Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Transportation › Chapter Trans 277 - Highway Salt Storage Requirements › Section Trans 277.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
			 "Chloride" means sodium chloride (NaCl) or calcium chloride (CaCl2).
(2) "Department" means the Wisconsin
			 department of transportation.
(3)
			 "Distribute" means to import, consign, sell, offer for sale, solicit orders for
			 sale, deliver or otherwise supply highway salt, or bulk quantities of a
			 chloride otherwise suitable for application to highways whether for use or
			 resale.
(4) "Enforcement standard"
			 has the meaning specified under s.
			 160.01(2),
			 Stats.
Note:
See also ch. NR 140, Wis. Adm. Code for
				specific standards adopted.
(5) "Highways" means all ways and
			 thoroughfares and bridges on the same and any streets, alleys, driveways,
			 parking areas, state trunk highways, county trunk highways, town roads,
			 national parkways, expressways, interstate highways, freeways and roadways
			 commonly used for vehicular traffic, whether public or private.
(6) "Highway salt" means bulk quantities of
			 sodium chloride or calcium chloride intended for application to highways and
			 includes mixtures of sand and sodium chloride or calcium chloride in any
			 proportion. If any portion of a bulk quantity of sodium chloride, calcium
			 chloride or chloride-and-sand mixture is intended for application to highways,
			 then the entire bulk quantity is highway salt for the purposes of this chapter.
			 Liquid calcium chloride is not included in this definition. "Bulk quantity" of
			 a chloride means 1000 avoirdupois pounds or more of a chloride distributed in
			 unpackaged form but does not include any chloride in a solid form, including
			 granules, which is packaged in bags or other units which do not exceed 100
			 avoirdupois pounds (45 kg.) each. Any chloride which is distributed in the form
			 of a solid block weighing at least 50 avoirdupois pounds is packaged, for
			 purposes of this chapter, while in block form. "Bulk quantities of a chloride"
			 includes all such chlorides, not expressly excepted, which are stored for the
			 purpose of subsequent application upon highways, whether by the person storing
			 the highway salt or by others, and includes bulk quantities of such chlorides
			 which are suitable for application to highways, and stored by a person who
			 distributes or manufactures highway salt, whether for the person's own use or
			 to distribute to others.
(7)
			 "Liquid calcium chloride" means a fluid which is an aqueous solution of calcium
			 chloride, in any concentration, intended a) for application to highway salt to
			 increase its effectiveness at lower temperatures, or b) for direct application
			 to highways.
(8) "Manufacture"
			 means to process, granulate, compound, produce, mix or alter the composition of
			 highway salt, including adding liquid calcium chloride to highway
			 salt.
(9) "Monitoring agency" means
			 the department of natural resources.
(10) "Person" means any natural person,
			 partnership, corporation, business entity or governmental body.
(11) "Point of standards application" has the
			 meaning specified under s.
			 160.01(5),
			 Stats.
(12) "Preventive action
			 limit" has the meaning specified under s.
			 160.01(6),
			 Stats.
Note:
See also ch. NR 140, Wis. Adm. Code for
				specific standards adopted.
(13) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
			 Wisconsin department of transportation.
(14) "Store" means to store, stockpile or
			 otherwise own, possess or control highway salt including storage incidental to
			 manufacture, distribution or use, but does not include the transportation of
			 highway salt or applying a substance regulated by the department to
			 highways.
(15) "Storage facility"
			 means the site where a person stores a substance regulated by the department,
			 enclosed by boundaries at the outermost edges of either the structures required
			 by s. Trans 277.04 (3) (a) and (b), or other existing physical container of the
			 substance, or, in the absence of a structure or other container, "storage
			 facility" means the area enclosed by a boundary at the actual circumference of
			 a highway salt stockpile.
(16)
			 "Substance regulated by the department" means sodium chloride or calcium
			 chloride from highway salt and calcium chloride from liquid calcium
			 chloride.
(17) "Surface water"
			 means those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries
			 of Wisconsin, and all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, impounding
			 reservoirs, marshes, water-courses and drainage systems, whether natural or
			 artificial, public or private, excluding subsurface sewer systems.
(18) "Use" means to apply highway salt to
			 highways.
(19) "Waters of the
			 state" has the meaning specified under s.
			 281.01(18),
			 Stats., and specifically includes groundwater as defined by s.
			 160.01(4),
			 Stats.