Chapter 750-2 DEFINITIONS
The following words or phrases as used in these Rules shall,
unless a different meaning is required by context, have the following
meaning:
| (a) |
"Act" means the
certification of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators and Laboratory
Analysts Act, approved April 8, 1969, and as hereafter may be amended. |
| (b) |
"Board" or "Board of Examiners" means the
State Board of Examiners for Certification of Water and Wastewater Treatment
Plant Operators and Laboratory Analysts. |
| (c) |
"Certificate" or "Certification" means a
document issued by the Board stating that the operator or laboratory analyst has
met the requirements for the specified classification of the certification
program. |
| (d) |
"Course(s) means
educational curriculum as approved by the Board. |
| (e) |
"Division" means the Environmental
Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. |
| (f) |
"Laboratory analyst" means any person who
performs a laboratory test in conjunction with the operation of a public water
system or wastewater treatment plant. |
| (g) |
"Laboratory test" means any test performed
in conjunction with the operation of a public water supply or wastewater
treatment plant that is required for regulatory reporting purposes excluding
dissolved oxygen, pH, chlorine residual, turbidity, temperature and specific
conductance. Tests performed in a commercial environmental laboratory approved
under the Division's "Rules for Commercial Environmental Laboratories" are also
excluded. |
| (h) |
"Operational/analytical
topics" means topics of instruction that directly relate to the performance of
the duties of a water operator, wastewater operator, distribution operator,
collection system operator, or laboratory analyst. |
| (i) |
"Operator" means any person who performs
operation duties, as defined by the Board, at wastewater treatment systems,
wastewater collection systems, water distribution systems, public water systems,
or water treatment systems. |
| (j) |
"Operator in responsible charge" means any operator who has direct general charge
of the day-to-day field operation of a wastewater treatment system, wastewater
collection system, water distribution system, or public water system, and who is
responsible for the quality of the treated water or wastewater
effluent. |
| (k) |
"Operation duties":
| 1. |
for a wastewater treatment system and for a
water treatment system means day-to-day process control decisions which may
affect the treatment and, therefore, quality of the treated water and/or
wastewater effluent; and |
| 2. |
for a
wastewater collection system or water distribution system means the on site
supervision of the cleaning, maintaining, and repairing of the
system. |
|
| (l) |
"Points" means
continuing education credits required by the Board for certificate renewal. The
number of points awarded by the Board for a course or conference may or may not
be the same as the number of contact hours in the course or conference. |
| (m) |
"Process Control decisions" means decisions
which may affect the treatment and, therefore, quality of the treated water
and/or wastewater effluent. |
| (n) |
"Public water supply system" means the system of pipes, structures, and
facilities through which water is obtained and treated, to be offered to the
public for household use or for any other public consumption. |
| (o) |
"Supervision" means accountability for the
work of the person being supervised. |
| (p) |
"System" means all integral unit operations
and processes, including conduits, appurtenances, machine, control elements and
laboratory functions. |
| (q) |
"Trainee"
means an individual engaged in a training period. A trainee is not required to
hold a certificate and may not perform operation duties or perform laboratory
test, unless under the direct supervision of a certified operator or a certified
laboratory analyst. |
| (r) |
"Training
period" means a period of time during which a trainee is learning operator or
laboratory analyst duties under the direction of a certified operator or
laboratory analyst. |
| (s) |
"Wastewater
collection system" means the system of sanitary sewers, pipes, manholes, pumps,
and other such apparatus used to convey sewage to wastewater treatment
plants. |
| (t) |
"Wastewater treatment"
means any biological, physical/chemical, or settling processes which remove
pollutants from industrial or domestic wastewaters prior to discharge to a
stream, sewer or land. It includes only those processes permitted by the Division
or an approved local government under the Georgia Water Quality Control Act or
its successor. It excludes those processes that consist solely of one or more of
the following: screening, pH adjustment, sedimentation processes without
mechanical solids removal, septic tanks, grease traps or oil-water separators,
unless specifically required in a permit. |
| (u) |
"Wastewater treatment plant" means the
facilities provided for the treatment and disposal of wastewater, including
industrial process wastewater, as classified by the Division. |
| (v) |
"Wastewater treatment system" means the
combination of a wastewater collection system and a wastewater treatment
plant. |
| (w) |
"Water distribution
system" means the system of pipes, pumps, valves, and other such apparatus used
to distribute water to the public. |
| (x) |
"Water treatment plant" means the portion
of the water supply system which in some way alters the physical, chemical, or
bacteriological quality of the water as classified by the Division and as defined
in the Act. |
| (y) |
"Water treatment
system" means a public water supply system as classified by the Division and as
defined in the Act. |
