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What projects are exempt from the Basic Requirements of the SRSM?
- Commercial agriculture as regulated under RCW Chapter 84.34.020, except for the construction of impervious surfaces related to commercial agriculture;
- Forest practices regulated under WAC title 222, except for Class IV General Forest Practices that are conversions from timberland to other uses;
- Oil and gas field activities or operations, including construction of drilling sites, waste management pits, access roads, and transportation and treatment infrastructure such as pipelines, natural gas treatment plants, natural gas pipeline compressor stations and crude oil pumping stations;
- Actions by a public utility or any other governmental agency to remove or alleviate an emergency condition, restore utility service, or reopen a public thoroughfare to traffic;
- Records of survey, boundary line adjustments, and property aggregations, unless the action affects drainage tracts and easements;
- Projects that, when completed, will not have physically disturbed the land;
- Operation and maintenance or repair of existing facilities; and,
- Road and parking area preservation/maintenance projects such as:
- Pothole and square cut patching;
- Crack sealing;
- Shoulder grading;
- Reshaping or regarding of drainage systems;
- Vegetation maintenance.
