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A MOTION relating Lower Green River Corridor Plan; describing the Plan as a proposal; describing the goals, purposes and alternatives of the proposal; setting the reasonable alternatives of the proposal for SEPA EIS scoping; directing the responsible official to begin SEPA review; and establishing the charter for and membership of a Lower Green River Corridor Plan Advisory Committee and Technical Working Group.
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WHEREAS, the King County Flood Control District ("District") through Resolution FCD2016-05 directed the District executive director to prepare a work plan and budget for a Lower Green River Corridor Plan ("LGRCP") and to initiate a request for proposal for a consultant to prepare a State Environmental Policy Act ("SEPA") programmatic environmental impact statement ("EIS") for the LGRCP; and
WHEREAS, the LGRCP is a follow-up plan to the Interim System-Wide Improvement Framework ("Interim SWIF") submitted to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for acceptance in February 2016, and accepted by the Corps on March 31, 2017; and
WHEREAS, the Interim SWIF maintains eligibility for flood damage repairs under the federal PL 84-99 Program, but does not include projects to extend flood protection and does not address multiple objectives; and
WHEREAS, through Resolution FCD2016-05 the District determined that the broader objectives supported by stakeholders who participated as SWIF advisors can best be achieved through a long-range planning process that includes a SEPA EIS that can analyze cumulative impacts and reasonable alternatives for accomplishing the objectives of flood protection, economic vitality, equity and social justice, habitat restoration, housing, recreation, salmon recovery, water quality, and other issues to be defined through the environmental impact statement scoping process; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 86.15 RCW established the purposes and powers of a flood control zone district which includes planning, constructing, acquiring...

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