"""" ...... I would be extremely reluctant to use state resources to weigh in on one side of a disputed permit application pending before a federal agency."""""

Reluctant to use State resources? This is a WDFW/State permit application. Not ours. How much more "State" can it get? The State has already put $3-$4 million into it, not counting administrative pay over the last 6 years the file has been active.

We're not a rogue group demanding some outlandish goal. This is the path prescribed by law for the permitting process; there is no alternate path. We're supporting the State WDFW's objective. We're asking why, when WDFW has used/paid for Northwest Marine Fisheries Service biologists, State biologist, State and private engineers and so on, that the Corps cannot timely processing of an application that they provided in the first place. ( p.s. today is Day 2,111 since the permit app was delivered to the Corps.)

Please clarify why you would would be reluctant to use resources to support a state WDFW objective that obtained its Shoreline Development Permit in 2011, is 90% complete, and provides what the local constituency overwhelmingly support?