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 B - Planning Standards › Section 173-186-310 - Equipment planning standards

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) The equipment necessary to address the
				  worst case spill volume is brought to an incident over a period of time. The
				  methodology to determine this is described in WAC 173-186-380 and 173-186-400.
				  The spreadsheet referred to in WAC 173-186-380 will be used to demonstrate
				  compliance with these equipment requirements.
(2) The following planning points shall be
				  used to calculate the equipment access and timelines, as applicable to the plan
				  holder. There shall be at least one planning point for each plan. If rail
				  operates in an area where a planning point does not exist, ecology will develop
				  one or more planning points during the plan review process.
Location
Within a five mile radius of a
							 point at Latitude/Longitude
Bellingham
48°457.003"N, 122°29'2.115"W
Mukilteo/Everett
47°58'15.401"N, 122°13'44.976"W
Seattle
47°35'32.642"N, 122°19'49.044"W
Tacoma
47°14'39.119"N, 122°24'23.921"W
Centralia/Chehalis
46°41'26.620"N, 122°58'9.712"W
Longview/Kelso
46°9'15.778"N, 122°54'57.501"W
Aberdeen
46°58'32.008"N, 123°48'33.378"W
Vancouver
45°40'29.530"N, 122°41'31.781"W
Coulee City
47°36'38.209"N, 119°17'43.416"W
Tri-Cities (Kennewick)
46°12'34.024"N, 119°6'14.065"W
Colfax
46°52'38.350"N, 117°21'10.692"W
Clarkston
46°25'53.599"N, 117°3'25.114"W
Spokane
47°39'57.991"N, 117°23'24.746"W
Colville
48°38'18.875"N, 118°4'48.810"W
Pend Oreille/Colville National Forest
48°45'54.659"N, 117°24'9.704"W
Okanogan
48°21'52.386"N, 119°34'28.344"W
Wenatchee
47°27'16.949"N, 120°20'0.204"W
Yakima/Union Gap
46°32'1.385"N, 120°28'23.376"W
Moses Lake
47°6'41.058"N, 119°17'0.334"W
Bingen
45°43'15.298"N, 121°29'4.066"W
(3) All rail plan holders shall demonstrate
				  access to the equipment in the table below within the time frames identified
				  based on the areas rail plan holders operate.
Time (hours)
Boom/Assessment
Minimum Oil Recovery Rate % of WCS
							 volume per 24 hours
Minimum Storage in Barrels
6
A safety assessment of the spill by
							 trained crew and appropriate air monitoring could have arrived 5,000 feet of
							 boom available for containment, recovery or protection could have arrived
							 Alternatively, resources identified to deploy a site specific strategy to keep
							 oil from entering surface waters or penetrating into the ground could have
							 arrived
Capacity to recover the lesser of 10% of
							 worst case spill volume or 4,100 barrels within 24-hour period could have
							 arrived
1 times the effective daily recovery
							 capacity (EDRC) appropriate to operating environment
12
Additional 20,000 feet of boom to be used
							 for containment, protection or recovery could have arrived
Capacity to recover the lesser of 15% of
							 worst case spill volume or 12,000 barrels within 24-hour period could have
							 arrived
1.5 times the EDRC appropriate to
							 operating environment
24
More boom as necessary for containment,
							 recovery or protection
Capacity to recover the lesser of 20% of
							 worst case spill volume or 16,000 barrels within 24-hour period could have
							 arrived
2 times the EDRC appropriate to operating
							 environment
48
More boom as necessary for containment,
							 recovery or protection
Capacity to recover the lesser of 25% of
							 worst case spill volume or 20,000 barrels within 24-hour period could have
							 arrived
More as necessary to not slow the
							 response