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. |
| (z) |
"Webinar" means a live online educational
presentation that is instructor led with student interaction, where student
participation is monitored and verified. |
