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Commenting open: March 25, 2025 12:00AM PT - May 22, 2025 11:59PM PT.

Performance-based approach methods document for site-specific natural conditions criteria

The Department of Ecology is accepting comments on the revised draft of a methods document that provides the information and process we must follow to calculate water quality criteria based on a waterbody's natural conditions. This document is called A Performance-Based Approach for Developing Site-Specific Natural Conditions Criteria for Aquatic Life in Washington.


This document details the process Ecology will use to develop natural conditions site specific criteria. It is not rule language – it supports the natural conditions provisions in the surface water quality standards in Chapter 173-201A Washington Administrative Code (WAC). 


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Comments are accepted from 12 a.m. on March 25 until 11:59 p.m. on May 22, 2025.


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