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) |
"Class IV Public Water Supply System"
means any very small public water supply system in this state which is a
ground-water system serving a population of less than 1,000. |
| (d) |
"Course work" means curriculum as
approved by the Board. |
| (e) |
"Division" means the Environmental Protection Division of the Department of
Natural Resources. |
| (f) |
"Laboratory
analyst" means any person who performs a laboratory test in conjunction with
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. Also excluded are those tests performed
in a commercial environmental laboratory that is approved under the Division's
"Rules for Commercial Environmental Laboratories." |
| (h) |
"Operator" means any person who performs
operation duties, as defined by the Board, at wastewater treatment plants,
wastewater collection systems, water distribution systems, public water supply
systems, or water treatment plants. |
| (i) |
"Operator in responsible charge" means
any operator who has direct general charge of the day-to-day field operation of
a wastewater treatment plant, wastewater collection system, water distribution
system, or public water supply system, and who is responsible for the quality
of the treated water or wastewater effluent; |
| (j) |
"Operation duties":
| 1. |
for a wastewater treatment plant and for a
water treatment plant 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 for a water distribution system means the on
site supervision of the cleaning, maintaining, and repairing of the
system. |
|
| (k) |
"Points"
means continuing education requirements by the board as a condition of
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. |
| (l) |
"Process
Control decisions" means decisions which may affect the treatment and,
therefore, quality of the treated water and/or wastewater effluent. |
| (m) |
"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. |
| (n) |
"Supervision"
means accountability for the work of the supervise. |
| (o) |
"System" means all integral unit
operations and processes, including conduits, appurtenances, machine, control
elements and laboratory functions. |
| (p) |
"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. |
| (q) |
"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. Any uncertified person who was operating an industrial
wastewater treatment plant on or before July 1, 1991, may provide training to a
trainee at that plant until June 30, 1996. |
| (r) |
"Very small public water supply system"
means any public water supply system in this state which is a ground-water
system serving a population of less than 1,000. |
| (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. |
| (y) |
"Water treatment system" means a public
water supply system as classified by the Division and as defined in the
Act. |
