Alaska Administrative Code › Title 18 - Environmental Conservation › Chapter 74 - Water and Wastewater Operator Certification and Training › Article 3 - General Provisions › 18 AAC 74.900 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this
				  chapter
(1) "applicant" means a person
				seeking a certificate under this chapter;
(2) "approved" means approved by the
				department;
(3) "board" means the
				Water and Wastewater Works Advisory Board created by
				AS
				46.30.020;
(4) "certificate" means a certificate of
				competency, issued to an operator by the department, stating that the operator
				has met the requirements for the specified level of the certification
				program;
(5) "CEU" means continuing
				education unit;
(6) "community
				water system" has the meaning given in
				18 AAC 80.1990;
(7) "department" means the Department of
				Environmental Conservation;
(8)
				"director" means the director of the department's division in which the
				operator certification program resides;
(9) "groundwater under the direct influence
				of surface water" has the meaning given in
				18 AAC 80.1990;
(10) "main line lift station" means a pumping
				facility that is designed to lift wastewater from a portion of the main line at
				an elevation to another portion of the main line at a higher elevation; "main
				line lift station" does not include a wastewater sump from which wastewater is
				pumped from a household, building, building complex, or septic tank into the
				main line;
(11) "non-transient
				non-community water system" has the meaning given in
				18 AAC 80.1990;
(12) "on-site" means to be present at a
				system during normal operations;
(13) "operating experience" means the time
				spent at a system in satisfactory performance of operation duties;
(14) repealed 11/26/2016;
(15) "operator" means a person engaged in the
				operation of a water supply or wastewater system; "operator" does not
				ordinarily mean an official, such as the city engineer or public works
				superintendent, exercising only general administrative supervision;
(16) repealed 11/26/2016;
(17) "public water system" has the meaning
				given in 18 AAC 80.1990;
(18) "service connection" means a pipe, with
				all its parts, that connects a water or sewer main with building
				plumbing;
(19) "supervising
				operator" means an operator who makes process control and system integrity
				decisions about water quality or quantity that affect human health, safety, and
				welfare;
(20) "surface water" has
				the meaning given in
				18 AAC 80.1990;
(21) "system" means a water system or a
				wastewater system;
(22) "transient
				non-community water system" has the meaning given in
				18 AAC 80.1990;
(23) "validated examination" means an
				examination that is independently reviewed by subject matter experts to ensure
				that it is based on a job analysis and related to the classification of the
				system;
(24) "wastewater collection
				system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains, and all
				other related constructions, devices, and appliances used to conduct wastewater
				to a wastewater treatment system;
(25) "wastewater system" means the system of
				pipes, structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away,
				and treat domestic or industrial wastewater and dispose of the
				effluent;
(26) "wastewater
				treatment system" means devices, structures, and equipment used to treat,
				neutralize, stabilize, or dispose of wastewater and residuals;
(27) "water distribution system" means
				post-treatment storage facilities, conduits, mains, lines, pumping stations, or
				other devices used to carry water to the consumer;
(28) "water system" means any source of
				water, intake works, collection system, treatment works, storage facility, or
				distribution system from which water is available for human consumption; "water
				system" includes systems providing water to more than one residence, or to a
				factory, office building, restaurant, school, or similar facility. "Water
				system" does not include a system serving only a single-family
				residence;
(29) "water treatment
				system" means devices, structures, and equipment used to condition, purify, or
				refine water for human consumption.
(30) "community septic task" means a septic
				task that serves
(A) one or more multi-family
				dwellings;
(B) a mobile home park, a
				trailer park, or a recreational vehicle park;
(C) two or more
(i) private residences; in this
				sub-subparagraph, "private residence" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 72.990;
(ii) commercial
				establishments;
(iii) industrial
				establishments; or
(iv)
				institutions; or
(D) a
				combination of two or more of the structures listed in (C)(i) - (iv) of this
				paragraph;