(1) The owner or operator of an existing facility must submit the operations manual to ecology within one hundred twenty calendar days from the effective date of this chapter.

(a) Existing Class 1 facilities that have an ecology approved operations manual, on the date this chapter becomes effective, may submit only the new changes to the operations manual instead of resubmitting the entire operations manual.

(b) For Class 1 facilities that begin operations after the effective date of this chapter, the owner or operator must submit an operations manual to ecology at least one hundred twenty calendar days prior to conducting an oil transfer operation.

(2) One paper and one electronic copy of the operations manual and appendices must be delivered to:

The Department of Ecology

Spill Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Program

Operations Manual

P.O. Box 47600

Olympia, WA 98504-7600

Or

The Department of Ecology

Spill Prevention, Preparedness, and Response Program

Operations Manual

300 Desmond Drive

Lacey, WA 98503

(3) The operations manual submitter may request that proprietary information be kept confidential under RCW 43.21A.160.