To persons interested in the Nonhighway and Off-Road Vehicle Activities Program
(NOVA) and the National Recreational Trails Program:
Last year, after passage of the NOVA bill (Substitute House Bill 2489), the
Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC) and the NOVA Advisory
Committee proceeded directly to updating the related policy manuals and
processing the first group of applications. At that time, things moved so
quickly that there was no time to update the NOVA Plan for consistency with the
new law.
Now, however, we have started that update process. That is, we have reviewed
the current plan and have prepared a draft for adoption by IAC. In this draft,
we have focused on updating:
a.. · the acknowledgements page
b.. · definitions
c.. · the text to make it consistent with the new law, eliminate redundancies
and make clarifications, and
d.. · the organization, primarily by integrating the nonhighway road,
nonmotorized and ORV policies into a single section.
On the web
[http://www.iac.wa.gov/Documents/IAC/Grants/NOVA/Draft_plan_cvr_ltr.pdf] we have
placed two links to Word documents showing the revisions. One is a little
easier to read as it is the "clean" document without additions and deletions.
The other document shows the additions and deletions. Please respond to me
with any comments you may have by July 1. Our intent is to seek IAC board
approval when it meets on September 15-16.