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WSR 12-17-073
[ Order 11-06 -- Filed August 14, 2012, 10:37 a.m. ]
Preproposal statement of inquiry was filed as WSR 11-14-111.
Title of Rule and Other Identifying Information: Oil spill contingency plan, chapter 173-182 WAC.
Hearing Location(s): Hearing 1 - Marysville combined with a webinar, on September 25, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. - Presentation, question and answer session followed by the formal public hearing.
Webinar: Ecology is also offering this presentation, question and answer session and formal public hearing via webinar. Webinars are an on-line meeting forum that you can attend from any computer using internet access. To participant by phone, you will need to have a phone or computer with phone modem capability. For more information and instructions, go to http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/community_outreach/sppr_webinar.html.
Hearing 2 - Vancouver, on September 27, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. - Presentation, question and answer session followed by the formal public hearing.
Location: Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation, Marshall Community Center, Elm Room, 1009 East McLoughlin Boulevard, Vancouver, WA 98663.
Submit Written Comments to: Sonja Larson, P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600, e-mail spillsrulemaking@ecy.wa.gov, fax (360) 407-7288, by 5:00 p.m. on October 4, 2012.
Assistance for Persons with Disabilities: Contact Mary Ellen-Voss at (360) 407-7211, by September 20, 2012. If you have hearing loss, call TTY 771 or for Washington relay service if you have speech disability call (877)833-6341.
Purpose of the Proposal and Its Anticipated Effects, Including Any Changes in Existing Rules: Ecology is proposing to amend the oil spill contingency planning rule (chapter 173-182 WAC) to implement chapter 122, Laws of 2011 (E2SHB 1186). This rule making will:
Reasons Supporting Proposal: Following the direction of the legislature this rule will require oil spill response system improvements through a combination of best available technology and best available protection.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: Chapters 88.46, 90.48, 90.56 RCW, and chapter 122, Laws of 2011 (E2SHB 1186) authorizes and directs the department of ecology to implement rules on this subject.
Statute Being Implemented: Chapter 122, Laws of 2011 (E2SHB 1186) authorizes and directs the department of ecology to implement rules on this subject.
Name of Agency Personnel Responsible for Drafting: Sonja Larson, Department of Ecology, Lacey, Washington, (360) 407-6682; Implementation and Enforcement: Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Department of Ecology, Lacey, Washington, (360) 407-7447.
Executive Summary: The Washington state department of ecology (ecology) is amending regulatory chapter 173-182 WAC, Oil spill contingency plans, to implement chapter 122, Laws of 2011 (E2SHB 1186). The rule amendments include changes to:
• Enhance the state's current vessels of opportunity system.
• Enhance the state-required notification process to include potential spill threats as well as actual spills.
• Change contingency plan requirements for nonprofit "umbrella" organizations to allow for a planning structure that supports approval of plans with a tiered approach.
• Make other changes related to ecology's contingency plan review and approval process.
Ecology last updated the oil spill contingency planning rule in 2007. Since the last update to the rule, two large oil spills - a spill in San Francisco, California (the Cosco Bursan oil spill) and a spill along the Gulf Coast (the Deepwater Horizon oil spill) - have impacted waters in the United States. These spills provided valuable lessons learned about our preparedness framework, and influenced a change in the law. The rule amendments are intended to incorporate lessons learned to influence changes to specific spill planning standards and drill standards.
Ecology calculated cost-to-employment ratios to examine the relative impacts of the proposed rule amendments on small versus large businesses. Ecology also considered the impacts of the proposed amendments on local governments and other small public entities, to meet the requirements in the Governor's Executive Order 10-06.1 Ecology was not able to get sufficient data for other measures (sales, hours of labor) often used to identify all businesses' ability to cope with compliance costs.
When comparing the per-employee costs of compliance with the proposed rule amendments, for overall program costs, ecology found that small businesses (with fifty or fewer employees) impacted by the rule incur $268 to $8.5 thousand per employee, while the largest ten percent of businesses incur a cost of $5 to $7 per employee.
Ecology's scope in reducing the impacts specifically to small businesses was limited by the scope of this rule making. The above disproportionate impacts, however, are mitigated - if not eliminated - by basic business behaviors and characteristics. The smaller primary response contractors (PRCs) perform limited or specialized tasks, and may not incur the costs of many of the new requirements under the proposed rule amendment - simply because that PRC does not perform those contracted tasks. The large PRCs, on the other hand, perform a broader range of contracted tasks, and are likely to incur more of the new requirements under the proposed rule amendments than small PRCs are. Ultimately, one can argue that no PRC is required to take on any of the prospective new costs under the proposed rule amendments, since none of them are required to be a PRC, and can instead focus on other contracted response tasks.
Based on the Washington state office of financial management's input-output model of the state economy, ecology calculated likely jobs outcomes. As compliance costs reduce direct employment in complying industries, they become transfers of income to other industries that manufacture and support equipment (on-water, aerial), as well as those submitting for vessels of opportunity (VOO) training. Overall, the proposed rule amendments could result in net short-term gains in employment of twenty to forty-seven jobs. These prospective changes in overall employment in the state are actually the sum of multiple small increases and decreases across industries in the state, in addition to larger losses in water transportation, and to the large gains in the aircraft and ship manufacturing industries.
Based on research and analysis required by the Regulatory Fairness Act, RCW 19.85.070, ecology has determined the proposed rule amendments to chapter 173-182 WAC are likely to have a disproportionate impact on small business. Therefore, ecology included cost-minimizing features in the rule where it is legal and feasible to do so.
This document presents the:
This document is intended to be read with the associated cost-benefit analysis (Ecology Publication #12-08-005), which contains more in-depth discussion of the analyses, as well as references and appendices.
A small business is defined as having fifty or fewer employees. Estimated impacts are determined as compared to the existing regulatory environment - the way oil spill contingency planning would be regulated in the absence of the proposed rule amendments.
Description of the proposed rule amendments:
Reasons for the proposed rule amendments:
Following the direction of the legislature in ESHB 1186, the proposed rule amendments would require response system improvements through a combination of best available technology and best available protection. The equipment, training, and planning elements required through these rule amendments strive to pair the right equipment with well-trained personnel. These elements are essential in delivering a rapid, aggressive, and well-coordinated response to large spills.
The proposed rule amendments are a step toward building a response system that utilizes best achievable protection to strengthen our ability to operate safely and continuously at night and during inclement weather conditions including rain, fog, waves, and high currents that are often experienced in Washington state waters.
To this end, the rule requires investment in:
• New aerial surveillance capability.
• Recovery equipment capable in waves and higher encounter rates.
• Training of oil-spill response personnel.
• Vessels of opportunity and crew.
• Technical manuals as a way to communicate how the plan holder's response capability represents best achievable protection, and can be verified over time using the five-year best achievable protection review cycle.
Through the proposed rule amendments, ecology is enhancing the current vessel of opportunity requirements and strengthening our ability to respond to oil spills. The extensive use of commercial fishing and other vessels during the Deepwater Horizon Spill response demonstrated the value of partnering with local marine professionals ahead of a large spill to ensure vessels of opportunity are well-trained and can operate safely as an effective part of spill response.
Regulatory baseline:
In most cases, the regulatory baseline for cost-benefit analysis's (CBA) is the existing rule. Where there is no existing rule, federal and local regulations are the baseline. In the case of the proposed amendments to the oil spill contingency plans rule, the existing rule and existing federal requirements comprise the baseline. See the associated CBA (Ecology Publication 12-08-005) for extensive discussion of the baseline.
Section 2: Compliance Costs.
Different types of covered vessels, facilities, and entities are affected differently by the proposed rule. Most covered vessels use umbrella plans (two approved nonprofit organizations that hold plans for one thousand five hundred vessels in the Columbia River, and one thousand three hundred fifty-three vessels along the outer coast, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and in Puget Sound). There are twenty-eight additional independent approved plans (for individual firms or subsidiaries).
Plan holders in any of these cases (whether they are vessels, facilities, or umbrella plans) may contract with twelve state-approved PRCs to plan, prepare for, and execute required actions.
Ecology multiplied unit costs as calculated in the next section by the expected quantities of compliance behavior with the proposed rules, as based on:
• 1,500 vessels in Columbia River umbrella plan.
• 1,353 vessels in outer coast, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and Puget Sound.
• 28 independent approved contingency plans.
• 12 PRCs.
Ecology estimated present value compliance costs over twenty years.
Ecology estimated costs as follows: For a full discussion of cost calculation methodologies and sources, see the CBA (Ecology Publication #12-08-005). Note that all costs are estimated conservatively high when dealing with uncertainty.
Table 1: Present-Value Costs of the Proposed Rule Amendments
Present-Value Costs of the Proposed Rule Amendments
Cost Low Present Value High Present Value
FLIR plus additional BAT capability2 $300,000 $700,000
Additional spotting resources $691 $1,280
Four-hour planning standard $350,000 $1,750,000
Dedicated on-water storage $250,000 $1,000,000
Dedicated on-water storage maintenance $205,327 $821,308
Describe storage and recovery as systems $1,727 $3,200
Identification of one hundred shore cleanup workers and supervisors $867 $1,600
9 miles passive cleanup equipment $55,000 $55,000
Plan update with process to obtain additional resources $691 $1,280
VOO database (ecology cost) $27,000 $27,000
VOO database ongoing costs (ecology cost) $303,884 $303,884
Vetting VOO $52,703 $64,447
VOO training $3,864,223 $4,330,595
VOO deployment drill $1,210,728 $1,356,850
Identify worst-case discharge volume $22 $40
Identify spill management team for all enrolled members $22 $40
Describe process for activating supplemental resources $1,727 $3,200
Identify and list staff to be deployed $1,036 $1,920
Train staff to be deployed $158,510 $504,350
List response equipment on WRRL (or equivalent) $1,036 $1,920
List all staff, training, VOO, communications assets, remedial substances in contracts $2,073 $3,840
TOTAL 20-YEAR PRESENT VALUE COST $6,787,267 $10,931,754
Many of these costs are assumed to be shared across multiple entities, as allowed by the proposed rule amendments, to minimize compliance costs.
To be able to apply appropriate compliance costs to individual plan holders, ecology separated costs into the following groups:
• Approved vessel plan holder costs.
• Umbrella plan holder costs.
• PRC costs.
• Shared asset costs (shared by the above, as well as facility plan holders).
Table 2: Costs by Group
Approved plan holder costs low high # of entities
Additional spotting resources $691 $1,280 30
Technical manual systems descriptions $1,727 $3,200 8
Contracting time for shoreline cleanup and supervisors $867 $1,600 8
Updating plans for additional resource procedures $691 $1,280 8
Umbrella plan holder costs low high # of entities
Additional spotting resources $691 $1,280 8
Updating plans for additional resource procedures $691 $1,280 30
Identify worst case discharge volume $22 $40 2
Identify spill management team $22 $40 2
Require direct contract for all resource to meet the worst case discharge $1,727 $3,200 2
PRC costs low high # of entities
Identify staff expected to be deployed for oil spills or to meet planning standards $1,036 $1,920 12
Train staff expected to be deployed for oil spills or to meet planning standards $158,510 $504,350 12
List response equipment on WRRL or equivalent $1,036 $1,920 12
Shared asset costs low high # of entities
Mounted FLIR plus additional BAT capability $300,000 $700,000 8
Four Hour Planning standard $350,000 $1,750,000 8
Dedicated on-water storage $250,000 $1,000,000 30
Dedicated on-water storage maintenance $205,327 $821,308 30
9 miles of passive cleanup equipment $55,000 $55,000 8
VOO Vessel Database $27,000 $27,000 Ecology
VOO Vessel database maintenance $303,884 $303,884 Ecology
Vetting VOO $52,703 $64,447 8
VOO Training Specified $3,864,223 $4,330,595 8
VOO Deployment $1,210,728 $1,356,850 8
Section 3: Quantification of Cost Ratios.
Ecology calculated the estimated per-entity costs to comply with the proposed rule amendments. Cost estimates and ranges are for the average or typical plan holder. This causes inherent estimation of disproportionate costs across differently sized businesses. Similarly, different compliance costs for different types of entity [entities] also inherently generate nonuniform costs.
In this section, ecology summarizes compliance cost per employee at plan holders of different sizes. As expected, costs per employee are larger for smaller businesses, since compliance costs are calculated per plan holder, by type only. The table below summarizes total cost per entity, assuming uniform sharing of the costs of shared assets.
Table 3: Costs per Entity, by Type
Low Cost per Entity Low Shared Asset Cost High Cost per Entity High Shared Asset cost Low Total Cost per Entity High Total Cost per Entity
Vessel Plan Holder $434 $744,259 $803 $1,092,822 $744,693 $1,093,624
Umbrella Plan Holder $1,319 $744,259 $2,443 $1,092,822 $745,578 $1,095,264
PRC $13,382 $42,349 $13,382 $42,349
Facility Plan Holder $46 $15,178 $85 $60,710 $15,224 $60,796
The SBEIS only considers costs to "businesses in an industry" in Washington state. This means that impacts, for this document, are not evaluated for nonprofit agencies, or for government agencies. Within this definition, there are no small approved plan or umbrella plan holders. Smaller local offices of larger parent companies are considered based on the size of their parent, as this is a better reflection of ability to cope with compliance costs, relative to independent small businesses.
In the PRC group, two are out-of-state, and one is a nonprofit. These PRCs are excluded from this analysis as well.3 Of the remaining nine PRCs, six are small businesses as defined in the statute governing this analysis (they have fifty or fewer employees). These PRCs would incur per-employee costs between $268 and $8.5 thousand. This range is higher than the comparable range for the largest ten percent of these businesses (one business), of $5 to $17 per employee.
Section 4: Action Taken to Reduce Small Business Impacts.
The above disproportionate impacts are mitigated - if not eliminated - by basic business behaviors and characteristics. The smaller PRCs perform limited or specialized tasks, and may not incur the costs of many of the new requirements under the proposed rule amendment - simply because that PRC does not perform those contracted tasks. The large PRCs, on the other hand, perform a broader range of contracted tasks, and are likely to incur more of the new requirements under the proposed rule amendments than small PRCs are. Ultimately, one can argue that no PRC is required to take on any of the prospective new costs under the proposed rule amendments, since none of them are required to be a PRC, and can instead focus on other contracted response tasks.
Section 5: Small Business and Government Involvement.
During the CR-101 (informal rule-making phase) starting in January 2012, the department convened a special rule advisory committee to provide informal comment on the draft regulation and advise ecology about how environmental, economic and other issues might be addressed. The committee met regularly from January through June 2012. Committee members included invited representatives and observers from:
Many of these committee members represented or were small businesses or local governments.
Ecology met with the rule advisory committee six times between January and June 2012. Each meeting focused on a specific topical area of the rule. Following the meeting, meeting notes and redrafted versions of the rule were developed to be revisited at future meetings. The iterative process helped to ensure sustained participation in the committee and more than one opportunity to comment on the draft language. Ecology prepared press releases, focus sheets and other explanatory materials for distribution to mailing and e-mail lists for each of the committee meetings. In addition, information was posted on the spills program rule web site which details the process and other opportunities for involvement.
Ecology also established special web sites for the proposed rule at www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/rules/1106.html and the rule advisory committee at www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/rules/1106advisorycommittee.html. The initial draft rule, also available for public comment, was constantly updated and improved through this six-month iterative process. Ecology incorporated more than three hundred comments, all of which served to improve the final updated draft rule language.
The department also distributed news releases to media across the state prior to each meeting (see www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2012/022.html, www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2012/061.html, www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2012/092.html, www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2012/121.html, and www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2012/153.html).
Section 6: NAICS Codes of Impacted Industries.
The table below lists NAICS codes for industries ecology expects could be impacted by the proposed rule amendments.4
Table 4: NAICS Codes that Include Businesses Possibly
Needing to Comply with the Proposed Rule Amendments
541711 237120 237310
237110 483113 483211
488330 493190 424710
562910 424720 486110
561990 322110 541614
336611 324110
Section 7: Impact on Jobs.
Ecology used the Washington state office of financial management's 2002 Washington input-output model5 to estimate the impact of the proposed rule on jobs in the state. The model accounts for interindustry impacts and spending multipliers of earned income and changes in output.
The proposed rule will result in transfers of money within and between industries; plan holders and PRCs complying with the proposed rule amendments will pay employees or businesses providing equipment or services, including VOO.
Under the low-cost estimates, the Washington state economy could experience a net gain of twenty-four jobs in the short run (under the proposed rule amendments), as compliance costs transfer funds from complying entities to those manufacturing physical aerial and sea assets, and to training VOO. Similarly, under the high-cost estimates, the Washington state economy could gain forty-six cumulative jobs in the short run, as expenditures on equipment and training support jobs in manufacturing and VOO. These prospective changes in overall employment in the state are actually the sum of multiple small increases and decreases across industries in the state, in addition to the large gains in the aircraft and ship manufacturing industries.
1http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/Executive_Order_10-06.pdf.
2Best available technology.
3Impacts to all entities, public and private, in-state and out-of-state are considered in the cost-benefit analysis, Ecology Publication 12-08-005.
4North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes have largely taken the place of standard industry classification (SIC) codes in the categorization of industries.
5See the Washington State Office of Financial Management's site for more information on the Input-Output model. http://www.ofm.wa.gov/economy/io/2002/default.asp.
A copy of the statement may be obtained by contacting Education and Outreach Specialist, Spills Program, P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600, phone (360) 407-7211, fax (407) 407-7288 [(360) 407-7288], e-mail spillsrulemaking@ecy.wa.gov.
A cost-benefit analysis is required under RCW 34.05.328. A preliminary cost-benefit analysis may be obtained by contacting Education and Outreach Specialist, Spills Program, P.O. Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600, phone (360) 407-7211, fax (407) 407-7288 [(360) 407-7288], e-mail spillsrulemaking@ecy.wa.gov.
OTS-4901.2
(((1))) (a) Maximize the effectiveness and timeliness of oil spill response by plan holders and response contractors;
(((2))) (b) Ensure continual readiness, maintenance of equipment and training of personnel;
(((3))) (c) Support coordination with state, federal, and other contingency planning efforts; ((and
(4))) (d) Provide for the protection of Washington waters, natural, cultural and significant economic resources by minimizing the impact of oil spills; and
(e) For covered vessels, provide the highest level of protection that can be met through the use of best achievable technology and those staffing levels, training procedures, and operational methods that constitute best achievable protection as informed by the BAP five year review cycle (WAC 173-182-621) and as determined by ecology.
(2) The planning standards described in this chapter do not constitute clean-up standards that must be met by the holder of a contingency plan. Failure to remove a discharge within the time periods set out in this section does not constitute failure to comply with a contingency plan, for purposes of this section or for the purpose of imposing administrative, civil, or criminal penalties under any other law so that all reasonable efforts are made to do so. In a spill or drill deployment of equipment and personnel shall be guided by safety considerations. The responsible party must take all actions necessary and appropriate to immediately collect and remove, contain, treat, burn and disperse oil entering waters of the state and address the entire volume of an actual spill regardless of the planning standards.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-010, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) This chapter applies to ((Washington)) nonprofit corporations, their enrolled members, and agents that submit and implement plans on behalf of onshore and offshore facilities and covered vessels.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-015, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(a) Processes that are being developed, or could feasibly be developed, given overall reasonable expenditures on research and development; and
(b) The effectiveness, engineering feasibility, and the commercial availability of the technology.
(((2))) (6) "Bulk" means material that is stored or transported in a loose, unpackaged liquid, powder, or granular form capable of being conveyed by a pipe, bucket, chute, or belt system.
(((3))) (7) "Cargo vessel" means a self-propelled ship in commerce, other than a tank vessel or a passenger vessel, three hundred or more gross tons, including but not limited to commercial fish processing vessels and freighters.
(((4))) (8) "Cascade" means to bring in equipment and personnel to the spill location in a succession of stages, processes, operations, or units.
(((5))) (9) "Contract or letter summarizing contract terms" means:
(b) A letter that: Identifies personnel, equipment and services capable of being provided by the primary response contractor or other provider within stipulated planning standard times; acknowledges that the primary response contractor ((intends to)) or other provider commits the identified resources in the event of an oil spill.
(((6))) (10) "Covered vessel" means a tank vessel, cargo vessel (including fishing and freight vessels), or passenger vessel required to participate in this chapter.
(((7))) (11) "Dedicated" means equipment and personnel committed to oil spill response, containment, and cleanup that are not used for any other activity that would make it difficult or impossible for that equipment and personnel to provide oil spill response services in the time frames specified in this chapter.
(((8))) (12) "Demise charter" means that the owner gives possession of the ship to the charterer and the charterer hires its own master and crew.
(((9))) (13) "Director" means the director of the state of Washington department of ecology.
(((10))) (14) "Discharge" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, or dumping.
(((11))) (15) "Dispersant" means those chemical agents that emulsify, disperse, or solubilize oil into the water column or promote the surface spreading of oil slicks to facilitate dispersal of the oil into the water column.
(((12))) (16) "Effective daily recovery capacity" (EDRC) means the calculated capacity of oil recovery devices that accounts for limiting factors such as daylight, weather, sea state, and emulsified oil in the recovered material.
(((13))) (17) "Ecology" means the state of Washington department of ecology.
(((14))) (18) "Emergency response towing vessel" means a towing vessel stationed at Neah Bay that is available to respond to vessel emergencies upon call out under the contingency plan. The emergency response towing vessel shall be available to the owner or operator of the covered vessel transiting to or from a Washington port through the Strait of Juan de Fuca, except for transits extending no further west than Race Rocks Light, Vancouver Island, Canada.
(((15))) (20) "Geographic Response Plans (GRP)" means response strategies published in the Northwest Area Contingency Plan.
(((16))) (21) "Gross tons" means a vessel's approximate volume as defined under Title 46, United States Code of Federal Regulations, Part 69.
(((17))) (22) "Incident command system (ICS)" means a standardized on-scene emergency management system specifically designed to allow its user(s) to adopt an integrated organizational structure equal to the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents, without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.
(((18))) (23) "In situ burn" means a spill response tactic involving controlled on-site burning, with the aid of a specially designed fire containment boom and igniters.
(((19))) (24) "Interim storage" means a site used to temporarily store recovered oil or oily waste until the recovered oil or oily waste is disposed of at a permanent disposal site.
(((20))) (25) "Maximum extent practicable" means the highest level of effectiveness that can be achieved through staffing levels, training procedures, deployment and tabletop drills incorporating lessons learned, use of enhanced skimming techniques and other best achievable technology. In determining what the maximum extent practicable is, the director shall consider the effectiveness, engineering feasibility, commercial availability, safety, and the cost of the measures.
(((21))) (26) "Mobilization" means the time it takes to get response resources readied for operation and ready to travel to the spill site or staging area.
(((22))) (27) "Navigable waters of the state" means those waters of the state, and their adjoining shorelines, that are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide and/or are presently used, have been used in the past, or may be susceptible for use to transport intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce.
(((23))) (28) "Nondedicated" means those response resources listed by a primary response contractor for oil spill response activities that are not dedicated response resources.
(((24))) (29) "Nonpersistent or group 1 oil" means:
(((a))) (i) At least fifty percent, by volume, distills at a temperature of 340°C (645°F); and
(((b))) (ii) At least ninety-five percent, by volume, distills at a temperature of 370°C (700°F).
(((25))) (b) A nonpetroleum oil with a specific gravity less than 0.8.
(30) "Nonpetroleum oil" means oil of any kind that is not petroleum-based, including but not limited to: Biological oils such as fats and greases of animals and vegetable oils, including oils from seeds, nuts, fruits, and kernels.
(31) "Northwest Area Contingency Plan (NWACP)" means the regional emergency response plan developed in accordance with federal requirements. In Washington state, the NWACP serves as the statewide master oil and hazardous substance contingency plan required by RCW 90.56.060.
(((26))) (32) "Offshore facility" means any facility located in, on, or under any of the navigable waters of the state, but does not include a facility, any part of which is located in, on, or under any land of the state, other than submerged land.
(((27))) (33) "Oil" or "oils" means oil of any kind that is liquid at atmospheric temperature and pressure and any fractionation thereof, including, but not limited to, crude oil, petroleum, gasoline, fuel oil, diesel oil, oil sludge, oil refuse, biological oils and blends, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil. Oil does not include any substance listed in Table 302.4 of 40 C.F.R. Part 302 adopted August 14, 1989, under section 101(14) of the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended by P.L. 99-499.
(((28))) (34) "Oily waste" means oil contaminated waste resulting from an oil spill or oil spill response operations.
(((29))) (35) "Onshore facility" means any facility, as defined in subsection (14) of this section, any part of which is located in, on, or under any land of the state, other than submerged land, that because of its location, could reasonably be expected to cause substantial harm to the environment by discharging oil into or on the navigable waters of the state or the adjoining shorelines.
(((30))) (36) "Operating environments" means the conditions in which response equipment is designed to function. Water body classifications will be determined using criteria found in the ASTM Standard Practice for Classifying Water Bodies for Spill Control Systems.
(((31))) (37) "Operational period" means the period of time scheduled for execution of a given set of operational actions as specified in the incident action plan. The operational period coincides with the completion of one planning cycle.
(38) "Owner" or "operator" means:
(b) In the case of an onshore or offshore facility, any person owning or operating the facility; ((and))
(c) In the case of an abandoned vessel or onshore or offshore facility, the person who owned or operated the vessel or facility immediately before its abandonment((.)); and
(((32))) (39) "Passenger vessel" means a ship of greater than three hundred gross tons with a fuel capacity of at least six thousand gallons carrying passengers for compensation.
(((33))) (40) "Passive recovery" means a tactic that uses absorbent material to mitigate impacts to shorelines.
(41) "Persistent oil" means:
(((a))) (i) Group 2 - Specific gravity greater than or equal to 0.8000 and less than 0.8500. API gravity less than or equal to 45.00 and greater than 35.0;
(((b))) (ii) Group 3 - Specific gravity greater than or equal to 0.8500, and less than 0.9490. API gravity less than or equal to 35.0 and greater than 17.5;
(((c))) (iii) Group 4 - Specific gravity greater than or equal to 0.9490 and up to and including 1.0. API gravity less than or equal to 17.5 and greater than 10.00; and
(((d))) (iv) Group 5 - Specific gravity greater than 1.0000. API gravity equal to or less than 10.0.
(((34))) (b) A nonpetroleum oil with a specific gravity of 0.8 or greater. These oils are further classified based on specific gravity as follows:
(42) "Person" means any political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, public or private corporation, co-partnership, association, firm, individual, or any other entity whatsoever.
(((35) "Pipeline" means a pipeline connected to a facility, and not owned or operated by the facility referred to in subsection (14) of this section.
(36))) (43) "Pipeline tank farm" means a facility that is linked to a pipeline but not linked to a vessel terminal.
(((37))) (44) "Plan" means oil spill response, cleanup, and disposal contingency plan for the containment and cleanup of oil spills into the waters of the state and for the protection of fisheries and wildlife, shellfish beds, natural resources, and public and private property from such spills as required by RCW 90.56.210 and 88.46.060.
(((38))) (45) "Plan holder" means all covered facility owner/operators required to submit contingency plans, all covered vessel owner/operators required to submit contingency plans or enroll under a vessel umbrella plan and the umbrella plan holders that submit contingency plans on behalf of multiple covered vessels owner/operators or facility owner/operators.
(46) "Planning standards" means goals and criteria that ecology will use to assess whether a plan holder is prepared to respond to the maximum extent practicable to a worst case spill. Ecology will use planning standards for reviewing oil spill contingency plans and evaluating drills.
(((39))) (47) "Primary response contractor (PRC)" means a response contractor that has been approved by ecology and is directly responsible to a contingency plan holder, either by a contract or other approved written agreement.
(((40))) (48) "Public vessel" means a vessel that is owned, or demise chartered, and is operated by the United States government, or a government of a foreign country, and is not engaged in commercial service.
(((41))) (49) "Regional response list" means a regional equipment list established and maintained by spill response equipment owners in the northwest area.
(((42))) (50) "Regional vessels of opportunity response group" means a group of nondedicated vessels participating in a vessel of opportunity response system to respond when needed and available.
(51) "Resident" means the spill response resources are staged at a location within the described planning area.
(((43))) (52) "Responsible party" means a person liable under RCW 90.56.370.
(((44))) (53) "Ship" means any boat, ship, vessel, barge, or other floating craft of any kind.
(((45))) (54) "Spill" means an unauthorized discharge of oil which enters waters of the state.
(((46))) (55) "Spill assessment" means determining product type, potential spill volume, environmental conditions including tides, currents, weather, river speed and initial trajectory as well as a safety assessment including air monitoring.
(((47))) (56) "Systems approach" means the infrastructure and support resources necessary to mobilize, transport, deploy, sustain, and support the equipment to meet the planning standards, including mobilization time, trained personnel, personnel call out mechanisms, vehicles, trailers, response vessels, cranes, boom, pumps, storage devices, etc.
(57) "Tank vessel" means a ship that is constructed or adapted to carry, or that carries, oil in bulk as cargo or cargo residue, and that:
(((48))) (58) "Technical manual" means a manual intended to be used as a planning document to support the evaluation of best achievable protection systems for potential response capability of plan holder owned and PRC dedicated and nondedicated equipment.
(59) "Transmission pipeline" means a pipeline whether interstate or intrastate, subject to regulation by the United States Department of Transportation under 49 C.F.R. 195, as amended through December 5, 1991, through which oil moves in transportation, including line pipes, valves, and other appurtenances connected to line pipe, pumping units, and fabricated assemblies associated with pumping units.
(((49))) (60) "Transfer site" means a location where oil is moved in bulk on or over waters of the state to or from a covered vessel by means of pumping, gravitation, or displacement.
(((50))) (61) "Recovery system" means a skimming device, storage work boats, boom, and associated material needed such as pumps, hoses, sorbents, etc., used collectively to maximize oil recovery.
(((51))) (62) "Umbrella plan" means a single plan that is prepared by a plan holder to cover((s)) multiple vessels ((or facilities)).
(((52))) (63) "Vessels of opportunity response system" means nondedicated vessels and operating personnel, including fishing and other vessels, available to assist in spill response when necessary. The vessels of opportunity are under contract with and equipped by contingency plan holders to assist with oil spill response activities including, but not limited to, on-water oil recovery in the near shore environment, the placement of oil spill containment booms to protect sensitive habitats, and providing support of logistical or other tactical actions.
(64) "Vessel terminal" means a facility that is located on marine or river waters and transfers oil to or from a tank vessel.
(((53))) (65) "Waters of the state" means all lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, inland waters, underground water, salt waters, estuaries, tidal flats, beaches and lands adjoining the seacoast of the state, sewers, and all other surface waters and watercourses within the jurisdiction of the state of Washington.
(((54))) (66) "Worst case spill" means:
(((55))) (67) "WRIA" means a water resource inventory area as defined in chapter 173-500 WAC.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 90.56, 88.46, 90.48 RCW. 07-22-119 (Order 07-14), § 173-182-030, filed 11/7/07, effective 12/8/07; 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-030, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(c) A ((Washington state)) nonprofit corporation established for the purpose of oil spill response and contingency plan coverage and of which the tank vessel owner or operator is a member; or
(d) A PRC contractually obligated to provide containment and cleanup services to the tank vessel company.
(a) The owner or operator of the covered vessel; or
(b) The agent for the covered vessel provided that the agent resides in this state; or
(c) A ((Washington state)) nonprofit corporation established for the purpose of oil spill response and contingency plan coverage and of which the covered vessel owner or operator is a member; or
(d) A PRC contractually obligated to provide containment and cleanup services to the covered vessel company.
(b) A PRC contractually obligated to provide containment and cleanup services to the facility.
(4) One plan, or one umbrella plan, may be submitted for multiple covered vessels, and/or for multiple facilities, provided that the plan contents meet the requirements in this chapter for each covered vessel or facility.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-110, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) The plan holder shall submit two copies of the plan and all appendices. ((However, if the plan and appendices are submitted with an acceptable use of electronic copy, the plan holder shall submit at least one paper copy.)) Electronic submission of plans is encouraged, provided it is in an electronic format acceptable to ecology.
(4) The plans and all subsequent updates shall be delivered to:
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-120, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) For existing approved facility plan holders((:
(a) Plans holders for onshore facilities capable of storing one million gallons or more of oil shall submit a revised contingency plan to ecology six months after the effective date of this chapter; except, plan holders that received plan approval six months prior to the effective date of this chapter must submit a revised plan within twelve months of the effective date of this chapter. In submitting the revised plan, plan holders must include a compliance schedule describing how they will meet the requirements in WAC 173-182-310 through 173-182-440. Plan holders shall have eighteen months from the effective date of this chapter to reach compliance.
(b) All other onshore facilities shall submit revised plans to ecology within twelve months after the effective date of this chapter; except plan holders that received plan approval six months prior to the effective date of this chapter must submit a revised plan within eighteen months of the effective date of this chapter. In the revised plan, plan holders must include a compliance schedule describing how they will meet the requirements in WAC 173-182-310 through 173-182-440. Plan holders shall have twenty-four months from the effective date of this chapter to reach compliance.)) Within six months after the effective date of this chapter, all facility plan holders must update their plans to comply with the following sections as applicable to the facility:
(b) Contingency plan general content (WAC 173-182-230(7)), claims procedures.
(c) Contingency plan general content (WAC 173-182-260 (4)(c)(ii)), products handled.
(((a) Plan holders for tank vessels submit a revised contingency plan to ecology six months after the effective date of this chapter; except plan holders that received plan approval six months prior to the effective date of this chapter must submit a revised plan within twelve months of the effective date of this chapter. In the revised plan, plan holders must include a compliance schedule describing how they will meet the requirements in WAC 173-182-310 through 173-182-440. Plan holders shall have eighteen months from the effective date of this chapter to reach compliance.
(b) All other covered vessels shall submit revised plans to ecology within twelve months after the effective date of this chapter; except plan holders that received plan approval six months prior to the effective date of this chapter must submit a revised plan within eighteen months of the effective date of this chapter. In the revised plan, plan holders must include a compliance schedule describing how they will meet the requirements in WAC 173-182-310 through 173-182-440. Plan holders shall have twenty-four months from the effective date of this chapter to reach compliance.
(4) PRCs shall submit new applications to ecology within twelve months.)) (a) Within six months after the effective date of this chapter, all tank vessel plan holders and vessel umbrella plan holders must update their plans to comply with the following sections:
(ii) Contingency plan general content (WAC-173-182-230 (5)(f)).
(iii) Contingency plan general content (WAC-173-182-230 (6)(a)(1-7)).
(iv) Contingency plan general content (WAC 173-182-230(7)), claims procedures.
(v) Aerial surveillance planning standard (WAC 173-182-321(2)), Additional surveillance assets.
(vi) Planning standard for dispersants (WAC 173-182-325). (vii) Planning standard for Group 5 Oils (WAC 173-182-324).
(viii) To the extent to which plan holders rely on PRC applications to demonstrate compliance for plan holder, PRC applications must also be updated correspondingly.
(iii) Aerial surveillance planning standard (WAC 173-182-321(3)), Helicopter/fixed wing with forward looking infrared.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-130, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(((a))) (1) Update and distribute the amended page(s) of the plan to ecology for review and approval; or
(((b))) (2) If no plan changes are needed, send a letter to ecology confirming that the existing plan is still accurate.
(((2) If there is a temporary, significant change to response readiness, the plan holder shall notify ecology in writing within twenty-four hours and provide a schedule for the prompt return of the plan to full operational status. Changes which are considered significant include loss of equipment that affects the planning standards provided in the plan, or permanent loss of initial response personnel listed in command and general staff ICS positions provided in the plan or changes in normal operating procedures. A facsimile or electronic mail will be considered sufficient written notice.
(3) Failure to notify ecology of significant changes shall be considered noncompliance with this chapter.
(4) If the change to the plan is permanent, the plan holder then shall have thirty calendar days to distribute the amended page(s) of the plan to ecology for review.
(5) If ecology finds that, as a result of a change, the plan no longer meets approval criteria; ecology may place conditions on approval or revoke approval of the plan.))
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-140, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(i) For facilities changes in the oil types handled; changes in storage, capacity and tankage; changes in handling or processing of any product; and
(ii) For vessels changes in the oil types handled.
WAC 173-182-145 Plan implementation procedures. (1) Every plan holder, including each person whose vessel ((or facility)) enrolls in coverage under an umbrella plan, is required to implement the Washington approved plan ((throughout the)) in any response to a spill and drill. A decision to use a different plan must first be approved by the state and federal on-scene coordinators.
(2) Approval from ecology must be received before any significant aspect of the spill response is conducted in a manner contrary to the plan unless:
(a) Such actions are necessary to protect human health and safety; or
(c) State and federal on-scene coordinators have directed such actions.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-145, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(a) Verify acceptance of the plan and commit to a safe and immediate response to spills ((in Washington)) and to substantial threats of spills that occur in, or could impact Washington waters or Washington's natural, cultural and economic resources;
(c) Commit to the implementation and use of the plan during a spill and substantial threat of a spill, and to the training of personnel to implement the plan; ((and))
(d) Verify authority and capability of the plan holder to make necessary and appropriate expenditures in order to implement plan provisions; and
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-220, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(ii) For vessel umbrella plans((, a worst case volume for each port of operation may be submitted to ecology for consideration, if the operations of enrolled vessels differ by port)) that enroll both tank vessels and nontank covered vessels, specify the worst case discharge volume and product type for both tank and nontank covered vessels for each port covered by the contingency plan.
(iii) For multiple facilities using a single umbrella plan, separate worst case spill volumes are required for each facility.
(ii) Inventory all tanks and list ((by)) tank capacity all oil(s) or product(s) handled by name and include; density, gravity (API), group ((and amount the oil handled)).
(iii) Include a written description and map indicating site topography, storm water and other drainage systems, mooring areas, pipelines, tanks, and other oil processing, storage, and transfer sites and operations.
(iv) A description of the geographic area that could be impacted from a spill at the location based on a forty-eight hour worst case spill trajectory analysis.
(5) Additional vessel plan content:
(f) ((Type of oil(s) handled (group);
(g) Oil volume capacity by group;
(h))) List all oil(s) or product(s) by name and include; density, gravity (API), group and amount carried as cargo or fuel;
(g) Description of the operations covered by the plan.
Include a written description and diagram indicating cargo, fuel, and ballast tanks and piping, power plants, and other oil storage and transfer sites and operations.
(6) Special exemptions for vessel umbrella plans shall, at a minimum, include the following:
(a) In lieu of providing vessels names, call signs and country of registry, vessel umbrella plan holders shall maintain accurate enrollment or member lists with vessel specific information provided by covered vessels and shall ((make the information available to ecology upon request)) provide ecology twenty-four hour access to the enrolled vessels list via the internet in a format acceptable to ecology. The list shall be updated daily, or at a minimum every three days. The list must at a minimum include the following:
(iii) Worst case discharge type and quantity;
(vi) Agent;
(vii) PRC/supplemental resources provider; and
(viii) P&I club.
(b) Umbrella plans for vessels shall include a list of the types of vessels and the typical oil types by group and volumes. In addition, vessel diagrams indicating cargo, fuel, and ballast tanks and piping, power plants, and other oil storage and transfer sites and operations shall be available for inspection by ecology. The procedure for the plan holder to acquire vessel diagrams needs to be documented in the plan.
(7) Plans shall include concise procedures to establish a process to manage oil spill liability claims of damages to persons or property, public or private, for which a responsible party may be liable.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-230, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-232 Requirements for vessel umbrella plans maintaining additional agreements for supplemental resources. (1) Approved umbrella plans provide an efficient and cost-effective mechanism for enrolling vessel owner and operators in contingency plan coverage. Umbrella plans provide response resources to meet the requirements of this chapter. The umbrella plan may be approved for more than one worst case discharge, by port, in areas of operation covered by the plan. Any owner or operator of a covered vessel having a worst case discharge volume that exceeds resources under contract to the umbrella plan may still enroll only if, the vessel owner or operator maintains a contract with another primary response contractor that will provide supplemental response resources, and if those resources are sufficient to meet the requirements of this chapter. The vessel owner or operator must provide documentation that authorizes the umbrella plan holder to activate the supplemental response resources, sufficient to meet the worst case discharge of the covered vessel, during a drill, spill or substantial threat of a spill. Documentation must demonstrate the agreement and includes, but is not limited to, authorized representative and commitment letters from contractors, qualified individuals, insurance representatives, member signed enrollment agreements or other letters of intent.
(2) The plan must describe the process for activation of the supplemental resources and shall include the documentation described in subsection (1) of this section. The process for accessing supplemental equipment will be tested in drills.
Umbrella vessel plans shall include procedures to ensure each vessel covered by the plan is provided the field document prior to entering Washington waters. This can include by electronic means.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-240, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(a) Documentation of the vessel owner/operators contracted access to an emergency response towing vessel (ERTV) at Neah Bay;
(b) Detailed information about the ERTV's capabilities and circumstances of potential activation and call out;
(c) A commitment in the plan to participate in drills that test compliance with the requirements of RCW 88.46.135; and
(d) Procedures for call out of the ERTV must be included in the field document.
(2) Plan holders may request drill credit for an actual deployment of the tug to respond to a spill or vessel emergency, provided the plan holder follows the requirements in WAC 173-182-730.
(2) Each plan shall include a list of the names and phone numbers of required notifications to government agencies, response contractors and spill management team members, except that the portion of the list containing internal call down information need not be included in the plan, but shall be available for review by ecology upon request and verified during spills and drills.
(3) The procedure shall establish a clear order of priority for immediate notification.
(((4) In addition, facility plans shall also address how notifications will be made to required government agencies for spills to ground or into permeable secondary containment, and threatened or confirmed spills to groundwater.))
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-260, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) Vessel discharge notifications are in addition and made subsequent to notifications that the owner or operator of a covered vessel must provide to the United States Coast Guard. Vessels enrolled in umbrella plans must notify the umbrella plan holder in addition to the state.
(3) Notification of the discharge or substantial threat of a discharge initiates activation of the plan. Upon notification:
(a) The vessel owner/operator will coordinate as appropriate with the state of Washington and the United States Coast Guard to take any necessary actions to protect the public health, welfare, and natural resources of the state; and
(b) The umbrella plan holder for plan implementation as described in the plan.
WAC 173-182-264 Notification requirements for facility spills to ground or containment that threaten waters of the state. (1) Facility plans shall contain procedures for notifications for spills to ground and to permeable secondary containment that threaten to impact waters of the state. All spills are considered reportable spills except spills which are known to be less than forty-two gallons. A spill is considered to have not impacted ground if it occurs on a paved surface such as asphalt or concrete.
(2) Plan holders must also include procedures in their plan to address spills of an unknown volume. When addressing a spill of an unknown volume, plan holders may consider the following circumstances in determining when to make notifications:
(a) Whether the spill is ongoing; and
(b) Whether the spill is located in an area that is adjacent to waters of the state or where there is a pathway to waters of the state, and the environmental conditions, such as rain events, or known shallow groundwater make impacts to waters of the state likely.
(3) Covered vessel plan holders shall identify a primary and alternate incident commander's representative that can form unified command at the initial command post, and if located out-of-state, a primary and alternate incident commander that could arrive at the initial command post within six hours. The plan shall include estimated time frames for arrival of the remainder of the spill management team to the spill site, or at the incident command post as appropriate.
(5) Covered vessel umbrella plans must maintain a list of the spill management team(s) for each vessel enrolled under the plan, and must describe the transition process from umbrella plan personnel to the incoming vessel owner or operator's team. The plan must include checklists and documentation to facilitate an effective transition.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-280, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-315 Facility planning standards for nondedicated work boats and operators. Each facility plan holder shall plan to obtain nondedicated work boats and operators that will be available to deploy GRPs, enhance skimming, to provide platforms as vessel of opportunity skimming systems, logistical support or other uses during a spill. At a minimum, the plan shall describe a plan that will support the worst case spill response with work boats and operators that could have arrived on scene beginning at forty-eight hours.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-315, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) In order for a commercial vessel to be considered for the VOO program, the owner or operator will self-register through the on-line process developed by ecology, or through use of a form provided by ecology. VOO operators must renew their information annually, and will supply the following information as applicable to the vessel:
(s) Plan holder or PRC with which the vessel is contracted.
(3) In order for a recreational vessel to be considered for the VOO program the owner or operator will self-register through the on-line process developed by ecology, or through use of a form provided by ecology. VOO operators must renew their information annually, and will supply at a minimum the following information to the extent applicable to the vessel:
(h) Vessel owner training relevant to oil spill response;
(o) Plan holder or PRC with which the vessel is contracted.
(4) For planning purposes VOO will be organized by regions. The regions are designed to ensure adequate numbers of VOO for contracting. Covered vessel plan holders shall have contracted access to VOO in the regions they transit or operate. VOO from all regions may be cascaded into the spill area if the VOO capability is appropriate for the operating environment. The regional areas include:
(5) For each region a vessel plan holder transits or operates the plan holder must have a contract with the prescribed number of Tier I VOO below. VOO are nondedicated resources; the minimum number of VOO required assumes that one out of every two contracted vessels may be available at any time. In each region a percentage of the VOO must be pretrained and capable of the following tactics: On-water recovery, protection of sensitive areas, and logistical support with no more than fifty percent to be pretrained exclusively for logistical support.
(f) Region 6: Plan holders must have contracts with a minimum of twelve VOO at the Tier I level.
(ii) Pretrained through a combination of classroom training, computer based education, equipment familiarization, and field training exercises appropriate to the tactics the vessel may be assigned, including:
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-320, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-321 Covered vessel planning standards for aerial surveillance. Covered vessels shall document the following aerial surveillance capability through the plan:
(3) In order to provide best achievable technology for aerial oil surveillance, vessel plan holders must also provide for access to a helicopter or fixed wing asset, under contract or other approved means, with the capability to provide a strategic picture of the overall spill; assist in detection of slicks when they are not visible by persons operating at, or near, the water's surface or at night; extend the hours of clean-up operations to include darkness and poor visibility; identify oceanographic and geographic features toward which oil may migrate.
(a) The aerial asset must be appropriately located and could have arrived with trained aerial observers to those planning standard areas plan holders operate or transit within eight hours of spill notification.
(b) The aerial asset must be equipped with a suite of equipment that could support the capabilities described in this subsection. At least two remote sensing systems must be included in the suite and one of them must be a high definition infrared (IR) camera designed to support aerial operations from aerial platforms which at a minimum meets the following capabilities:
(i) IR camera with sensors capable in either or both of the following ranges 3 to 5 µm or 8 to 14 µm;
(ii) 640 x 480 focal pixel detector;
(iii) Continuous optical zoom of 18x;
(iv) Minimum thermal resolution .07; and
(v) Plan holders must submit for approval the systems included in the suite. Plan holders may submit testing data for suites of equipment with alternative capabilities.
(iv) Transmitting processed images and other information to the unified command primary command post in near real time; and
(vi) Integrating spill images and other information with appropriate spill management software.
(4) Plan holders must have access to enough personnel trained in aerial surveillance and as spotters to direct skimmers into the thickest oil to enhance on-water recovery and to support the activities described above. The names of individuals with this training, their home base and training levels must either be listed in the plan or made available to ecology upon request. At a minimum, personnel must be trained in aerial observation at the level set forth in federal regulations currently located at 33 C.F.R. 155.1050 (l)(2)(iii). A copy of this regulation is available through ecology upon request.
WAC 173-182-324 Planning standards for Group 5 Oils. (1) Plan holders carrying Group 5 Oils must have a contract with a PRC that maintains the resources and/or capabilities necessary to respond to a spill of Group 5 Oils. Such equipment shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
(b) Containment boom, sorbent boom, silt curtains, or other methods for containing the petroleum oil that may remain floating on the surface or to reduce spreading on the bottom;
(c) Dredges, pumps, or other equipment necessary to recover petroleum oil from the bottom and shoreline;
(e) Other appropriate equipment necessary to respond to a discharge involving the type of petroleum oil handled, stored, or transported.
(2) The equipment must be suitable for the geographic area authorized for operations and these resources must be capable of being on scene within twelve hours of spill notification.
(5) These resources must be capable of being on scene within twelve hours of spill ((awareness)) notification.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-325, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) The plan holder must identify the locations of two fire booms, air monitoring equipment, igniters and aircraft or vessels to be used to deploy the igniters.
(3) The fire booms must be five hundred feet in length each and have an additional one thousand feet of conventional boom, tow bridles and work boats capable of towing the boom for burning operations.
(4) The plan holder must describe the methods of transporting the equipment to a staging area, and appropriate aircraft or vessels to monitor its effectiveness at the scene of an oil discharge.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-330, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-335 Planning standards for storage. Plan holders shall identify both on-water devices and shoreside interim storage locations. For marine waters, shoreside storage can be identified to meet fifty percent of storage requirements in the tables below, if the plan holders can demonstrate that recovered oil can be transported to the shoreside storage. For freshwater environments, shoreside storage can be identified to meet sixty-five percent of the storage requirements in the tables below, if the plan holders can demonstrate that recovered oil can be transported to the shoreside storage. For covered vessels at least twenty-five percent of the total worst case discharge on-water storage requirement must be staged and dedicated to oil spill response.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-335, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-349 Covered vessel plan holders technical manuals. (1) Each covered vessel plan holder that operates or transits in the Neah Bay, Cathlamet, or San Juan Islands planning standard areas must provide a technical manual that includes all of the equipment appropriate for the operating environment that is necessary to meet the recovery and storage requirements, through the forty-eight hour time frames.
(2) The technical manuals will be used to inform the five year BAP cycle and support ecology's determination that the response systems, training levels, and staffing demonstrate best available protection.
(3) Plan holders must use a systems approach to identify the equipment, including WRRL identification or other unique identification numbers, that will be used to describe the response systems in the technical manual. For each recovery system described include the following:
(a) An operational picture or diagram of the recovery system, the EDRC for the system, and associated temporary storage;
(b) The infrastructure and support resources necessary for deployment;
(c) Associated vessels necessary to enhance the skimmer;
(d) At least three hundred feet of boom to enhance the skimmer or an alternative based on manufacturers recommendations;
(e) The mobilization time and home base for the equipment;
(f) The ownership or mechanism for accessing the equipment for example, under contract, subcontract or letter of intent to the plan holder or other approved means;
(g) If applicable, the ability of the recovery system to be used to support night operations;
(h) The minimum number of personnel necessary to deploy the equipment for a twelve hour shift and the training level of personnel appropriate to operate the equipment and carry out recovery;
(i) If alternative speeds are given for equipment associated with a recovery system the information should be included in the equipment description; and
(j) The product type(s) the associated skimmer is optimized for.
(5) For the storage requirement include the following:
(a) An operational picture or diagram and capacity of the storage system;
(c) The mobilization time and home base for the equipment;
(d) The ownership or mechanism for accessing the equipment for example under contract, subcontract or letter of intent to the planholder or other approved means;
(e) The minimum number of personnel necessary to deploy the equipment for a twelve hour shift and the training level of personnel appropriate to operate the equipment;
(f) If applicable the ability of the storage system to be used to support night operations;
(g) If alternative speeds are given for equipment associated with the storage device the information should be included in the equipment description.
(6) The technical manual is a standalone planning standard and is not intended to be used to demonstrate compliance with any other planning standards. Technical manuals are not intended to bind the use of any specific tactics during a drill or spill or to imply a guarantee of what will occur in a real spill event.
(1) Each plan shall provide a spreadsheet on the resources intended to meet the planning standards as described in this chapter. This spreadsheet shall account for boom, recovery systems, storage, and personnel by type, quantity, home base and provider.
(4) Equipment travel speeds shall be computed using a speed of thirty-five miles per hour for land and five knots for water. Ecology ((will)) may use geographic information systems (GIS), standard nautical charts ((and)), street maps and available on-line mapping programs to determine the length of time it will take equipment to cover a given distance.
(5) Plan holders may request approval for alternative notification, mobilization, and travel time by providing documentation to justify the request, such as actual performance during spills or unannounced drills.
(a) The request shall include date and time of performance or test, weather/sea state conditions and transportation information.
(b) If ecology accepts these alternative response times, then these response times will be tested in unannounced drills or spills to verify alternative calculations.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-350, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
4 At least an additional 200 feet of boom and temporary storage of at least 196 bbls with the ability to collect, contain, and separate collected oil from water could have arrived. The additional boom should be capable of encountering oil at advancing speeds of at least 2 knots in waves. This boom shall be of a type appropriate for the operating environment
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-370, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-375, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-380 Commencement Bay(( -- ))Quartermaster Harbor planning standard. Those covered vessel and facility plan holders that transit or operate within a five nautical mile radius of a point at Lat. 47°19'29"N Long. 122°27'23"W (WGS 1984) must meet the following standards.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-380, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-395 Neah Bay staging area. Those covered vessel and facility plan holders that transit or operate within a five nautical mile radius of a point at Lat. 48°23'06"N Long. 124°35'59"W (WGS 1984) must meet the following standards. This area is very rugged, in order to accomplish deployment of resources logistical considerations will need to be planned for. Access to GRP locations may need to be done by helicopter or by land access, plans must identify all of the equipment that could be used to deploy GRPs. The boom and recovery resources to meet the two, three and six hour standards must be resident.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-395, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-405 Grays Harbor planning standard. Those covered vessel and facility plan holders that transit or operate within Washington waters in a five nautical mile radius of a point at Lat. 46°54'52.25"N Long. 124°10'26.45"W (WGS 1984) outside the entrance to Grays Harbor must meet these standards.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-405, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-410 Willapa planning standard. Those covered vessel and facility plan holders that transit or operate within Washington waters in a five nautical mile radius of a point at Lat. ((46°44'00"N Long. 124°11'00"W)) 46°41'31.2"N Long. 124°5'41.99"W (WGS 1984) outside the entrance to Willapa Bay must meet these standards.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-410, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-415, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
Plan holders shall be capable of sustaining a worst case spill response and shall develop an addendum specific to Washington's coast, including:
(1) The capability, if applicable, for in situ burning, dispersant, and mechanical recovery;
(2) Surveillance equipment (including fixed wing, helicopters and low visibility equipment) to provide for aerial assessment of spill within six hours of spill ((awareness)) notification;
(3) Time frames and mechanisms to cascade in equipment and other resources for up to seventy-two hours;
(4) Ten thousand feet of boom appropriate for shoreline protection, containment and/or ten thousand feet of open water boom for enhanced skimming, containment or other use to arrive within twelve hours; and
(5) Twenty thousand feet of boom appropriate for containment, protection or recovery to arrive within twenty-four hours.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-450, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-520, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(a) Plan holders must have contracted access to one hundred trained shoreline clean-up workers. The shoreline clean-up workers must have appropriate safety and Hazwoper training and will not be counted towards other planning standards. The training should ensure clean-up workers can safely perform clean-up actions under the direction of the supervisors and the work assignment as developed by the unified command.
(d) The plan holder must have access to a shoreline clean-up trailer that can plan to support eighty to one hundred shoreline clean-up workers with personal protective equipment, hand tools, and other logistical support for three to five days.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-540, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-620, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(2) Ecology will adopt a five-year review cycle to ensure that the planning standards are updated to include proven new response technologies and response processes. In addition plan holders and other interested parties will be provided an opportunity to present information and proposals regarding spill prevention credits to support an alternative worst case discharge volume for the contingency plan. The review cycle is designed to evaluate BAP by assessing contributing elements including:
(a) Best achievable technology;
(b) Staffing levels;
(c) Training procedures; and
(d) Operational methods.
(3) The review cycle will be used to evaluate a variety of spill operations, tools, and technologies including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Advancing systems for the removal of oil from the surface of the water;
(b) Improving the performance of existing skimmer/boom and storage systems technology;
(c) Improving the performance of in situ burn and dispersants technology;
(d) Broadening the environmental conditions under which oil spill cleanup can take place;
(e) Ensuring that the technology is deployable and effective in a real world spill environment; and
(f) Considering tools or technology that are designed, produced, and manufactured in an energy-efficient process and products are reuseable, recyclable, and reduce waste.
(4) Ecology may use the following processes to inform and update the use of BAP in the planning standards by:
(a) Convening an advisory committee(s) to assist ecology during the five-year review cycle and promote BAP.
(b) Evaluating the recovery systems identified in the technical manual during the five-year cycle to determine best achievable technology, and inform the development of future planning standards.
(c) Sponsoring a technology conference during the five-year cycle in cooperation with persons, organizations, and groups with interests and expertise in relevant technologies; or
(d) Conducting, reviewing or requiring studies, inquiries, surveys, or analyses appropriate to the consideration of new technologies, plan evaluation methods including EDRC, or best operational practices.
(5) Ecology may prepare reports following either of the actions described in subsection (4) of this section. These reports will identify the new technologies, processes, techniques or operational practices that ecology considers to represent BAP.
(6) Ecology will provide an opportunity for a thirty-day public review and comment period on the draft report.
(7) Ecology will use the developed reports to update the contingency planning rule as necessary every five years.
(2) Once a plan ((is)) has been determined to be complete, ecology shall notify interested parties, including local and tribal governments and make the plan((s)) available for public review((. Comments will be accepted during the first thirty calendar days of the review period.
(3))) and comment.
(a) If the plan is approved, the plan holder receives a certificate ((describing the terms)) of plan approval((, including)) and plan expiration dates. Approved plans shall be valid for five years.
(((a))) (b) If a plan is conditionally approved, ecology may ((approve a plan conditionally and)) require a plan holder to operate under specific restrictions until unacceptable components of the plan are revised, resubmitted and approved. ((Such notice will include specific reference)) In the conditional approval ecology will describe:
(((i) Precautionary measures)) (iv) Restrictions may include, but are not limited to, additional information for the plan, reducing oil transfer rates, increasing personnel levels, or restricting operations to daylight hours. ((Precautionary measures)) Restrictions may also include additional requirements to ensure availability of response equipment.
(((ii))) (v) Conditional approval expires no later than eighteen months from date of issue before the plan holder must request an extension which is subject to public review.
(vi) Ecology shall revoke its conditional approval prior to the expiration date of a plan holder((s)) who fails to meet the terms of the conditional ((requirements or provide required changes in the time allowed will forfeit conditional approval status)) approval. The revocation will be in the form of an appealable order.
(((b))) (c) If plan approval is ((denied)) disapproved, the plan holder shall receive an explanation of the factors ((for denial and a list of actions necessary to gain approval)).
(3) The owner or operator or plan holder shall not engage in oil storage, transport, transfer, or other operations without an approved or conditionally approved plan. Umbrella plan holders shall not enroll any vessels in a plan that has not been approved or conditionally approved, by ecology.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-630, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
WAC 173-182-640 Process for public notice and opportunity for public review and comment period. (1) The purpose of this section is to specify the procedures for notifying the public which includes interested local and tribal governments about contingency plan status and decisions in order to provide opportunities for the public to review and comment. If plan holders submit only paper copies of their contingency plan, the paper copies may be scanned to ensure public review can occur via a secure on-line web portal. Interested public, local, and tribal governments can also schedule time at the ecology offices to review the plan.
(2) In order to receive notification of the public review and comment period, interested public, local, and tribal governments must sign up on a listserv. Ecology's web site will also be used to post notice of public review and comment periods.
(e) Plan holder requests for drill requirement waivers in accordance with WAC 173-182-740; and
(f) PRC applications submitted under WAC 173-182-810.
(2) Plan holders and PRCs shall ensure ecology ((shall be)) is provided an opportunity to help design and evaluate all tabletop and deployment drills for which the plan holder desires drill credit. To ensure this, plan holders shall schedule drills on the NWACP area exercise calendar. Scheduling requirements are noted in the table below.
(5) Where plan deficiencies have been identified in the written evaluation ((may require)), plan holders may be required to make specific amendments to the plan or conduct additional trainings to address the deficiencies.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-700, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(1) Tabletop drills:
(a) Tabletop drills are intended to demonstrate a plan holder's capability to manage a spill using the incident command system (ICS). Role playing shall be required in this drill. During all required tabletop drills plan holders must provide a master list of equipment and personnel identified to fill both command post and field operations roles. The master resources list must include:
(b) Western regional response list identification numbers for all response actions, including shoreline cleanup and other response tactics; and
(c) Personnel names, affiliation, home base and command post or field role.
(2) Once during each three year cycle, the plan holder shall ensure that key members of the regional/national "away" team as identified in the plan shall be mobilized in state for a drill((, except that:)). However, at ecology's discretion, ((away)) team members that are out-of-state may be evaluated in out-of-state tabletop drills if ecology has sufficient notice, an opportunity to participate in the drill planning process, and provided that the out-of-state drills are of similar scope and scale to what would have occurred in state. In this case, key away team members shall be mobilized in this state at least once every ((five)) six years.
(((2))) (3) Umbrella plan holders and ecology shall together design a systematic approach to, over time, involve all spill management teams identified in WAC 173-182-230 (6)(a) in tabletop and deployment drills as a best practice to demonstrate the preparedness of enrolled vessel members. These drills will be scheduled by the plan holder or unannounced to be conducted by ecology, at the discretion of ecology. These drills may test any plan components but at a minimum will include notification to the enrolled vessel qualified individual, coordination of supplemental resources under WAC 173-182-232 and the transition from the umbrella plan spill management team to the enrolled vessel company spill management team.
(a) During the triennial cycle, deployment drills shall include a combination of plan holder owned ((and)) assets, contracted PRC assets, nondedicated assets, and vessels of opportunity.
(((3))) (5) Plan holders may receive credit for ((GRP)) deployment drills conducted by PRCs if:
(((4))) (6) Additional large-scale multiple tank vessel plan holder equipment deployment drill requirement. Once every three years all tank vessel plan holders, including vessel umbrella plan holders that enroll tank vessels, must participate in a multiple plan holder deployment exercise. At least one plan holder shall be the drill planning lead, participate in all the planning meetings and observe the drill. This deployment may include the following objectives:
(9) For all plan holders, ecology ((initiated)) may initiate scheduled inspections and unannounced deployment and tabletop drills.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-710, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(3) Ability to operate within the response management system described in the plan. This includes demonstration of the ICS staffing and process identified in the plan.
(5) Assessment: Demonstrate the ability of the spill response organization to provide an initial assessment of the discharge and provide continuing assessments of the effectiveness of the tactical operations.
(7) Recovery: Demonstrate the ability of the spill response organization to recover, mitigate, and remove the discharged product. Includes mitigation and removal activities, e.g., dispersant use, in situ burn use, and bioremediation use.
(8) Protection: Demonstrate the ability of the spill response organization to protect the environmentally and economically sensitive areas identified in the NWACP and the plan.
(11) Transportation: Demonstrate the ability to provide effective multimode. Transportation both for execution of the discharge and support functions.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-720, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(4) Ecology will evaluate the request and respond in writing within sixty calendar days of receipt of the letter.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-740, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(a) Submit an application as set forth in subsection (2) of this section;
(b) Have a process to provide twenty-four hour/day contact for spill response;
(c) Commit to begin mobilization efforts immediately upon notification but no later than one hour from notification of a spill;
(d) Maintain equipment in accordance with manufacturer specifications; ((and))
(e) Identify and train staff and supervisors expected to be deployed on oil spill response tactics or used to meet the planning standards;
(f) Assist plan holders in meeting the requirements for plans and drills in Washington; and
(g) List response equipment on the western regional response list currently located at www.wrrl.us, or provide an equivalent electronic equipment list and commit to maintaining the equipment list in whatever format is provided.
(2) To apply, a contractor should complete, sign and submit the application form number ECY 070-216.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-800, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(c) The training program must include at a minimum:
(iv) Determination that equipment is appropriate for the conditions;
(3) A list of response equipment must be submitted electronically to ecology or via western response resource list, at www.wrrl.us, containing the following information:
(6) A detailed description of any wildlife rescue and rehabilitation resources. Include a list of contracts or agreements with any trained wildlife rescue and rehabilitation personnel.
(((2))) (12) Equipment and personnel readiness will be verified once the application is approved. Ecology may inspect equipment, training records, maintenance records, drill records, and may request a test of the call-out procedures, and require operation of each type of equipment listed in the application. These inspections may be conducted at any/all equipment locations. Any resources not on-site at the time of an inspection shall be accounted for by company records.
(((3))) (13) If the application is approved and the verification is satisfactory, the contractor shall receive a letter of approval describing the terms of approval, including expiration dates and EDRC of the recovery equipment. PRC approvals will be reviewed by ecology every three years. Applications shall be resubmitted forty-five calendar days in advance of the expiration date.
(((4))) (14) Once the PRC application is approved, the PRC must certify in writing on a quarterly basis that the list of equipment the contractor maintains in their application or on the WRRL is accurate. Any contractor that doesn't maintain their list on the WRRL, must resubmit their electronic list on a quarterly basis.
(15) Notification by facsimile or e-mail will be considered written notice.
(((5))) (18) Approval of a response contractor by ecology does not constitute an express assurance regarding the adequacy of the contractor nor constitute a defense to liability imposed under state law.
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-810, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]
(a) Loss of equipment that ((affect the planning standard spreadsheet of any plan holder covered by the PRC, personnel identified in ICS positions by plan holders, changes in equipment ownership, or a greater than ten percent decrease in available spill response equipment. Failure to report changes could result in the loss of PRC approval. Notification by facsimile or e-mail will be considered written notice.
(2))) results in being out of compliance with any planning standard of any plan holder covered by the PRC;
(c) If greater than ten percent of available boom, storage, recovery, dispersants, in situ burn or shoreline clean-up equipment is moved out of the homebase as depicted on the WRRL;
(d) Loss of primary response contractor personnel identified to fill ICS positions for plan holders;
(5) If ecology determines that PRC approval conditions are no longer met, approval may be revoked ((or conditionally modified)). The PRC will receive a written notice of the loss of approval ((or conditional modifications)) and a time period to either appeal or correct the deficiency.
(((3))) (6) Ecology will immediately notify plan holders of changes in the approval status of PRCs .
[Statutory Authority: Chapters 88.46, 90.56, and 90.48 RCW. 06-20-035 (Order 00-03), § 173-182-820, filed 9/25/06, effective 10/26/06.]