Washington Administrative Code
Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508)
Chapter 173-441 - Reporting of emissions of greenhouse gases
Section 173-441-086 - Assigned emissions level
Universal Citation: WA Admin Code 173-441-086
Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
(1) Ecology may assign an emissions level to any annual GHG report that:
(a) Failed to submit a complete annual GHG
report by the report submission due date, specified in WAC
173-441-050(2);
(b) Failed to meet the third-party
verification requirements in WAC
173-441-085;
(c) Has an adverse verification statement;
or
(d) Ecology determines a
discrepancy, omission, or misreporting, as described in WAC
173-441-085(3)(b)(i)
through (iv), results in a substantive error
as defined in WAC
173-441-050(7)(c).
This standard also separately applies to any product data in the annual GHG
report.
(2) The assigned emissions level must be used when determining compliance with chapter 70A.65 RCW, as described in chapter 173-446 WAC.
(3) Ecology must use conservative assumptions when setting the assigned emissions level to avoid underestimating emissions in a compliance year or overestimating emissions in a baseline year.
(a) Within five working days of a written
request by ecology, the third-party verifier (if applicable) must provide any
available verification services information or correspondence related to the
emissions data.
(b) Within five
working days of a written request by ecology, the owner or operator of a
reporter must provide the data that is required to calculate GHG emissions for
the reporter according to the requirements of this chapter, the preliminary or
final detailed verification report prepared by the third-party verifier (if
applicable), and other information requested by ecology, including the
operating days and hours of the reporter during the data year. The owner or
operator must also make available personnel who can assist ecology's
determination of an assigned emissions level for the data year.
(4) Ecology may adjust the assigned emissions level if the owner or operator is able to obtain a positive verification statement for the annual GHG report at a later date.
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