Section Env-Wq 304.08 - Operating Experience Requirements(a) Subject to (b) or (c), below, a minimum of 50% of the operating experience required by Table 304.01 shall be met by actual on-site operating experience at a wastewater treatment plant.(b) For a Grade II OIT, the entire one-year operating experience requirement may be substituted with a minimum of a one-year certificate in wastewater or environmental technology or an Associate degree in a relevant field such as sanitary engineering, environmental technology or studies, water treatment, wastewater treatment, natural sciences, or non-sanitary engineering disciplines.(c) Operating experience in either a water treatment plant or industrial wastewater or pretreatment plant of a grade equal to or greater than the wastewater treatment plant operator grade being applied for, shall be substituted for up to 75% of the on-site experience requirement specified in (a), above.(d) An applicant may request one or more of the following substitutions for the remaining 50% of the operating experience required by Table 304.01: (1) Experience in a related utility division or trade, such as wastewater collections, water distribution, plumbing, electrical, pipe fitting, instrumentation, laboratory, utility construction, utility design, engineering, facilities maintenance and management, and public works;(2) Relevant post-high school education on a year-for-year basis;(3) Specialized operator training courses, seminars, workshops, and technical conferences which are relevant to the wastewater industry, provided the calculation shall be based on CEUs in accordance with Env-Wq 304.19.(e) Education applied in substitution for any stated experience requirements shall not also be applied to the education requirement.N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-Wq 304.08
(See Revision Note at part heading for Env-Wq 304) #10392, eff 8-1-13