Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 277.02 - Definitions
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 the person's 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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