Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 90.56 - Oil and Hazardous Substance Spill Prevention and Response.
90.56.580 - Crude oil vapor pressure—Maximum—Penalty.

RCW 90.56.580
Crude oil vapor pressure—Maximum—Penalty.

(1)(a) A facility constructed or permitted after January 1, 2019, may not load or unload crude oil into or from a rail tank car unless the oil has a vapor pressure of less than nine pounds per square inch.
(b) A facility may not load or unload crude oil into or from a rail tank car unless the oil has a vapor pressure of less than nine pounds per square inch beginning two years after the volume of crude oil transported by rail to the facility for a calendar year as reported under RCW 90.56.565 has increased more than ten percent above the volume reported for calendar year 2018.
(2) The director may impose a penalty of up to twenty-five hundred dollars per day per rail tank car or the equivalent volume of oil for violations of this section. Any penalty recovered pursuant to this section must be credited to the coastal protection fund created in RCW 90.48.390.
(3) This section does not: (a) Prohibit a railroad car carrying crude oil from entering Washington; (b) require a railroad car carrying crude oil to stop before entering Washington; or (c) require a railroad car carrying crude oil to be checked for vapor pressure before entering Washington.

[ 2019 c 354 § 1.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 90 - Water Rights—Environment

Chapter 90.56 - Oil and Hazardous Substance Spill Prevention and Response.

90.56.005 - Findings—Purpose.

90.56.010 - Definitions.

90.56.020 - Director responsible for spill response.

90.56.030 - Powers and duties.

90.56.040 - Authority supplemental.

90.56.050 - Rules.

90.56.060 - Statewide master oil and hazardous substance spill prevention and contingency plan—Evaluation and revision or elimination of advisory committees.

90.56.070 - Coordination with federal law.

90.56.080 - Hazardous substances incident response training and education program.

90.56.100 - Washington wildlife rescue coalition.

90.56.110 - Rehabilitation of wildlife—Rules.

90.56.200 - Prevention plans.

90.56.210 - Contingency plans.

90.56.2101 - Contingency plans—Department to update rules.

90.56.220 - Facility operation standards.

90.56.230 - Operations manuals.

90.56.240 - Standards for spill management, cleanup, and containment services contractors.

90.56.250 - Index of prevention plans and contingency plans—Equipment inventory.

90.56.260 - Adequacy of contingency plans—Practice drills—Report.

90.56.270 - Enforcement of contingency plans.

90.56.275 - Joint large-scale, multiple plan equipment deployment drills of onshore and offshore facilities and covered vessels—Requirements.

90.56.280 - Duty to notify coast guard and division of emergency management of discharge.

90.56.300 - Unlawful operation of facility—Criminal penalties.

90.56.310 - Operation of a facility or vessel without contingency or prevention plan or financial responsibility—Civil penalty.

90.56.320 - Unlawful for oil to enter waters—Exceptions.

90.56.330 - Additional penalties.

90.56.340 - Duty to remove oil.

90.56.350 - Investigation, removal, containment, treatment, or dispersal of oil and hazardous substances—Record of expenses.

90.56.360 - Liability for expenses.

90.56.370 - Strict liability of owner or controller of oil—Damages—Exceptions.

90.56.380 - Liability of others for cleanup expenses.

90.56.390 - Liability for removal costs.

90.56.400 - Department investigation of circumstances of entry of oil—Order for reimbursement of expenses—Modification—Action to recover necessary expenses.

90.56.410 - Right of entry and access to records pertinent to investigations.

90.56.420 - Authorized discharges of oil—Permits.

90.56.500 - Oil spill response account.

90.56.510 - Oil spill prevention account.

90.56.530 - Reckless operation of a tank vessel—Penalty.

90.56.540 - Operation of a vessel while under influence of liquor or drugs—Penalty.

90.56.550 - Breath or blood analysis.

90.56.560 - Limited immunity for blood withdrawal.

90.56.565 - Facilities that receive crude oil from a railroad car—Advanced notice system—Department required to report information—Adoption of rules.

90.56.569 - Updates to the senate and house of representatives.

90.56.570 - Periodic evaluation and update of planning standards for oil spill response equipment.

90.56.580 - Crude oil vapor pressure—Maximum—Penalty.

90.56.900 - Construction—Appeal not to stay order, rule, or regulation.

90.56.901 - Effective dates—1991 c 200.