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Washington Department of Health, EPA National Estuary Program Pathogens Grant: Pollution Identification and Correction, at http://www.doh.wa.gov/CommunityandEnvironment/Shellfish/EPAGrants/PathogensGrant/PIC (last visited January 19, 2016). 743 Id. 744 Skagit County, The Clean Water Program: History, at http://www.skagitcounty.net/Departments/PublicWorksCleanWater/history.htm (last visited January 20, 2016). 745 Id. 746 Id. 747 Id. 748 Id. 749 Skagit County Code 6.68.090 (2016). 750 Ecology, Samish Bay Water Quality: Yours to Protect, at http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/tmdl/samish/index.html (January 20, 2016). 751 Samish Basin: Keeping Shellfish Beds Open 11 (October 6, 2014), at http://www.psp.wa.gov/downloads/EM/Samish Basin_EM_Narrative_Oct 6_2014.pdf (last visited January 21, 2016). 752 Id. 753 Ecology, Focus on the Clean Samish Initiative, Ecology Publication No. 09-10-020 (September 2010) at 1. 754 Skagit County Public Works Department, Clean Water Skagit County 2013 Annual Report (2013). 755 Skagit County, Clean Water, Samish Basin Water Quality Monitoring, at http://www.skagitcounty.net/Departments/PublicWorksCleanWater/samplearchive.htm (last visited January 20, 2016) (“As a response to this problem, Skagit County has embarked on a Pollution Identification and Correction (PIC) program designed to determine pollution sources in the basin. One of the first steps in this process is to increase both sampling frequency and number of sample locations.”). 756 Compare Puget Sound Partnership, 2014-2015 Action Agenda (2014) (see Tasks C.1.6.3, C.3.2) (The Puget Sound Partnership has determined a need for greater capacity for enforcement, and has set a goal for Ecology to “ensure compliance with regulatory programs designed to reduce, control, or eliminate pollution from working farms.”); with Skagit County Public Works Department, Clean Water Skagit County 2013 Annual Report 4 (2013) (“Enforcement is only used when attempts at voluntary compliance have been unsuccessful.”). 757 Skagit County Public Works Department, Clean Water Skagit County 2013 Annual Report (2013). 758 See Skagit County Clean Water YouTube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwuLDlXdSK8IsCvoJKHB5WA (last visited January 27, 2016). 759 Applied Research Northwest, LLC, Final Report Clean Samish Initiative Social Marketing Plan Survey Results (March 2015) at iv. 760 Id. at 5. 761 Id. 762 Id. 763 Email from Ron Cummings (Ecology) to Ecology Staff re: FW: Monday’s Shellfish Coordination Group Agenda (Dec 2, 2014) (on file with author). 764 Id. 765 Skagit County, Clean Samish Initiative, at http://www.skagitcounty.net/Departments/PublicWorksCleanWater/cleansamish.htm (last visited January 20, 2016) (with links to videos entitled Bigfoot’s port-a-potty, Bigfoot’s swim lesson, Bigfoot: Man’s best friend, and Bigfoot cleans up!). 766 See Skagit County Public Works, Clean Samish Initiative Winter/Spring 2015 Newsletter 3 (2015), at http://www.skagitcounty.net/PublicWorksCleanWater/Documents/2015 Winter CSI Newsletter.pdf, (last visited January 20, 2016) (“We want to make it as easy as possible for you to do the right thing!”). 767 Skagit County Clean Water Budget, at http://www.skagitcounty.net/Departments/PublicWorksCleanWater/budget.htm (last visited January 21, 2016).

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