Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-182 - Oil spill contingency plan › Part III - DRILL AND EQUIPMENT VERIFICATION PROGRAM › Section 173-182-710 - Type and frequency of drills

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following drills shall be conducted 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.
Must be scheduled at least 60 days in advance, except
						  the worst case discharge scenario at least 90 days in advance.
Deployment drills
6 - Done two per year
These drills shall include, GRP deployments, testing of
						  each type of equipment to demonstrating compliance with the planning standards.
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
						  vessel speeds.
No notice.
ERTV Deployment Drill for covered vessels
						  transiting the Strait of Juan de Fuca
1 - One in each three year cycle, this is an additional
						  deployment drill unless it is incorporated into a large multiobjective
						  deployment drill.
This drill may involve notifications and tug
						  call out, communications safety, tug demonstration of making up to, stopping,
						  holding, and towing a drifting or disabled vessel and holding position within
						  one hundred feet of another vessel.
Scheduled at least 30 days in advance.
Credit for this drill may be achieved from a call out
						  of the tug to a vessel emergency.
Wildlife Deployment Drill
1 - One in each three year cycle. This is an additional
						  drill .
This drill will be a deployment of wildlife equipment
						  and wildlife response service provider personnel.
Scheduled at least 90 days in advance.
Multiple plan 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 plan holder's capability
				to manage a spill using the incident command system (ICS) and the spill
				management team described in the plan. 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:
(a) Worldwide Response Resource List
				identification numbers for response resources; and
(b) Personnel names, affiliation, home base
				and command post or field role.