Section 18 AAC 74.900 - DefinitionsUnless the context indicates otherwise, in this chapter
(1) "applicant" means a person seeking a certificate under this chapter;(2) "approved" means approved by the department;(3) "board" means the Water and Wastewater Works Advisory Board created by AS 46.30.020;(4) "certificate" means a certificate of competency, issued to an operator by the department, stating that the operator has met the requirements for the specified level of the certification program;(5) "CEU" means continuing education unit;(6) "community water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;(7) "department" means the Department of Environmental Conservation;(8) "director" means the director of the department's division in which the operator certification program resides;(9) "groundwater under the direct influence of surface water" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;(10) "main line lift station" means a pumping facility that is designed to lift wastewater from a portion of the main line at an elevation to another portion of the main line at a higher elevation; "main line lift station" does not include a wastewater sump from which wastewater is pumped from a household, building, building complex, or septic tank into the main line;(11) "non-transient non-community water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;(12) "on-site" means to be present at a system during normal operations;(13) "operating experience" means the time spent at a system in satisfactory performance of operation duties;(14) repealed 11/26/2016;(15) "operator" means a person engaged in the operation of a water supply or wastewater system; "operator" does not ordinarily mean an official, such as the city engineer or public works superintendent, exercising only general administrative supervision;(16) repealed 11/26/2016;(17) "public water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;(18) "service connection" means a pipe, with all its parts, that connects a water or sewer main with building plumbing;(19) "supervising operator" means an operator who makes process control and system integrity decisions about water quality or quantity that affect human health, safety, and welfare;(20) "surface water" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;(21) "system" means a water system or a wastewater system;(22) "transient non-community water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;(23) "validated examination" means an examination that is independently reviewed by subject matter experts to ensure that it is based on a job analysis and related to the classification of the system;(24) "wastewater collection system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains, and all other related constructions, devices, and appliances used to conduct wastewater to a wastewater treatment system;(25) "wastewater system" means the system of pipes, structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic or industrial wastewater and dispose of the effluent;(26) "wastewater treatment system" means devices, structures, and equipment used to treat, neutralize, stabilize, or dispose of wastewater and residuals;(27) "water distribution system" means post-treatment storage facilities, conduits, mains, lines, pumping stations, or other devices used to carry water to the consumer;(28) "water system" means any source of water, intake works, collection system, treatment works, storage facility, or distribution system from which water is available for human consumption; "water system" includes systems providing water to more than one residence, or to a factory, office building, restaurant, school, or similar facility. "Water system" does not include a system serving only a single-family residence;(29) "water treatment system" means devices, structures, and equipment used to condition, purify, or refine water for human consumption.(30) "community septic task" means a septic task that serves(A) one or more multi-family dwellings;(B) a mobile home park, a trailer park, or a recreational vehicle park;(C) two or more (i) private residences; in this sub-subparagraph, "private residence" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 72.990;(ii) commercial establishments;(iii) industrial establishments; or(D) a combination of two or more of the structures listed in (C)(i) - (iv) of this paragraph;(31) "examinee" means an individual who has registered for a certification examination.Eff. 8/21/78, Register 67; am 2/21/81, Register 77; am 8/24/85, Register 95; am 5/29/93, Register 126; am 1/18/2001, Register 157; am 12/3/2006, Register 180; am 11/26/2016, Register 220, January 2017As of Register 180 (January 2007), the definitions in 18 AAC 74.900 were reorganized to put them in alphabetical order, regardless of when each of them was adopted.