Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R657 - Wildlife Resources
Rule R657-60 - Aquatic Invasive Species Interdiction
Section R657-60-2 - Definitions
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 657-60-2
Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024
(1) Terms used in this rule are defined in Sections 23-13-2 and 23-27-102.
(2) In addition:
(a) "Conveyance" means a terrestrial or
aquatic vehicle, including a vessel, or a vehicle part that may carry or
contain a Dreissena mussel.
(b)
"Decontaminate" or "Decontaminated" means to comply with one of the following
methods:
(i) if no adult mussels are attached
to the conveyance after exiting the water body, an owner or operator may
self-decontaminate equipment or a conveyance that has been in an infested water
in the previous 30 days by:
(A) removing all
plants, fish, and mud from the equipment or conveyance;
(B) draining all water from the equipment or
conveyance, including water held in ballast tanks, bilges, livewells, and
motors; and
(C) drying the
equipment or conveyance for no less than seven days in June, July and August;18
days in September, October, November, March, April and May; 30 days in
December, January and February; or expose the equipment or conveyance to
sub-freezing temperatures for 72 consecutive hours; or
(D) if all water cannot be drained from the
conveyance, or the conveyance has a complex water or mechanical system that the
division determines poses a significant risk that Dreissena mussels could
remain on the conveyance after the dry time identified in Subsection (C),
fulfilling the requirements of Subsection (A) and (B) to the extent practicable
and drying the conveyance for no less than 30 days;
(ii) professionally decontaminate equipment
or a conveyance that has been in an infested water in the previous 30 days by:
(A) using a professional decontamination
service approved by the division to flush any areas where water is held,
including ballast tanks, bilges, livewells, and motors, and to apply scalding
water to all conveyance and equipment surfaces at the temperature and immersion
time necessary for 100 percent mussel mortality as provided in the Uniform
Minimum Protocols and Standards for Watercraft Inspection and Decontamination
Programs for Dreissenid Mussels in the Western United States; and
(B) complete a mandatory 30 day dry time
after the scalding water wash is completed if the division determines that, due
to the complexity of water or mechanical systems on the conveyance, a
significant risk that Dreissena mussels remain present on the conveyance
regardless of receiving a scalding water wash described in Subsection (A);
or
(iii) complying with
all protocols identified in a certificate of registration.
(c) "Detected Water" or "Detected" means a
water body, facility, or water supply system where the presence of a Dreissena
mussel is indicated in two consecutive sampling events using visual
identification or microscopy and the results of each sampling event is
confirmed in two polymerase chain reaction tests, each conducted at independent
laboratories.
(d) "Dreissena
mussel" means a mussel of the genus Dreissena at any life stage, including a
zebra mussel, a quagga mussel and a Conrad's false mussel.
(e) "Controlling entity" means the owner,
operator, or manager of a water body, facility, or a water supply
system.
(f) "Equipment" means an
article, tool, implement, or device capable of carrying or containing water or
Dreissena mussel.
(g) "Facility"
means a structure that is located within or adjacent to a water body.
(h) "Highway" has the same meaning as
Subsection
72-1-102(7).
(i) "Infested Water" or "Infested" means a
water body, facility, water supply system, or geographic region where the
presence of multiple age classes of attached Dreissena mussels is indicated in
two or more consecutive sampling events using visual detection or microscopy
and the result of each sampling event is confirmed in two polymerase chain
reaction tests, each conducted at independent laboratories.
(j) "Juvenile or adult Dreissena mussel"
means a macroscopic Dreissena mussel that is not a veliger.
(k) "Quarantine" means imposing a required
minimum period of time where a conveyance must stay at a predetermined location
in order to minimize the risk that Dreissena mussels are spread.
(l) "Suspected Water" or 'Suspected" means a
water body, facility, or water supply system where the presence of a Dreissena
mussel is indicated through a single sampling event using visual identification
or microscopy and the result of that sampling event is confirmed in two
independent polymerase chain reaction tests, each conducted at independent
laboratories.
(m) "Veliger" means a
microscopic, planktonic larva of Dreissena mussel.
(n) "Vessel" has the same meaning as
Subsection
73-18-2(19).
(o) "Water body" means natural or impounded
surface water, including a stream, river, spring, lake, reservoir, pond,
wetland, tank, and fountain.
(p)
"Water supply system" means a system that treats, conveys, or distributes water
for irrigation, industrial, wastewater treatment, or culinary use, including a
pump, canal, ditch or, pipeline.
(q) "Water supply system" does not include a
water body.
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