Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-186 - Oil spill contingency plan-Railroad › Part III - OIL SPILL CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR TYPE A RAILROADS › Section D - Drill and Equipment Verification Program › Section 173-186-510 - Type and frequency of drills

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
To receive the credit from ecology for performing a
					 required drill, the plan holder shall conduct the following drills within each
					 triennial cycle.
Type of Drill
Frequency Within the Triennial Cycle
Special Instructions
Scheduling Instructions
Tabletop drills
3 - One in each year of the cycle
One of the three shall involve a worst case discharge
							 scenario. The worst case discharge scenario drill shall be conducted once every
							 three years.
Scheduled at least 60 days in advance, except the
							 worst case discharge scenario at least 90 days in advance.
Deployment drills
6 - Two per year
These drills include notification, safety assessments,
							 GRP and equipment deployments.
Scheduled at least 30 days in advance.
Ecology initiated unannounced drills
As necessary
This drill may involve testing any component of the
							 plan, including notification procedures, deployment of personnel, boom,
							 recovery and storage equipment, and verification of ecology approved
							 alternative speeds.
No notice.
Wildlife deployment drill
1 - One in each three-year cycle. This is an
							 additional drill unless it is incorporated into a large multiobjective
							 deployment drill
This drill will be a deployment of wildlife equipment
							 and wildlife response service provider personnel.
Scheduled at least 90 days in advance.
Multiplan holder large scale equipment deployment
							 drill
1 - One in each three-year cycle
This drill may involve dedicated and nondedicated
							 equipment, vessels of opportunity, multiple simultaneous tactics, responses to
							 potentially non-floating oils, and the verification of operational readiness
							 over multiple operational periods.
Scheduled at least 90 days in advance.
(1)
Tabletop drills:
Tabletop drills are intended to demonstrate a
				  rail plan holder's capability to manage a spill using the ICS, the SMT, and
				  WRSP described in the plan. Role playing shall be required in this drill.
(a) During all required tabletop drills rail
				  plan holders shall provide a master list of equipment and personnel identified
				  to fill both command post and field operations roles.
(b) Once during each three-year cycle, the
				  rail 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 tabletop
				  drill. However, at ecology's discretion, 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 six years.