Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-270 - Puget Sound highway runoff program › Section 173-270-080 - Reporting

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) Biennial report
			 required. WSDOT shall prepare and submit to ecology a report by September 30 of
			 each odd-numbered year beginning September 30, 1991.
(2) Content of report. The biennial report
			 shall include, but is not limited to:
(a)
			 Monitoring report for both approved and experimental BMPs and pesticides
			 describing monitoring procedures and interpreting results. Included may be
			 recommendations to improve monitoring procedures, findings on which BMPs are
			 the most effective, combinations of BMPs that optimize pollution removal, and
			 recommendations for experimental BMPs;
(b) A pesticide usage inventory, including
			 (i) the amount of pesticides by product by pounds of active ingredient applied
			 for shoulder residual, landscaped areas, brush control, general weed control,
			 noxious weed control, spot treatment and broadcast application by district,
			 area, highway segment, and if feasible, by county and (ii) an analysis and
			 interpretation shall be included with the data;
(c) Storage, loading, and mixing area soil
			 and groundwater contamination report for the presence of pesticides, including
			 any cleanup efforts required, proposed, or completed since the adoption of this
			 chapter;
(d) A deicing chemicals
			 and traction grit usage report including:
(i)
			 Product and quantities of deicing chemicals used in the Puget Sound basin by
			 WSDOT district and maintenance area including chemical properties and known
			 effects upon water quality;
(ii)
			 Stockpile locations, with quantities of traction grit abrasive and deicing
			 chemicals used during each season;
(iii) Cleanup practices to prevent or lessen
			 traction grit and deicing chemical entry into waters of the state;
(iv) Locations prohibiting use of deicing
			 chemicals or specific products due to water quality considerations;
(v) Training of personnel;
(vi) Experiments conducted on new products or
			 procedures and experiments that WSDOT proposes;
(e) BMP maintenance report. Reports that
			 shall submit BMP maintenance reports to ecology that shall include, but are not
			 limited to:
(i) Dates that segments of state
			 highway BMPs are inspected and/or maintained;
(ii) The general condition of BMPs;
(iii) Maintenance accomplished;
(iv) The need to reconstruct any
			 BMPs;
(v) Any evaluation of a BMP
			 type;
(vi) Estimated cost to
			 maintain a BMP;
(vii) Suggested
			 improvements to BMPs or their maintenance procedures; and
(viii) Training of personnel;
(f) Inventory for state highways
			 with a fifty thousand ADT or greater required by WAC
			 173-270-060(1);
(g) Priority list for state highways with
			 less than fifty thousand ADT required by WAC
			 173-270-060(3);
(h) Capital improvement program required by
			 WAC 173-270-060(4);
(i) Inventory of all WSDOT highway disposal
			 sites required by WAC
			 173-270-060(6);
(j) Status of roadside management plans by
			 district and maintenance area; and
(k) A summary of the negotiations required by
			 WAC 173-270-060(6).