Section Env-Ws 901.08 - Operating Experience Requirements(a) Subject to (b)(1), below, a minimum of 50% of the operating experience requirement shall be met by actual on-site operating experience at a plant.(b) An applicant may request substitutions for required operating experience based on the following criteria:(1) 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;(2) 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 shall be substituted for any stated experience requirement subject to the 50% limitation stated in (a), above;(3) High school education shall not be credited toward any stated experience requirement, but relevant post-high school education shall be substituted for any stated experience requirement on a year-for-year basis, subject to the 50% limitation stated in (a), above;(4) Education applied in substitution for any stated experience requirements shall not also be applied to the education requirement;(5) For a Grade II OIT, the minimum 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; and(6) Specialized operator training courses, seminars, workshops, and technical conferences which are relevant to the wastewater industry, as specifically identified in (b)(2), above, may be substituted for any stated experience requirements, subject to the 50% limitation stated in (a), above, and provided the calculation shall be based on CEUs in accordance with Env-Ws 901.14.N.H. Code Admin. R. Env-Ws 901.08
#1774, eff 7-15-81; ss by #2352, eff 4-26-83; ss by #2851, eff 9-21-84, EXPIRED: 9-21-90
New. #6326, INTERIM, eff 9-3-96, EXPIRED: 1-1-97
New. #6502, eff 4-25-97; ss by #8327, eff 4-23-05