Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part V - Preventive Health Services › Subpart 25 - Drinking Water › Chapter 77 - Drinking Water Program › Subchapter B - Public Water System Capacity Development › Section V-7713 - New Systems

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Business
					 Plan. All community and non-transient non-community public water systems
					 wanting to commence operation after January 1, 1999 shall be required to submit
					 a business plan to the department to aid in the department's determination of
					 technical, managerial and financial capacity. Required information for the
					 business plan shall be provided by the department. The Office of Public Health
					 (OPH) will exempt from the requirement for submission of the business plan all
					 new public water systems funded by either the United States Department of
					 Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and/or the Division of
					 Administration's (DOA) Louisiana Community Development Block Grant (LCDBG)
					 program, provided those public water systems are certified by RUS and/or LCDBG
					 as meeting the respective agency's minimum capacity requirements. OPH staff
					 will continue to review plans and specifications for all new public water
					 systems.
B. Operator Requirement.
					 All such prospective public water systems meeting the population requirement to
					 require a certified operator must have an operator who holds a certificate in
					 the appropriate classes) of certification for the population serviced by the
					 system. The system must have an operator on duty at all times, or the operator
					 must be available to respond and be on-site within an hour of notification. Any
					 such prospective public water system not meeting the population requirements at
					 the time of request to commence operation must have an operator who has had at
					 least 16 hours of operator training which meets the guidelines of the State
					 Committee of Certification, and must have at least 16 hours of continuing
					 training yearly. The system must provide such an operator on duty at all times,
					 or the operator must be available to respond and be on-site within an hour of
					 notification. Such requirements for systems not meeting the population
					 requirement for systems not meeting the population requirements for a certified
					 operator shall remain in effect until such time as the United States
					 Environmental (USEPA) requires that all public water systems have certified
					 operators or the state requires same, whichever occurs first. At such time, the
					 then current requirement would be applied.
C. Management Training. As a part of meeting
					 the managerial capacity requirements, all appropriate personnel, e.g., board
					 members, council members, mayors, owners, etc., of new public water systems
					 wanting to commence operation after January 1, 1999, shall attend the next
					 scheduled training session provided by the state, its contractors or other
					 state recognized trainers. Such arrangements shall be made upon making
					 application to the department for approval to commence operation.
D. Financial Audit. A financial audit will be
					 conducted on the system as one means of determining financial capacity of the
					 public water system.
E. Approval
					 for Operation. After January 1, 1999, written approval to commence operation,
					 i.e., issuance of the permit to construct and operate, for such new public
					 water systems will be given by the department only after the department is
					 satisfied that technical, managerial, and financial capacity requirements are
					 being met, in addition to all other applicable regulations. The Office of
					 Public Health (OPH) will issue the permit to construct and operate a new public
					 water system funded by the RUS and/or the LCDBG program, provided those public
					 water systems are certified by RUS and/or LCDBG as meeting the respective
					 funding agency's minimum capacity requirements and the plans and specifications
					 are reviewed and approved by OPH staff.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						40:4.