WAC 246-358-045   Temporary worker housing sites.  The operator must:

     (1) Locate and operate a site to prevent a health or safety hazard that is:

     (a) Adequately drained and any drainage from and through the housing must not endanger any domestic or public water supply;

     (b) Free from periodic flooding and depressions in which water may become a nuisance;

     (c) At least two hundred feet from a swamp, pool, sink hole, or other surface collection of water unless there is a mosquito prevention program for those areas;

     (d) Large enough to prevent overcrowding of necessary structures. The principal housing area for sleeping and for food preparation and eating must be at least five hundred feet from where livestock are kept; and

     (e) The grounds and open areas surrounding the shelters must be in a clean and sanitary condition.

     (2) Must develop and implement a temporary worker housing management plan and rules for operators with ten or more occupants, to assure that the housing is operated in a safe and secure manner and is kept within the approved capacity. Additionally, the licensed operator must:

     (a) Inform occupants of the rules, in a language the occupant understands by providing individual copies of the rules to each occupant or posting the rules in the housing area;

     (b) Restrict the number of occupants in the temporary worker housing to the capacity as determined by the department.

     (3) When closing housing permanently or for the season, complete the following:

     (a) Dispose of all refuse to prevent nuisance;

     (b) Fill all abandoned toilet pits with earth; and

     (c) Leave the grounds and buildings in a clean and sanitary condition.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.114A.065 and 70.114A.110. 00-06-082, § 246-358-045, filed 3/1/00, effective 3/1/00. Statutory Authority: RCW 70.54.110. 96-02-014, § 246-358-045, filed 12/21/95, effective 1/1/96; 93-03-032 (Order 326B), § 246-358-045, filed 1/12/93, effective 2/12/93; 92-04-082 (Order 242B), § 246-358-045, filed 2/5/92, effective 3/7/92. Statutory Authority: RCW 43.20.050. 91-02-051 (Order 124B), recodified as § 246-358-045, filed 12/27/90, effective 1/31/91; 88-10-027 (Order 309), § 248-63-045, filed 5/2/88.]