Board Members
"Your Right to Be Heard"
An online pamphlet describing practice before the ELUHB and procedures for filing a new appeal.
Other Resources
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About the ELUHB
The Environmental and Land Use Hearings Board was established in 2003, within the Environmental Hearings Office, created under RCW 43.21B.005. The Environmental and Land Use Hearings Board is composed of six members as provided in RCW 90.58.170, three of which are the Shorelines Hearings Board members serving as the Pollution Control Hearings Board, who are full time employees appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate. At least one member is an attorney. The three other members, who serve part time are: the State Land Commissioner or designee, a representative from the Washington State Association of Counties, and one from the Association of Washington Cities. The chairperson of the Pollution Control Hearings Board shall be the chairperson of the Environmental and Land Use Hearings Board.
Governing chapters:
1) RCW 43.21L.005 The purpose of this chapter is to reform the process of appeal and review final permit decisions made by state agencies and local governments for qualifying economic development projects, by establishing uniform, expedited, and coordinated appeal procedures and uniform criteria for reviewing such decisions, in order to provide consistent, predictable, and timely review. The appeal process authorized in this chapter is intended to be the exclusive process for review of final decisions made by state agencies and local governments on permit applications for qualifying economic development projects, superseding other existing administrative board and judicial appeal procedures.
2) RCW 43.21L.010(6). "Qualifying project" means an economic development project that is (a) located within a county that in its entirety qualifies as a distressed area as defined in RCW 43.168.020(3) and a rural natural resources impact area as defined in RCW 43.160.020,(b), designed to provide at least thirty full-time year-round jobs, and (c) designated as a qualifying project by the Office of Permit Assistance established under chapter 43.42 RCW if a request for a determination of such designation is made to the office by the project applicant as provided under this chapter.
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