Washington Administrative Code

In counties that have adopted a home rule charter, as provided for in Article 11 subsection 4 of the state Constitution, the duties and responsibilities of the county engineer set forth in chapter 36.80 RCW may be modified by the county legislative authority as allowed by existin…

In order to implement the requirements of this chapter, the county legislative authority shall develop and by resolution or ordinance adopt written policies, within the limits of existing state law, that cover any matters relating to county road department administration, mainten…

Each county legislative authority shall submit to the county road administration board one copy of each adopted policy required in WAC 136-50-050 and any subsequent revisions thereto, within 10 business days of adoption. The county road administration board shall maintain a curre…

To ensure that the standards of good practice are followed and, to facilitate county road administration board assistance and support to the counties, the county engineer shall notify the county legislative authority and the county road administration board within five business d…

If a county fails to comply with any portion of this chapter, the matter will be considered at the next regular meeting of the county road administration board. The county road administration board may take any action deemed necessary to ensure a county's compliance with this cha…

RCW 36.78.070 provides that the county road administration board shall administer the emergency revolving loan program established by chapter 36.78 RCW. This chapter describes the manner in which the county road administration board will administer the provisions of the emergency…

For this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:(1) Board - County road administration board as defined in chapter 36.78 RCW.(2) CRAB - County road administration board.(3) DDIR - Detailed damage inspection report used by the Federal Highway Administration as an applicati…

Eligible work under this chapter is work of either a temporary or a permanent nature. Permanent work must restore the roadway to the predisaster condition and may include necessary improvements to bring the damaged roadway to current design standards. This work must be the result…

Any county who is eligible to participate in the rural arterial program, has a current certificate of good practice and a total population under 800,000 as of April 1, 2019, is eligible to participate in this program.[Statutory Authority: Chapter 36.78 RCW. WSR 20-04-076, § 136-5…

(1) There are two project types eligible for funding under this program:(a) Site specific - Single location.(b) County wide - Multiple sites within a single county.(2) To request a loan through this program, the county shall submit the following:(a) A copy of the adopted emergenc…

Project funding is limited to two million dollars or fifty percent of available fund balance, whichever value is less. If a county desires funding above these limits, the county's legislative authority may request additional funding at the next regularly scheduled board meeting.[…

If CRAB receives multiple loan requests resulting from a single regional event, funding shall be prioritized. Prioritization will be made by averaging the county rankings for the following criteria:(1) RCW 46.68.124(2) - Annual road costs. Counties ranked from lowest road cost fa…

Any loan funded through this program shall have a term not to exceed twenty-four months. The county will be invoiced six months from the date of contract execution and quarterly thereafter until the end of the contract term. If a county desires a longer payback term, the county's…

The executive director of CRAB is authorized to execute a contract with any eligible county under this program with a not to exceed amount of two million dollars or fifty percent of available fund balance, whichever value is less. A county may request additional funding through t…

Should a county fail to meet the requirements of this chapter or the terms of the contract, the matter will be before the board at their next regularly scheduled meeting. The county will be requested to be present for said meeting to provide an explanation for failing to meet the…

Consistent with RCW 43.01.036, the board must submit a report to the legislature by December 1st of each even-numbered year identifying each project that received money from the CRAB emergency loan account, the amount of the loan, the expected repayment terms of the loan, the exp…

RCW 46.68.124(2) provides that the county road administration board shall maintain the county road log for the purpose of computing estimated county road replacement costs and estimated annual maintenance costs for county fuel tax allocations. It further provides that each county…

For this chapter the following definitions shall apply:(1) County road log - The listing, by county, of all roads under county jurisdiction including their description, length, milepost identification, functional class, surface type, traffic volume, Federal Highway Administration…

Each county shall be responsible for maintaining current information regarding its road log and, no later than April 1st of each year, shall submit an updated road log for its complete road system with all data elements as of December 31st of the preceding year. This annual updat…

All control field updates will be subject to review, approval and acceptance (i.e., "validation") by the county road administration board. This process will involve reviewing the submitted documentation and conducting spot-checks as may be necessary. All such updates which are re…

Each update of a road log segment that involves a change in a control field (including additions or deletions of road segments) will be validated by the county road administration board. Documentation necessary to support control field changes is as follows:Function class - Notic…

Each county shall use the asset management system for the maintenance and updating of its county road log prescribed by the county road administration board. Each county shall be responsible for the purchase of additional licenses not otherwise provided by the county road adminis…

Any traffic counts used to validate that a segment has an ADT over 5,000 or has more than 4,000,000 tons of freight annually shall be updated by December 31, 2025. After December 31, 2025, traffic counts for ADT over 5,000 validation shall be updated a minimum of every four years…

The laws of the state of Washington make detailed provision in chapter 36.33A RCW for the use of an equipment rental and revolving fund for all county road equipment, materials, and supplies. Chapter 36.33A RCW also specifies that the county road administration board has the abil…

For this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:(1) Board - County road administration board as defined in chapter 36.78 RCW.(2) County vehicle ferry - A ferry boat owned by the county for the purpose of carrying vehicles but may also carry walk-on passengers.(3) CRAB - C…

This chapter is only applicable to that equipment, materials, and supplies within ER&R that are associated with the county road department. Any other county department participating in a county's ER&R program is excluded from the requirements of this chapter.[Statutory Authority:…

Only county road departments are required by chapter 36.33A RCW to utilize an ER&R fund. However, a county's legislative authority may choose to allow or require other county departments and offices to participate in the ER&R program. If noncounty road entities participate in the…

Rental rates of equipment shall be reviewed annually, or every two years for counties that budget on a biennial basis, by the county's legislative authority. Rental rates must include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) Estimated service life in years and service life rema…

Rates for the sale of any material or supplies which have been administered, purchased, maintained, or manufactured with ER&R funds for the use of the county road department must include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) Cost of purchasing, storing, and distributing the …

Each county engineer shall submit the following documents to CRAB no later than April 1st of each year:(1) Adopted county road rental rates as of January 1st of that year;(2) The resolution of the legislative authority adopting said rates;(3) ER&R management policy.[Statutory Aut…

RCW 46.68.090 authorizes the county road administration board to adopt rules for administering the county arterial preservation account, including the requirement that each county implement a pavement management system. This chapter outlines the method by which the use of a pavem…

A pavement management system (PMS) is a systematic method used to manage the preservation, rehabilitation, and maintenance of paved road systems by analyzing pavement life cycles, to assess overall system performance and costs, and to determine the alternative strategies and cost…

A pavement management system shall be used by all counties to guide the pavement preservation and rehabilitation activities on all county paved collector and arterial roads. Beginning January 1, 1996, each county shall utilize a computer-based PMS meeting the requirements of WAC …

Each county's PMS shall meet the following minimum standards:(1) All county jurisdiction paved collectors and arterials, as defined by the most recently approved county road log as described in chapter 136-60 WAC, shall be surveyed for visual pavement distress at least biennially…

Any PMS distress determination and evaluation methodologies, processes or systems may be used if they yield pavement condition ratings comparable to the process described in WAC 136-70-040. Counties must satisfactorily demonstrate to the county road administration board that thei…

The county road administration board shall maintain a pavement condition data file, organized by county, containing the pavement condition ratings as provided annually by each county.[Statutory Authority: Chapter 36.79 RCW. WSR 99-01-021, § 136-70-060, filed 12/7/98, effective 1/…

On an annual basis, beginning in calendar year 1993, the executive director of the county road administration board shall review the implementation of and, beginning in calendar year 1995, the compliance with, the requirements of WAC 136-70-040 and report the results to the count…

To assist each county to meet its eligibility requirements, the county road administration board shall a provide PMS software option and training for that option. Should a county utilize an alternative PMS software option, the county road administration board will not offer train…

The results and/or data from the individual or collective county pavement management systems will not be used to distribute CAPA funds nor to establish priorities for specific projects or otherwise alter the statutory fund distribution. Said results and/or data will be used to ev…

RCW 36.170.010 provides for a county local road program (LRP) to be established and that the county road administration board shall adopt rules necessary to implement said program. This chapter describes the manner in which the county road administration board will implement the …

The county road administration board shall adopt rules in accordance with the provisions of statute, chapter 36.170 RCW, for purposes of administering the LRP regarding the following:(1) Eligibility to receive funds.(2) Functional classification. (3) LRP projects in the six-year …

(1) Only those counties that, during the preceding 12 months, have spent all revenues collected for road purposes only, for such purposes, RCW 36.82.070, and including traffic law enforcement as allowed under Article II, section 40 of the state Constitution, are eligible to recei…

(1) The statute specifies that eligible projects must be roads not federally classified as an arterial or collector.(2) Each LRP project application submitted shall show the functional classification of the road or roads included in the project. Prior to project approval, the boa…

Proposed projects must be included in the respective county's six-year plan as provided in RCW 36.81.121 before board approval of the project.[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.78.070 and 36.170.010. WSR 26-08-028, s 136-700-050, filed 3/23/26, effective 4/23/26.]

In order to assure effective and timely administration of the LRP, the county road administration board may delegate authority in specific matters to its executive director. Delegation may be relative to signing of contracts, approval of LRP project vouchers, approval of change o…

The board shall include a program status report in the board's annual report to the legislature as provided in RCW 36.78.070.[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.78.070 and 36.170.010. WSR 26-08-028, s 136-700-070, filed 3/23/26, effective 4/23/26.]

Chapter 36.170 RCW sets forth the criteria that will be used in determining the priority of specific improvement projects. This chapter describes how each LRP project type will rate and be prioritized statewide by project type.[Statutory Authority: RCW 36.78.070 and 36.170.010. W…

The county road administration board has determined that the interests of the counties will be best served by encouraging development of distinct project priority rating systems for each project type.There shall be six project types eligible for LRP funding, with each having sepa…

(1) Through the application process the applicant shall identify the considerations used while submitting the project. At a minimum, the applicant shall consider the following priority rating factors:(a) Investment in overburdened communities;(b) Environmental health disparities …

In the event that no projects or an insufficient number of projects are submitted in any project type to utilize the LRP funds set aside for the project type, all remaining funds shall be divided among the remaining project types as the county road administration board deems appr…