WAC 296-826-100 Scope

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This chapter applies to employers who use, handle, store, distribute, or transport anhydrous ammonia.

• Operations covered by this chapter include, but aren't limited to:
  • -All distributors of anhydrous ammonia, including distributors who store and transport anhydrous ammonia on trucks delivering to a farm.
  • -Any employer who stores and handles anhydrous ammonia to use in water treatment plants, acid production, metal processing, pollution control, or make products such as:
    • Fertilizers
    • Synthetic resins
    • Plastics and intermediates
    • Hexamine for explosives
    • Dyes
    • Insecticides
• Operations not covered by this chapter include:
  • -The manufacture of anhydrous ammonia.
  • -Mechanical refrigeration systems where ammonia is used solely as a refrigerant.
  • -Pipelines transporting anhydrous ammonia into or out of a storage facility.
  • -Agricultural operations within the scope of Chapter 296-307 WAC. When a distributor delivers anhydrous ammonia to a farmer, the requirements for agricultural operations apply:
    • As soon as the farmer takes possession of the truck or equipment containing ammonia from the distributor, this includes the farmer picking up the farm truck or equipment from the distributor.
    • An ammonia distributor begins performing agricultural operations using their ammonia at the farm.