County withdraws and reissues SEPA determination after tribal-notification oversight
Planner Alan Thomson said the county withdrew an earlier SEPA determination because legal counsel indicated tribes had not been notified; a new SEPA was to be issued the next morning with a 14-day comment period ending Jan. 22.
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Alan Thomson, Whitman County Planner, told the Planning Commission that the county officially withdrew its previous SEPA determination because legal counsel said the tribes had not been notified. "The previous SEPA decision has been withdrawn officially... legal counsel felt that it was necessary to notify the tribes about the decision," Thomson said, and staff planned to reissue the SEPA the following morning to start a new 14-day comment period.
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