Mr. Stokes introduced Mr. Russ Chateauneuf, Chief from Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Their program encompasses permitting, compliance, and licensing of installers and designers. Local communities can have more stringent requirements. Based on their experience, once an IA technology is used, it gets perfected. After a technology is approved, they are concerned with training, testing, monitoring, guidance documents, maintaining a list of approved technologies, reports, and renewals.
Designer has to be involved with the installation of any systems.
Mr. Stokes introduced Susan Weaver from Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Waste Water Management. The Department has designed a very prescriptive process based on the types of soil, perc rates, etc., which dictate the design. Municipalities issue permits. The Department has a list of alternative and experimental technologies that identifies what works in what types of soils. This list now goes through a public review process when technologies are added involving their Sewage Advisory Committee, and is then published.