This article contains uniform usage and definitions of terms under SEPA. The county adopts the following sections by reference, as supplemented by WAC 173-806-040:
WAC 197-11-700
Definitions.
WAC 197-11-702
Act.
WAC 197-11-704
Action.
WAC 197-11-706
Addendum.
WAC 197-11-708
Adoption.
WAC 197-11-710
Affected tribe.
WAC 197-11-712
Affecting.
WAC 197-11-714
Agency.
WAC 197-11-716
Applicant.
WAC 197-11-718
Built environment.
WAC 197-11-720
Categorical exemption.
WAC 197-11-721
Closed record appeal.
WAC 197-11-722
Consolidated appeal.
WAC 197-11-724
Consulted agency.
WAC 197-11-726
Cost-benefit analysis.
WAC 197-11-728
County/city.
WAC 197-11-730
Decision maker.
WAC 197-11-732
Department.
WAC 197-11-734
Determination of nonsignificance (DNS).
WAC 197-11-736
Determination of significance (DS).
WAC 197-11-738
EIS.
WAC 197-11-740
Environment.
WAC 197-11-742
Environmental checklist.
WAC 197-11-744
Environmental document.
WAC 197-11-746
Environmental review.
WAC 197-11-750
Expanded scoping.
WAC 197-11-752
Impacts.
WAC 197-11-754
Incorporation by reference.
WAC 197-11-756
Lands covered by water.
WAC 197-11-758
Lead agency.
WAC 197-11-760
License.
WAC 197-11-762
Local agency.
WAC 197-11-764
Major action.
WAC 197-11-766
Mitigated DNS.
WAC 197-11-768
Mitigation.
WAC 197-11-770
Natural environment.
WAC 197-11-772
NEPA.
WAC 197-11-774
Nonproject.
WAC 197-11-775
Open record hearing.
WAC 197-11-776
Phased review.
WAC 197-11-778
Preparation.
WAC 197-11-780
Private project.
WAC 197-11-782
Probable.
WAC 197-11-784
Proposal.
WAC 197-11-786
Reasonable alternative.
WAC 197-11-788
Responsible official.
WAC 197-11-790
SEPA.
WAC 197-11-792
Scope.
WAC 197-11-793
Scoping.
WAC 197-11-794
Significant.
WAC 197-11-796
State agency.
WAC 197-11-797
Threshold determination.
WAC 197-11-799
Underlying governmental action.
In addition to those definitions contained within WAC 197-11-700 through 197-11-799, when used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context indicates otherwise:
A. 
"Direct emissions"
means greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuel refineries, fossil fuel transshipment facilities, renewable fuel refineries, or renewable fuel transshipment facilities based upon the refining and processing of fossil fuels located within the Cherry Point Heavy Industrial area.
B. 
"Early notice"
means the county's response to an applicant stating whether it considers issuance of a determination of significance (DS) likely for the applicant's proposal (mitigated determination of nonsignificance (MDNS) procedures).
C. 
"ERC"
means environmental review committee established in WCC § 16.08.045.
D. 
"Greenhouse gas emissions"
means gases that trap heat in the atmosphere. "Greenhouse gas," "greenhouse gases," "GHG," and "GHGs" include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride, and any other gas or gases designated by the federal Clean Air Act (United States Code Title 42, Chapter 85), state Clean Air Act (Chapter 70A.15 RCW) or state limiting greenhouse gas emissions law (Chapter 70A.45 RCW) or any directly superseding provisions of state or federal law.
E. 
"Gross emissions"
means the actual incremental emissions increases or decreases resulting from the project. Gross emissions do not include reductions or additions from off-site mitigation or lifecycle impacts.
F. 
"Indirect emissions"
means emissions resulting from off-site generation of power purchased for consumption at the facility and emissions from other contiguous or adjacent utilities directly supplying the facility (examples include cogeneration of steam, off-site hydrogen production).
G. 
"Lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions"
means the aggregate quantity of greenhouse gas emissions (including direct emissions and significant indirect emissions), related to the full fuel lifecycle, including all stages of fuel and feedstock production and distribution, from feedstock generation or extraction through the distribution and delivery and use of the finished fuel to the ultimate consumer, where the mass values for all greenhouse gases are adjusted to account for their relative global warming potential.
H. 
"Ordinance"
means the procedure used by the county to adopt regulatory requirements.
I. 
"Responsible official"
shall mean the director of the department which bears responsibilities for the SEPA process or his/her designee.
J. 
"SEPA rules"
means Chapter 197-11 WAC adopted by the Department of Ecology.
(Ord. 84-122 Part 8; Ord. 98-048 Exh. A; Ord. 2021-046 § 2 (Exh. B))