Conn. Agencies Regs. § 25-32-7a - Definitions
As used in Sections 25-32-7a to 25-32-14, inclusive:
(a) "(ABC)" means the
Association of Boards of Certification.
(b) "Available" means reasonably accessible
in order to respond to plant or system changes or malfunctions.
(c) "Certified Operator" means an operator
who has met the education, experience and examination requirements specified in
sections 25-32-7a to
25-32-14,
inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies and has been
certified by the department.
(d)
"Chief Operator" means a certified operator who has been designated by the
system as the operator who has direct responsible charge for the operation and
maintenance of the plant, distribution system or small water system.
(e) "Community water system" means a public
water system that serves at least twenty-five (25) residents.
(f) "Conditional operator" means an existing
operator who had direct responsible charge, for at least the one year prior to
the effective date of the most recent revisions of sections 25-32-7a to
25-32-14,
inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, of a plant,
distribution system, or small water system which is required to have a
certified operator for the first time as a result of the most recent revisions
of sections 25-32-7a to
25-32-14,
inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies and has been duly
certified by the department.
(g)
"Department" means Connecticut Department of Public Health.
(h) "Direct Responsible Charge" means active,
daily responsibility for the operation of a plant, distribution system, or
small water system.
(i)
"Distribution system" means any combination of pipes, tanks, pumps, etc. which
delivers water from the source(s) and/or treatment facility or facilities to
the consumer.
(j) "Limited
Operator" means an existing operator who had direct responsible charge as of
February 9, 1989 and has been duly certified by the department.
(k) "Non-transient non-community water
system" (NTNC) means a public water system that is not a community system and
that regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) of the same persons over six
(6) months per year.
(l) "Operator"
means any individual either employed or retained by a public water system who,
as part of their job duties, is assigned the responsibility for operational
activities that shall directly impact the quality and/or quantity of drinking
water provided to consumers.
(m)
"Operator-in-Training" means a person who has received either a Certificate of
Achievement in Water Management from a Connecticut Community -Technical
College, or an equivalent as determined by the Department and who has met the
examination requirements specified in sections 25-32-7a to
25-32-14,
inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(n) "Provisional Operator" means an operator
who is given permission by the Department to have direct responsible charge,
for up to 2 years, to allow the operator to become certified.
(o) "Public water system" or "system" means
any water company, as defined in section
25-32a
of the Connecticut General Statutes (CGS), supplying water to fifteen (15) or
more consumers, as defined in section
25-32a
of the CGS, or twenty-five or more persons daily, at least sixty (60) days of
the year.
(p) "Small water system"
means a community water system or a non-transient non-community water system
that serves less than 1000 persons and has no treatment or has only treatment
which does not require any chemical treatment, process adjustment, backwashing
or media regeneration by an operator.
(q) "Treatment plant" or "plant" means a
building or structure containing equipment for altering the characteristics of
drinking water. Plants, which do not involve any chemical treatment, process
adjustment, backwashing or media regeneration by an operator, are excluded from
this definition.
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