Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation § Trans 277.02 - Definitions
Current through March 28, 2022
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 his or her 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.
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