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WA Rev Code § 88.46.170 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.170 - Field operations program—Coordination with United States coast guard.

RCW 88.46.170 Field operations program—Coordination with United States coast guard.(1) The department shall establish a field operations program to enforce the provisions of this chapter. The field operations program shall include, but is not limited to, the following elements:(a) Education and public outreach;(b) Review of lightering and bunkering operations to prevent oil spills;(c) Evaluation and boarding of tank vessels for compliance with prevention plans prepared pursuant to this chapter;(d) Evaluation and boarding of covered vessels that may pose a substantial risk to the public health, safety, and the environment;(e) Evaluation and boarding of covered vessels for compliance with rules adopted by the department to implement recommendations of regional marine safety committees; and(f) Collection of vessel information to assist in identifying vessels which pose a substantial risk to the public health, safety, and the environment.(2) The department shall coordinate the field operations program with similar activities of the United States coast guard. To the extent feasible, the department shall coordinate its boarding schedules with those of the United States coast guard to reduce the impact of boardings on vessel operators, to more efficiently use state and federal resources, and to avoid duplication of United States coast guard inspection operations.(3) In developing and implementing the field operations program, the department shall give priority to activities designed to identify those vessels which pose the greatest risk to the waters of the state. The department shall consult with the marine transportation industry, individuals concerned with the marine environment, other state and federal agencies, and the public in developing and implementing the program required by this section.[ 2000 c 69 § 13; 1993 c 162 § 1.]NOTES:Severability—1993 c 162: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1993 c 162 § 4.]Effective date—1993 c 162: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1993." [ 1993 c 162 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 88.46.180 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.180 - Planning standards for equipment—Updates.

RCW 88.46.180 Planning standards for equipment—Updates.(1) The department shall evaluate and update planning standards for oil spill response equipment required under contingency plans required by this chapter, including aerial surveillance, in order to ensure access in the state to equipment that represents the best achievable protection to respond to a worst case spill and provide for continuous operation of oil spill response activities to the maximum extent practicable and without jeopardizing crew safety, as determined by the incident commander or the unified command.(2) The department shall by rule update the planning standards at five-year intervals to ensure the maintenance of best available protection over time. Rule updates to covered nontank vessels shall minimize potential impacts to discretionary cargo moved through the state.[ 2015 c 274 § 23; 2011 c 122 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—2015 c 274: See note following RCW 90.56.005.
WA Rev Code § 88.46.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.190 - Rule making for vessels of opportunity response system.

RCW 88.46.190 Rule making for vessels of opportunity response system.By December 31, 2012, the department shall complete rule making for purposes of improving the effectiveness of the vessels of opportunity [response] system to participate in spill response.[ 2011 c 122 § 3.]NOTES:
WA Rev Code § 88.46.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.200 - Advisory marine safety committees—Recommendations.

RCW 88.46.200 Advisory marine safety committees—Recommendations.The director may appoint ad hoc, advisory marine safety committees to solicit recommendations and technical advice concerning vessel traffic safety. The department may implement recommendations made in regional marine safety plans that are approved by the department and over which the department has authority. If federal authority or action is required to implement the recommendations, the department may petition the appropriate agency or the congress.[ 2000 c 69 § 14; 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 854.]NOTES:Severability—Headings and captions not law—Effective date—1994 sp.s. c 9: See RCW 18.79.900 through 18.79.902.
WA Rev Code § 88.46.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.210 - Volunteer coordination system.

RCW 88.46.210 Volunteer coordination system.(1) The department shall establish a volunteer coordination system. The volunteer coordination system may be included as a part of the state's overall oil spill response strategy, and may be implemented by local emergency management organizations, in coordination with any analogous federal efforts, to supplement the state's timely and effective response to spills.(2) The department should consider how the volunteer coordination system will:(a) Coordinate with the incident commander or unified command of an oil spill and any affected local governments to receive, screen, and register volunteers who are not affiliated with the emergency management organization or a local nongovernmental organization;(b) Coordinate the management of volunteers with local nongovernmental organizations and their affiliated volunteers;(c) Coordinate appropriate response operations with different classes of volunteers, including pretrained volunteers and convergent volunteers, to fulfill requests by the department or an oil spill incident commander or unified command;(d) Coordinate public outreach regarding the need for and use of volunteers;(e) Determine minimum participation criteria for volunteers; and(f) Identify volunteer training requirements and, if applicable, provide training opportunities for volunteers prior to an oil spill response incident.(3) An act or omission by any volunteer participating in a spill response or training as part of a volunteer coordination system, while engaged in such activities, does not impose any liability on any state agency, any participating local emergency management organization, or the volunteer for civil damages resulting from the act or omission. However, the immunity provided under this subsection does not apply to an act or omission that constitutes gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct.(4) The decisions to utilize volunteers in an oil spill response, which volunteers to utilize, and to determine which response activities are appropriate for volunteer participation in any given response are the sole responsibilities of the designated incident commander or unified command.[ 2011 c 122 § 4.]NOTES:
WA Rev Code § 88.46.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.220 - Equipment deployment drills of covered vessels.

RCW 88.46.220 Equipment deployment drills of covered vessels.(1) The department is responsible for requiring joint large-scale, multiple plan equipment deployment drills of covered vessels to determine the adequacy of the owner's or operator's compliance with the contingency plan requirements of this chapter. The department must order at least one drill as outlined in this section every three years, which must address situations where oils, depending on their qualities, weathering, environmental factors, and method of discharge, may submerge or sink in water.(2) Drills required under this section must focus on, at a minimum, the following:(a) The functional ability for multiple contingency plans to be simultaneously activated with the purpose of testing the ability for dedicated equipment and trained personnel cited in multiple contingency plans to be activated in a large scale spill; and(b) The operational readiness during both the first six hours of a spill and, at the department's discretion, over multiple operational periods of response.(3) Drills required under this section may be incorporated into other drill requirements under this chapter to avoid increasing the number of drills and equipment deployments otherwise required.(4) Each successful drill conducted under this section may be considered by the department as a drill of the underlying contingency plan and credit may be awarded to the plan holder accordingly.(5) The department shall, when practicable, coordinate with applicable federal agencies, the state of Oregon, and the province of British Columbia to establish a drill incident command and to help ensure that lessons learned from the drills are evaluated with the goal of improving the underlying contingency plans.[ 2018 c 262 § 203; 2011 c 122 § 5.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—Report—2018 c 262: See notes following RCW 82.23B.010.
WA Rev Code § 88.46.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.230 - Umbrella plan holders.

RCW 88.46.230 Umbrella plan holders.(1) When submitting a contingency plan to the department under RCW 88.46.060, any umbrella plan holder that enrolls both tank vessels and covered vessels that are not tank vessels must, in addition to satisfying the other requirements of this chapter, specify:(a) The maximum worst case discharge volume from covered vessels that are not tank vessels to be covered by the umbrella plan holder's contingency plan; and(b) The maximum worst case discharge volume from tank vessels to be covered by the umbrella plan holder's contingency plan.(2) Any owner or operator of a covered vessel having a worst case discharge volume that exceeds the maximum volume covered by an approved umbrella plan holder may enroll with the umbrella plan holder if the owner or operator of the covered vessel maintains an agreement with another entity to provide supplemental equipment sufficient to meet the requirements of this chapter.(3) The department must approve an umbrella plan holder that covers vessels having a worst case discharge volume that exceeds the maximum volume if:(a) The department determines that the umbrella plan holder should be approved for a lower discharge volume;(b) The vessel owner or operator provides documentation to the umbrella plan holder authorizing the umbrella plan holder to activate additional resources sufficient to meet the worst case discharge volume of the vessel; and(c) The department has previously approved a plan that provides access to the same resources identified in (3)(b) [(b) of this subsection] to meet the requirements of this chapter for worst case discharge volumes equal to or greater than the worst case discharge volume of the vessel.(4) The umbrella plan holder must describe in the plan how the activation of additional resources will be implemented and provide the department the ability to review and inspect any documentation that the umbrella plan holder relies on to enroll a vessel with a worst case discharge that exceeds the plan's maximum volume.[ 2011 c 122 § 7.]NOTES:
WA Rev Code § 88.46.250 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.250 - Model—Assessment of oil spill risks, emergency response towing vessel—Report.

RCW 88.46.250 Model—Assessment of oil spill risks, emergency response towing vessel—Report.(1) The department must develop and maintain a model to quantitatively assess current and potential future risks of oil spills from covered vessels in Washington waters, as it conducts ongoing oil spill risk assessments. The department must consult with the United States coast guard, potentially affected federally recognized Indian treaty fishing tribes, other federally recognized treaty tribes with potentially affected interests, and stakeholders to: Determine model assumptions; develop scenarios to show the likely impacts of changes to model assumptions, including potential changes in vessel traffic, commodities transported, and vessel safety and risk reduction measures; and update the model periodically.(2) Utilizing the model pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the department must quantitatively assess whether an emergency response towing vessel serving Haro Strait, Boundary Pass, Rosario Strait, and connected navigable waterways will reduce oil spill risk. The department must report its findings to the legislature by September 1, 2023.[ 2019 c 289 § 4.]NOTES:Finding—Intent—2019 c 289: See note following RCW 88.16.190.
WA Rev Code § 88.46.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.260 - Vessel traffic patterns, oil spill risks—Effects of rules—Board of pilotage commissioners and department to consider—Notice.

RCW 88.46.260 Vessel traffic patterns, oil spill risks—Effects of rules—Board of pilotage commissioners and department to consider—Notice.(1) By October 1, 2028, and no less often than every ten years thereafter, the board of pilotage commissioners and the department must together consider:(a) The effects of rules established under RCW 88.16.190 and 88.16.260 on vessel traffic patterns and oil spill risks in the Salish Sea. Factors considered must include modeling developed by the department under RCW 88.46.250 and may include: (i) Vessel traffic data; (ii) vessel accident and incident data, such as incidents where tug escorts or an emergency response towing vessel acted to reduce spill risks; and (iii) consultation with the United States coast guard, potentially affected federally recognized Indian treaty fishing tribes, other federally recognized treaty tribes with potentially affected interests, and stakeholders; and(b) Whether experienced or forecasted changes to vessel traffic patterns or oil spill risk in the Salish Sea necessitate an update to the tug escort rules adopted under RCW 88.16.260.(2) In the event that the board of pilotage commissioners determines that updates are merited to the rules, the board must notify the appropriate standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate, and must thereafter adopt rules consistent with the requirements of RCW 88.16.260, including the consultation process outlined in RCW 88.16.260(6).[ 2019 c 289 § 5.]NOTES:Finding—Intent—2019 c 289: See note following RCW 88.16.190.
WA Rev Code § 88.46.901 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.901 - Effective dates—1991 c 200.

RCW 88.46.901 Effective dates—1991 c 200.See RCW 90.56.901.
WA Rev Code § 88.46.921 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.921 - Office of marine safety abolished.

RCW 88.46.921 Office of marine safety abolished.The office of marine safety is hereby abolished and its powers, duties, and functions are hereby transferred to the department of ecology. All references to the administrator or office of marine safety in the Revised Code of Washington shall be construed to mean the director or department of ecology.[ 1991 c 200 § 430.]NOTES:Expiration date—1995 2nd sp.s. c 14 §§ 511-523 and 528-533: See note following RCW 43.19.1919.Effective dates—1995 2nd sp.s. c 14: See note following RCW 43.19.1919.Effective date—1991 c 200 §§ 430-436: "Sections 430 through 436 of this act shall take effect July 1, 1997." [(1995 2nd sp.s. c 14 § 521 expired June 30, 1997); 1991 c 200 § 1120.]
WA Rev Code § 88.46.926 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 88 - Navigation and Harbor Improvements|Chapter 88.46 - Vessel Oil Spill Prevention and Response.|88.46.926 - Apportionments of budgeted funds.

RCW 88.46.926 Apportionments of budgeted funds.If apportionments of budgeted funds are required because of the transfers directed by *RCW 88.46.922 through 88.46.925, the director of financial management shall certify the apportionments to the agencies affected, the state auditor, and the state treasurer. Each of these shall make the appropriate transfer and adjustments in funds and appropriation accounts and equipment records in accordance with the certification.[ 1991 c 200 § 435.]NOTES:*Reviser's note: (1) RCW 88.46.922 was repealed by 2000 c 69 § 37.(2) RCW 88.46.924 and 88.46.925 were decodified by 2000 c 69 § 36.Effective date—1991 c 200 §§ 430-436: See note following RCW 88.46.921.
WA Rev Code § 89.08.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts.|89.08.005 - Short title.

RCW 89.08.005 Short title.This chapter shall be known and cited as the conservation districts law.[ 1973 1st ex.s. c 184 § 1; 1961 c 240 § 1; 1939 c 187 § 1; RRS § 10726-1.]
WA Rev Code § 89.08.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts.|89.08.030 - Conservation commission.

RCW 89.08.030 Conservation commission.There is hereby established to serve as an agency of the state and to perform the functions conferred upon it by law, the state conservation commission, which shall succeed to all powers, duties and property of the state soil and water conservation committee.The commission shall consist of ten members, five of whom are ex officio. Two members shall be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be a landowner or operator of a farm. At least two of the three elected members shall be landowners or operators of a farm and shall be elected as herein provided. The appointed members shall serve for a term of four years.The three elected members shall be elected for three-year terms, one shall be elected each year by the district supervisors at their annual statewide meeting. One of the members shall reside in eastern Washington, one in central Washington and one in western Washington, the specific boundaries to be determined by district supervisors. At the first such election, the term of the member from western Washington shall be one year, central Washington two years and eastern Washington three years, and successors shall be elected for three years.Unexpired term vacancies in the office of appointed commission members shall be filled by appointment by the governor in the same manner as full-term appointments. Unexpired terms of elected commission members shall be filled by the regional vice president of the Washington association of conservation districts who is serving that part of the state where the vacancy occurs, such term to continue only until district supervisors can fill the unexpired term by electing the commission member.The director of the department of ecology, the director of the department of agriculture, the commissioner of public lands, the president of the Washington association of conservation districts, and the dean of the college of agriculture at Washington State University shall be ex officio members of the commission. An ex officio member of the commission shall hold office so long as he or she retains the office by virtue of which he or she is a member of the commission. Ex officio members may delegate their authority.The commission may invite appropriate officers of cooperating organizations, state and federal agencies to serve as advisers to the conservation commission.[ 1987 c 180 § 1; 1983 c 248 § 13; 1973 1st ex.s. c 184 § 4; 1967 c 217 § 1; 1961 c 240 § 3; 1955 c 304 § 3. Prior: 1951 c 216 § 3; 1949 c 106 § 1, part; 1939 c 187 § 4, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 10726-4, part.]
WA Rev Code § 89.08.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts.|89.08.040 - Members—Compensation and travel expenses—Records, rules, hearings, etc.

RCW 89.08.040 Members—Compensation and travel expenses—Records, rules, hearings, etc.Members shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.250 and shall be entitled to travel expenses in accordance with RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060 incurred in the discharge of their duties.The commission shall keep a record of its official actions, shall adopt a seal, which shall be judicially noticed, and may perform such acts, hold such public hearings, and adopt such rules as may be necessary for the execution of its functions under chapter 184, Laws of 1973 1st ex. sess. The state department of ecology is empowered to pay the travel expenses of the elected and appointed members of the state conservation commission, and the salaries, wages and other expenses of such administrative officers or other employees as may be required under the provisions of this chapter.[ 2009 c 55 § 1; 1984 c 287 § 112; 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 34 § 179; 1973 1st ex.s. c 184 § 5; 1961 c 240 § 4; 1955 c 304 § 4. Prior: 1951 c 216 § 4; 1949 c 106 § 1, part; 1939 c 187 § 4, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 10726-4, part.]NOTES:Legislative findings—Severability—Effective date—1984 c 287: See notes following RCW 43.03.220.Effective date—Severability—1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 34: See notes following RCW 2.08.115.
WA Rev Code § 89.08.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 89 - Reclamation, Soil Conservation, and Land Settlement|Chapter 89.08 - Conservation Districts.|89.08.050 - Employees—Delegation—Quorum.

RCW 89.08.050 Employees—Delegation—Quorum.The commission may employ an administrative officer, and such technical experts and such other agents and employees, permanent and temporary as it may require, and shall determine their qualifications, duties, and compensation. The commission may call upon the attorney general for such legal services as it may require.It shall have authority to delegate to its chair, to one or more of its members, to one or more agents or employees such duties and powers as it deems proper. As long as the commission and the office of financial management under the provisions of chapter 43.82 RCW deems it appropriate and financially justifiable to do so, the commission shall be supplied with suitable office accommodations at the central office of the department of ecology, and shall be furnished the necessary supplies and equipment.The commission shall organize annually and select a chair from among its members, who shall serve for one year from the date of the chair's selection. A majority of the commission shall constitute a quorum and all actions of the commission shall be by a majority vote of the members present and voting at a meeting at which a quorum is present.[ 2009 c 55 § 2; 1973 1st ex.s. c 184 § 6; 1961 c 240 § 5; 1955 c 304 § 5. Prior: 1949 c 106 § 1, part; 1939 c 187 § 4, part; Rem. Supp. 1949 § 10726-4, part.]