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Changes effective January 1, 2015. 80 Federal Register (F.R.) 1114 and 1116: January 1, 2016 (delayed compliance date). The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) amended the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize the HMR with recent changes made to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, the International Civil Aviation Organization's Technical Instructions (ICAO TI) for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, the United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UN Model Regulations) and subsequently address three petitions for rule making.

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Changes effective July 7, 2015. 80 F.R. 26644: PHMSA, in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), adopted requirements designed to reduce the consequences and, in some instances, reduce the probability of accidents involving trains transporting large quantities of flammable liquids. The final rule defines certain trains transporting large volumes of flammable liquids as "high-hazard flammable trains" (HHFT) and regulates their operation in terms of speed restrictions, braking systems, and routing. The final rule also adopts safety improvements in tank car design standards, a sampling and classification program for unrefined petroleum-based products, and notification requirements.

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Changes effective November 9, 2015. 80 F.R. 54418: PHMSA adopted regulations to include the standard operating procedures and criteria used to evaluate applications for special permits and approvals. This rule making addresses issues identified in the Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Improvement Act of 2012 related to the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety's Approvals and Permits Division. In addition, this rule making also provides clarity regarding what conditions need to be satisfied to promote special permit application completeness.

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Changes effective January 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 1149-1151: January 1, 2015 (voluntary compliance)/January 1, 2016 (delayed compliance). PHMSA amended the HMR to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize the HMR with recent changes made to the IMDG Code, the ICAO TI for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, the UN Model Regulations and subsequently address three petitions for rule making.

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Changes effective July 7, 2015. 80 F.R. 26746: PHMSA, in coordination with FRA, adopted requirements designed to reduce the consequences and, in some instances, reduce the probability of accidents involving trains transporting large quantities of flammable liquids. The final rule defines certain trains transporting large volumes of flammable liquids as HHFT and regulates their operation in terms of speed restrictions, braking systems, and routing. The final rule also adopts safety improvements in tank car design standards, a sampling and classification program for unrefined petroleum-based products, and notification requirements.

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Changes effective January 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 1151-1163: January 1, 2015 (voluntary compliance)/January 1, 2016 (delayed compliance). PHMSA amended the HMR to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize the HMR with recent changes made to the IMDG Code, the ICAO TI for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, the UN Model Regulations and subsequently address three petitions for rule making.

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Changes effective July 7, 2015: 80 F.R. 26644-26748: PHMSA, in coordination with FRA, adopted requirements designed to reduce the consequences and, in some instances, reduce the probability of accidents involving trains transporting large quantities of flammable liquids. The final rule defines certain trains transporting large volumes of flammable liquids as HHFT and regulates their operation in terms of speed restrictions, braking systems, and routing. The final rule also adopts safety improvements in tank car design standards, a sampling and classification program for unrefined petroleum-based products, and notification requirements.

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Changes effective April 13, 2015. 80 F.R. 19551-0: This action amended the United States Department of Transportation's (DOT) regulations to incorporate changes to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's chain of custody and control form (CCF) recently approved by the Office of Management and Budget. Specifically, this rule making expands the DOT's definition of the CCF to include both paper and electronic forms.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59071: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective June 2, 2015. 80 F.R. 18155: FMCSA specifies inflation adjustments to civil penalty amounts assessed to those who violate FMCSRs and HMRs. Some of these adjustments are required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 (Adjustment Act), as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA) of 1996. This final rule ensures that FMCSA's civil penalties are consistent with the applicable statutes.

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Changes effective June 22, 2015. 80 F.R. 22810: FMCSA amends the FMCSRs to require certified medical examiners (ME) performing physical examinations of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers to use a newly developed Medical Examination Report (MER) Form, MCSA-5875, in place of the current MER Form and to use Form MCSA-5876 for the Medical Examiner's Certificate (MEC); and report results of all CMV drivers' physical examinations performed (including the results of examinations where the driver was found not to be qualified) to FMCSA by midnight (local time) of the next calendar day following the examination. The reporting of results includes all CMV drivers who are required to be medically certified to operate in interstate commerce, not only those who hold or apply for commercial learner's permits (CLP) or commercial driver's licenses (CDL), and results of any examinations performed in accordance with the FMCSRs with any applicable state variances (which will be valid for intrastate operations only). For holders of CLP/CDLs (interstate and intrastate), FMCSA will electronically transmit driver identification, examination results, and restriction information from examinations performed from the National Registry to the State Driver's Licensing Agencies (SDLA). The agency will also transmit medical variance information for all CMV drivers electronically to the SDLAs.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59072: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective June 2, 2015. 80 F.R. 18155: FMCSA specifies inflation adjustments to civil penalty amounts assessed to those who violate FMCSRs and HMRs. Some of these adjustments are required by the Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the DCIA of 1996. This final rule ensures that FMCSA's civil penalties are consistent with the applicable statutes.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59073: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to a UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective October 2, 2014. 79 F.R. 59457: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update references, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule did not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations.

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Changes effective July 27, 2015. 80 F.R. 30178: FMCSA adopted regulations governing the lease and interchange of passenger-carrying CMVs to: Identify the motor carrier operating a passenger-carrying CMV that is responsible for compliance with FMCSRs; and ensure that a lessor surrenders control of the CMV for the full term of the lease or temporary exchange of CMVs and drivers. This action is necessary to ensure that unsafe passenger carriers cannot evade FMCSA oversight and enforcement by entering into a questionable lease arrangement to operate under the authority of another carrier that exercises no actual control over those operations.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59074: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to a UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective October 2, 2014. 79 F.R. 59457: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update references, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule did not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations.

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Changes effective June 22, 2015. 80 F.R. 22822: FMCSA amends FMCSRs to require certified MEs performing physical examinations of CMV drivers to use a newly developed MER Form, MCSA-5875, in place of the current MER Form and to use Form MCSA-5876 for the MEC; and report results of all CMV drivers' physical examinations performed (including the results of examinations where the driver was found not to be qualified) to FMCSA by midnight (local time) of the next calendar day following the examination. The reporting of results includes all CMV drivers who are required to be medically certified to operate in interstate commerce, not only those who hold or apply for CLP or CDL, and results of any examinations performed in accordance with FMCSRs with any applicable state variances (which will be valid for intrastate operations only). For holders of CLP/CDLs (interstate and intrastate), FMCSA will electronically transmit driver identification, examination results, and restriction information from examinations performed from the National Registry to the SDLAs. The agency will also transmit medical variance information for all CMV drivers electronically to the SDLAs.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59074-59075: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to a UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective October 2, 2014. 79 F.R. 59457: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update references, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule did not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59075: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to a UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective October 2, 2014. 79 F.R. 59458: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update references, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule did not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations.

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Changes effective October 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 59075: FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical and ministerial corrections throughout Title 49 C.F.R., subtitle B, chapter III. The agency made minor changes to correct errors and omissions, ensure conformity with Office of the Federal Register style guidelines, update cross references, restore an inadvertent deletion of the reference to a UL standard, and improve clarity and consistency of certain regulatory provisions. This rule does not make any substantive changes to the affected regulations, except to remove one obsolete provision.

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Changes effective July 7, 2015: 80 F.R. 26748: PHMSA, in coordination with FRA, adopted requirements designed to reduce the consequences and, in some instances, reduce the probability of accidents involving trains transporting large quantities of flammable liquids. The final rule defines certain trains transporting large volumes of flammable liquids as HHFT and regulates their operation in terms of speed restrictions, braking systems, and routing. The final rule also adopts safety improvements in tank car design standards, a sampling and classification program for unrefined petroleum-based products, and notification requirements.

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Changes effective January 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 1163-1164: January 1, 2015 (voluntary compliance)/January 1, 2016 (delayed compliance). PHMSA amended HMR to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize HMR with recent changes made to the IMDG Code, ICAO TI for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, UN Model Regulations and subsequently address three petitions for rule making.

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Changes effective March 30, 2015. 80 F.R. 16579: PHMSA issued a 2011 final rule in which it did not harmonize with international regulations regarding the carriage of spare fuel cell cartridges in passenger and crew member checked baggage. A company contested this final rule. As a result, PHMSA issued a document which provides a more thorough explanation and substantial evidence to support PHMSA's decision to prohibit the carriage of spare fuel cell cartridges in passenger and crew member checked baggage.

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Changes effective January 1, 2015. 80 F.R. 1164-1165: January 1, 2015 (voluntary compliance)/January 1, 2016 (delayed compliance). PHMSA amended HMR to maintain alignment with international standards by incorporating various amendments, including changes to proper shipping names, hazard classes, packing groups, special provisions, packaging authorizations, air transport quantity limitations, and vessel stowage requirements. These revisions are necessary to harmonize HMR with recent changes made to the IMDG Code, ICAO TI for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air, UN Model Regulations and subsequently address three petitions for rule making.

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Changes effective July 7, 2015. 80 F.R. 26749. PHMSA, in coordination with FRA, adopted requirements designed to reduce the consequences and, in some instances, reduce the probability of accidents involving trains transporting large quantities of flammable liquids. The final rule defines certain trains transporting large volumes of flammable liquids as HHFT and regulates their operation in terms of speed restrictions, braking systems, and routing. The final rule also adopts safety improvements in tank car design standards, a sampling and classification program for unrefined petroleum-based products, and notification requirements permits allow a company or individual to package or ship a hazardous material in a manner that varies from the regulations provided an equivalent level of safety is maintained.

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Changes effective January 6, 2015. 79 F.R. 66500-66501: FRA is establishing minimum training standards for all safety-related railroad employees, as required by the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The final rule requires each railroad or contractor that employs one or more safety-related railroad employee[s] to develop and submit a training program to FRA for approval and to designate the minimum training qualifications for each occupational category of employee. The rule also requires most employers to conduct periodic oversight of their own employees and annual written reviews of their training programs to close performance gaps. The rule also contains specific training and qualification requirements for operators of roadway maintenance machines that can hoist, lower, and horizontally move a suspended load. Finally, the rule clarifies the existing training requirements for railroad and contractor employees that perform brake system inspections, tests, or maintenance.

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Changes effective March 9, 2015. 80 F.R. 786: This final rule requires railroads that operate one or more trains through highway-rail or pathway crossings to submit information to the U.S. DOT National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory about the crossings through which they operate. These amendments, mandated by section 204 of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, require railroads to submit information about previously unreported and new highway-rail and pathway crossings to the U.S. DOT National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory and to periodically update existing crossing data.

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Changes effective May 28, 2015. 80 F.R. 30364: Updated the current schedule of civil penalties for violations of FRA's grade crossing safety regulations by adding recommended civil penalty amounts for violations of specific requirements contained in a recently added subpart. That subpart prescribes requirements that certain railroads establish emergency notification systems for receiving toll-free telephone calls reporting various unsafe conditions at highway-rail grade crossings and pathway grade crossings, and for taking certain actions in response to those calls.

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Changes effective July 2, 2015. 80 F.R. 37992: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency amended certain existing regulations that apply to the transboundary movement of hazardous waste among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries as promulgated under the hazardous waste provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

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No changes to Parts 101 (Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed For Public Utilities and Licensees Subject to the Provisions of the Federal Power Act), 141 (Statements and Reports (Schedules)) and 260 (Statements and Reports (Schedules)), which are specifically referenced in WAC 480-90-203, 480-90-244, 480-90-252 and 480-90-268. WAC 480-90-999(1) adopts the entirety of Title 18 - Conservation of Power and Water Resources, so the effective date has been updated to the most recent version.

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Copies of Title 18 C.F.R. are available from the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., or online at http://www.gpo.gov/, and from various third-party vendors. It is also available for inspection at the commission branch of the state library.

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The electronic copy is available for purchase at the NARUC web site. A print copy is available for inspection at the commission branch of the state library.

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Changes effective March 11, 2015. 80 F.R. 58633-01: PHMSA published a final rule amending the pipeline safety regulations to make miscellaneous changes that updated and clarified certain regulatory requirements. These amendments addressed several subject matter areas, including the performance of post construction inspections, Type B onshore gas gathering line leak surveys, qualifying plastic pipe joiners, ethanol regulation, pipe transportation, offshore pipeline condition report filing, pressure reduction calculations for hazardous liquid pipeline anomalies, and components fabricated by welding. This final rule responds to petitions for reconsideration of the final rule.

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No changes to Parts 101 (Uniform System of Accounts Prescribed for Public Utilities and Licensees Subject to the Provisions of the Federal Power Act), 141 (Statements and Reports (Schedules)) and 260 (Statements and Reports (Schedules)), which are specifically referenced in WAC 480-100-203, 480-100-244, 480-100-252 and 480-100-268. WAC 480-100-999(1) adopts the entirety of Title 18 – Conservation of Power and Water Resources, so the effective date has been updated to the most recent version.

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NEC addresses the installation of electrical conductors, equipment, and raceways; signaling and communications conductors, equipment, and raceways; and optical fiber cables and raceways in commercial, residential, and industrial occupancies.

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Copies of Title 18 C.F.R. are available from the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C., or online at http://www.gpo.gov/, and from various third-party vendors. It is also available for inspection at the commission branch of the state library.

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The electronic copy is available for purchase at the NARUC web site. A print copy is available for inspection at the commission branch of the state library.

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Errata 70-14-2, 70-14-3 and 70-14-4 include corrections to a number of errors in the 2014 edition of National Fire Protection Association's NFPA 70, National Electrical Code.

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ANSI C12.1 – 2008 is available at ANSI web site http://webstore.ansi.org/(PDF) or at IHS Standards Store web site https://global.ihs.com/(PDF and print).

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The previous version of WAC 480-107-999 adopts the version of PURPA Title II, sections 201 and 210 current on the day the WAC was adopted, April 28, 2006. The last update of these two sections of PURPA took place on August 8, 2005. There have been no changes since then. For ease of reference, we adopt PURPA Title II, sections 201 and 210 as of August 8, 2005.

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Title 18 C.F.R. Part 292 – Effective April 1, 2015:

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Changes effective June 29, 2006. 71 F.R. 30585-30589: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) reaffirms its determination and grants clarification in part of Order No. 671, in which it eliminates certain exemptions from rate regulation that were previously available to qualifying facilities (QF).

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Changes effective January 2, 2007. 71 F.R. 64342-64375: FERC amends its rules to implement section 1253(a) of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which adds section 210(m) to PURPA of 1978. Section 210(m) provides for termination of the requirement that an electric utility enter into a new contract or obligation to purchase electric energy from QFs if FERC finds that the QF has nondiscriminatory access to a sufficiently competitive market. FERC identifies which markets meet the criteria contained in section 210(m) and determines whether QFs have nondiscriminatory access to those markets.

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Changes effective January 2, 2007. 71 F.R. 75662: It corrects errors in a final rule FERC published in the F.R. on November 1, 2006.

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Changes effective June 25, 2007. 72 F.R. 29056-29063: FERC eliminates the exemption of QFs from the reliability standards required by section 215 of the Federal Power Act.

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Changes effective July 30, 2007. 72 F.R. 35872-35892: FERC denies rehearing on most issues decided in Order No. 688, which amended its regulations in response to section 1253 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. It clarifies certain aspects of the rule and adopts additional filing requirements.

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Changes effective August 14, 2007. 72 F.R. 45320–45328: FERC revises a number of references that have become outdated for various reasons. It also revises its delegations of authority to allow the secretary to refer complaint proceedings to FERC's Dispute Resolution Service, and to organize better and clarify other delegations.

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Changes effective June 1, 2010. 75 F.R. 15950–15986: FERC revises the filing requirement regarding FERC Form No. 556 and adopted an exemption for small generating facilities from the certification requirement to be a QF.