Appropriate credit, to be applied against the experience requirement, shall be granted by the Agency on the following basis:
(a) The Agency shall grant appropriate credit for attendance and successful completion of waterworks seminars, waterworks short courses, waterworks workshops, and applicable correspondence courses. The maximum allowable credit for such non-college-credit educational endeavor shall be one year.(b) The Agency shall grant one year credit for the satisfactory completion of each one fourth of the total hours of academic credit required for the awarding of a Baccalaureate Degree in a curriculum associated with a phase of water supply operation. The maximum allowable credit for such college-credit educational endeavor shall be one and one-half years.(c) Not more than one-half of the experience requirements for the various certificate classes shall be satisfied by the granting of any equivalent experience credit.