Washington Administrative Code › Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508) › Chapter 173-446 - Climate Commitment Act program rule › OFFSETS › Section 173-446-525 - Monitoring, reporting, and record retention requirements for offset projects

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) General
				requirements for monitoring equipment for offset projects. The offset project
				operator or authorized project designee must employ the procedures set forth in
				the applicable compliance offset protocol for monitoring measurements and
				project performance for offset projects. All required monitoring equipment must
				be maintained and calibrated in a manner and at a frequency required by the
				equipment manufacturer, unless otherwise specified in the applicable compliance
				offset protocol. All modeling, monitoring, sampling, and testing procedures
				must be conducted in a manner consistent with the applicable compliance offset
				protocol.
(2) The offset project
				operator or authorized project designee must use the missing data methods as
				provided in the applicable compliance offset protocol for that offset project
				type, if provided and applicable.
(3) An offset project operator or authorized
				project designee must install and operate all monitoring equipment and
				mechanisms required by the applicable compliance offset protocol for that
				offset project type as set forth in WAC 173-446-505(3).
(4) Offset project reporting requirements. An
				offset project operator or authorized project designee shall submit an offset
				project data report to ecology or the offset project registry, as applicable,
				for each reporting period.
(a) Each offset
				project data report must cover a single reporting period. Reporting periods
				must be contiguous, and there must be no gaps in reporting once the first
				reporting period has commenced.
(b)
				The offset project operator or authorized project designee must submit an
				offset project data report to ecology or the offset project registry, as
				applicable, within 28 months of listing their offset project and must also meet
				all other applicable deadlines pertaining to submittal of the offset project
				data report.
(i) An offset project data report
				may be submitted after the deadline identified in this subsection, but before
				the end of the next reporting period, to maintain continuous reporting for
				purposes of (a) of this subsection; however, no ecology offset credits will be
				issued for the GHG emission reductions or removal enhancements quantified and
				reported in the untimely offset project data report.
(ii) If the offset project operator or
				authorized project designee does not submit an offset project data report to
				ecology or an offset project registry within 28 months of listing an offset
				project, then the offset project operator or authorized project designee must
				update the listing information in the offset project data report to reflect the
				most recently adopted version of the applicable compliance offset protocol for
				that project type in order to remain eligible to be issued ecology offset
				credits. If an offset project data report that does not meet the 28 month
				deadline also fails to meet the four month deadline set in this section set
				forth in subsection (5) of this section, an offset project data report covering
				the reporting period must be submitted using the most recently adopted version
				of the applicable compliance offset protocol; however, no ecology offset
				credits will be issued for the GHG emission reductions or removal
				enhancements.
(iii) For forestry
				offset projects, when an offset project data report is not filed within the
				deadline specified in this subsection, the values used for
				AConsite,y-1 and BConsite,y-1 in
				the offset project data report for the subsequent reporting period will be the
				AConsite,y and BConsite,y values
				reported in the untimely offset project data report for the preceding reporting
				period. The offset project data report shall contain the information required
				by the applicable version of the compliance offset protocol for that offset
				project type as set forth in WAC 174-446-505(3).
(iv) For ozone depleting substance projects,
				one offset project data report may be submitted for each offset project and the
				offset project data report may cover up to a maximum of 12 months of
				data.
(v) If the offset project
				operator or authorized project designee fails to submit an offset project data
				report as required by this subsection, then the offset project will be
				considered terminated and no longer eligible for ecology offset
				credits.