New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 28 - RADIATION PROTECTION PROGRAMS › Subchapter 27 - RADON TESTING AND MITIGATION › Section 7:28-27.34 - Radon mitigation technician

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding the expiration date of his or her certification, an individual who is certified as a radon mitigation technician as of June 6, 2022, shall submit to the Department a complete renewal application as specified at (d) and (e) below or, if the individual meets the requirements of a certified radon mitigation specialist, a complete initial application in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:28-27.24, such that the Department receives the application on or before October 4, 2022.
(b) If an individual certified as a radon mitigation technician as of June 6, 2022 submits an application for certification pursuant to this section such that the Department receives it after October 4, 2022, and on or before December 2, 2022, the certification shall be valid on the later of December 3, 2022, or the date the Department approves the initial application.
(c) The Department will consider a certified radon mitigation technician that submits an application in accordance with (a) above to be certified from June 6, 2022, until the Department notifies the individual that the application has been approved or rejected. An individual that does not timely submit an application for certification in accordance with this section shall not be certified as of December 3, 2022. To become certified, the individual shall submit an application for renewal of an expired certification.
(d) A certified radon mitigation technician shall submit, to the Department, an application for renewal on the form that the Department sends to the individual in advance of June 6, 2022.
(e) The certified mitigation technician shall update the information contained on the form provided at (d) above, and shall provide documentation showing completion of four hours of continuing education from a nationally recognized organization, completed no more than 12 months prior to the renewal application submittal. Documentation shall consist of the training course certificate, which provides the individual's name, the name of the course, the approved course number, the number of credit hours, and the date of the course. Documentation from the conference organizer of the individual's attendance for one day at a national radon training conference or documentation from the training course provider showing an individual instructed four hours of radon continuing education also fulfills this requirement.
(f) A certified radon mitigation technician shall complete an eight-hour multifamily buildings training course and/or an eight-hour schools and large buildings training course approved by a nationally recognized organization, and shall provide a copy of each of these training certificates to the radon mitigation business, in order to mitigate these building types.
(g) Upon Department approval of the renewal application, the radon mitigation technician's certification shall, unless suspended, revoked, or canceled, be valid until December 3, 2023, and cannot thereafter be renewed.
(h) A certified radon mitigation technician may submit an application to be certified as a radon mitigation specialist when he or she meets the requirements at N.J.A.C. 7:28-27.24, Radon mitigation specialist--initial application.
(i) On and after December 3, 2022, a certified radon mitigation technician shall comply with (j) through (o) below.
(j) A certified radon mitigation technician shall affiliate with at least one business in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:28-27.5.
1. For each business, the certified individual shall:
i. Review and comply with the radiological safety plan in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:28-27.15;
ii. Take radiation safety training and pass a subsequent examination in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:28-27.13(g); and
iii. Sign an affiliation form in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:28-27.5; and