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tfocuMAtat usually sr« tft« b«st sourcus of inforMition <br />concorning th« cspatoility of soils for agricultural or <br />tfsvolopsont activity. Khan thcss docucents ars not <br />svsilablo, it is fiocossary and raaaonabla to dafina staap <br />slopas as lands that ara in axcaas of 121 slop# or aoro. <br />sinca county soil survays and tachnical raports ganarally <br />bagin to includa cautionary statasants about soils <br />capability whan thasa conditions axist. Tha raquiraaant <br />that tha slop# beritontal COTponant ba 50 fast or etora is <br />basad on tha ralationship that slopa langth has to soil <br />arosion potantial. Canarally. tha longar tha slopa tha <br />graatar tha potantial for arosion. A slopa langth of 50 <br />tmmt is nacassary to axcluda thosa araas cozzonly found in <br />shoraland that say hava a 12% slopa or graatar but only ovar <br />ralstivaly short araas with sinisal potantial for soil <br />arosion. For axaapla, ica ridgas and small natural tarracas <br />or banchas of land along laka or rivar shoralinas would not <br />ba considarad as staap slopas unlass thay ara long anouqh to <br />t tha abova dafinition. <br />It is raasonabla to aP'w vagatation claaring outsida of tha <br />praviously mantionad «raas if tha activity is consistant <br />with accaptad format xanagaaant practicas and soil arosion <br />control practicas sinca this is vhara davalopmant will taka <br />placa according to tha structura satback raquiraaants for <br />tha particular shoraland araa. It is also raasonabla to <br />allow lioitad claaring of traas and shrubs within thasa <br />araas as long as it is tha ainisua nacassary to saat tha <br />spocific naads of tha landownar to placa tha facilitias or <br />conduct tha activitias that ara allowad in thasa araas. As <br />a condition of allowing vagatativa altarations in tha shora <br />and bluff impact sonas and on staap slopas, it is nacassary <br />to spacify parformanca standards and provisions to ansura <br />that soil, vagetation, watar and aasthatic rasourcas of <br />thasa araas will ba proparly nanaged. <br />A notabla benafit of tha proposed rule languaga and <br />atranga&ant is that local units of govamsent are not <br />raquirad to issua writtan parmits for vagatativa alteration, <br />thereby reducing costs to these units. Instead, landowners <br />wishing to conduct vegetative alteration activities need <br />only comply with tha listed performance criteria, which is <br />intended to bo published in informational brochures and <br />distributed to local units and handed out to shoraland <br />owners. <br />As stated in iten B it is necessary to require tha issuance <br />of local panaita for tha grading or filling of the <br />topography in shora and bluff impact zones and on steep <br />slopas that involves ten or store cubic yards of material