant Initiated Hold/Open Record for Hearing 2
					Any critical area case type	$174	N/A
	C			Appeals to Hearing Examiner
		I			Appeals of an environmental permit decision4 or appeals of community development or public works cases where the appeal could affect critical area permits or have environmental impacts	$200	$94
		II			Reconsideration by hearings examiner	Reimburse county at hourly rate of examiner	$94
	D			Building Permit Applicability (not including site visit)
					Office review for forest/habitat/wetland ordinance applicability 3	$135	N/A
	E			Final Wetland Permit
					All types	$1,922	N/A
	F			Forest Practice 5
		I			Conversion option harvest plan (COHP) with approved current use timber management plan	$542	$94
		II			COHP without approved current use timber management plan	$1,030	$94
		III			Class IV G	$1,882	$94
		IV			Hazard tree removal determination, stand alone	$135	$94
		V			Open space/current use taxation	$1,882	N/A
		VI			Type I, single-family dwelling moratorium waiver	$624	$94
		VII			Non-exempt Class I forest practices	$425	$94
		VIII			Type III moratorium waivers 4	$4,090	$94
	G			Habitat Stewardship Plan 5
						$597	$94
	H			Monitoring Review (paid for each year of monitoring)
		I			Single permit monitoring	$395	N/A
		II			Additional fee if both HAB and WET monitoring are combined	$146	N/A
	I			Pre-Application Conference Fee
					Environmental review (in addition to any engineering or planning fee)	$137	N/A
	J			Pre-Determination/Determinations Concurrent with Permit Review
		I			Standard determination (up to 40-acre sites)	$489	$94
		II			Additional fee if both WET and HAB determinations are combined	$177	$94
		III			Mapping error review only	Free	N/A
		IV			Large/lineal/multi-site projects (sites over 40 acres in size or multiple noncontiguous sites)	Cost recovery 8	$94
	K			Public Hearing Fee (paid with all appeals and Type III environmental permits)
		I			Base fee	$2,461	N/A
		II			Hearing continuance fee	$1,456	N/A
	L			Renoticing 2
					Base fee	$189	N/A
	M			Revised Plan Reviews 7
					Prior to permit issuance	$367	N/A
	N			SEPA Review
		I			Stand alone SEPAs only	$1,528	$94
		II			EIS Review 8	Cost recovery 8	$94
	O			Site Inspection Fee 5
					Including each re-inspection	$230	N/A
	P			Stormwater Review (Wetland Protection)
					Stormwater plan review	$439	N/A
	Q			Type I Permit Reviews 5
					Each Type I HAB or WET permit review (with valid determination)	$304	$94
	R			Type II and III Permit Reviews 4
		I			First HAB or WET permit review (with valid determination) 5	$768	$94
		II			Additional fee if both WET and HAB determinations are combined	$373	$94

Notes:

1    Where a special study is required and the county lacks the expertise to review and comment on the study, the applicant shall pay for an independent consultant with the required expertise. The county shall contract with the independent consultant and require them to review the special study and make recommendation to the county as part of the preliminary plan review process.

2    Written request for rescheduling and renoticing of the hearing will be accepted if filed within fourteen (14) days of the original public hearing notice mailing. After this fourteen (14) day period only requests for a hearing continuance will be accepted.

3    Applicants may request a site visit if they want staff to see the project site prior to determining if a critical area ordinance is applicable. Staff may also require a site visit if there is insufficient information to determine if a critical area ordinance is applicable.

4    A public hearing fee is required to accompany any Type III permit application/project for which DES will hold a hearing.

5    One (1) site inspection fee is required to accompany each application for a critical area permit.

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7    Revised plan reviews are required any time an alternate version of a project or mitigation plan is submitted after staff has reviewed the previous plan. A revised plan fee must be accompanied by an additional site visit fee if staff has already completed a site visit to review impacts for the previous plan version.

8    Cost Recovery. Applicant will be required to sign an agreement that they will pay salary, benefits and overhead for staff or consultant’s fees required to complete the work. The applicant will be sent an itemized billing.

9    Where on-site work (including but not limited to grading, excavating, cutting or construction) is started prior to the issuance of county permits, the application fee shall be doubled. If work is commenced while the application is being processed, permits will not be issued until an additional application fee is paid. This provision is in addition to the enforcement measures contained in Title 32.

10    For review of projects authorized for overtime, an additional fifty percent (50%) will be added to the permit fees, as applicable.

11    The environmental services director may, at his discretion, waive any fees for projects that are undertaken entirely for critical area enhancement or creation. Mitigation and/or restoration activities do not qualify.

12    Environmental services does not accept post decision reviews for plans that are revised after a permit has been issued. At the discretion of the environmental services director, such revised plans would be considered as new critical area permits depending upon the scope of the change and the potential for environmental impacts which were not considered in the existing approved permits. Post decision review applications submitted for community development or public works permits may trigger additional critical areas permits.

(Sec. 1 (Exh. 1) of Ord. 2012-02-03)