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Title 18 . Environmental Conservation
Chapter 34 . Administrative Enforcement
Section 520. Water supply and ice

18 AAC 34.520. Water supply and ice

(a) Sources of fresh and salt water supplies for a direct-market fishing vessel must be approved by the department.

(b) Processing water supplies may not come in contact with or become exposed to sewage or other contamination.

(c) Processing water used for final rinsing of a seafood product must be

(1) changed as often as necessary to prevent buildup of blood, slime, or other contamination that might result in an adulterated seafood product; and

(2) disinfected to maintain a measurable residual of free chlorine or another disinfectant approved by the department; processing water must be tested for the residual at least once each day during the operating season; a daily log of the disinfectant residuals must be kept as required by 18 AAC 34.920(b) (5).

(d) Processing water lines on a direct-market fishing vessel may not be cross-connected with bilge pump systems or other nonpotable water lines.

(e) Ice used on a direct-market fishing vessel must comply with 18 AAC 34.080(g) .

History: Eff. 12/18/97, Register 144; readopt 12/2/99, Register 152

Authority: AS 17.20.005

AS 17.20.065

AS 17.20.072

AS 17.20.180

AS 44.46.020

Editor's note: Effective 12/2/99, Register 152, the Department of Environmental Conservation readopted 18 AAC 34.520, without change, to affirm the validity of that section following statutory amendments made in ch. 72, SLA 1998. Chapter 72, SLA 1998 relocated department authority to adopt regulations in 18 AAC 34 from AS 03.05 to AS 17.20.


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