New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 10A - LICENSING OF WATER SUPPLY AND WASTER TREATMENT SYSTEM OPERATORS › Subchapter 1 - WATER SUPPLY AND WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS: EXAMINING AND LICENSING OF OPERATORS › Section 7:10A-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Act" means the Water Supply and Wastewater Operators
				  Licensing Act,
				  58:11-64 et seq.
"Associates degree" means successful completion of two years
				  of formal education at an accredited college resulting in an engineering or
				  related science degree or post secondary vocational program or a bachelors
				  degree in a field that does not meet the requirements of the bachelors degree
				  category as defined in this subchapter.
"Automated system" means a treatment system that is designed
				  and constructed in such a manner that no untreated or partially treated water
				  or wastewater is discharged in the event of treatment system failure; such
				  automated system shall include an alarm system by which a constantly staffed
				  monitoring location will be notified that system failure has occurred.
"Bachelors degree" means four years of formal education at an
				  accredited college resulting in an engineering or related science
				  degree.
"Board" means the Board of Examiners established by
				  7:10A-1.3.
"Classification" means the level of operation for a system,
				  specifically, VSWS, 1, 2, 3 or 4, as determined pursuant to
				  7:10A-1.14.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of
				  Environmental Protection of the State of New Jersey.
"Controlling agency" means any agency with the authority,
				  either granted by statute or delegated by the Department pursuant to law, to
				  enforce the provisions of this chapter.
"Department" means the Department of Environmental Protection
				  of the State of New Jersey.
"Direct responsible charge experience" means active, daily,
				  on-site supervision, including operation and maintenance responsibilities in a
				  system with a classification no less than one classification lower than the
				  license sought. This experience shall be gained while in possession of a
				  license no less than one grade lower than the license sought.
"Division" means the Division of Revenue in the Department of
				  Treasury.
"Examination and Licensing Unit" means the unit within
				  Contract and Administrative Operations in the Department of Environmental
				  Protection, PO Box 441, Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0441.
"Full time operator" means an operator who is in attendance
				  at a system for at least seven hours each day for at least five days and at
				  least 35 hours each week during an ordinary one week period.
"Industrial Wastewater Treatment System" means any structure
				  or structures by means of which non-sanitary liquid wastes or sludges are
				  subjected to any treatment process which requires the issuance of an individual
				  NJPDES permit or general permit authorization and from which a discharge occurs
				  in order to remove or alter the constituents so as to render the wastes or
				  sludges less offensive or dangerous to public health, safety, welfare, comfort,
				  property or environment of the State or any inhabitants of the State before
				  discharge of the resulting effluent either directly or indirectly into any
				  waters of the State.
"License" means a certificate of competency, issued by the
				  Department, stating that the holder has met the requirements of a particular
				  system classification.
"Licensed operator" means the licensee approved by the
				  Department holding any local title, designation, or job description who is
				  on-site at a system a significant amount of time, although not necessarily full
				  time, and who has active involvement in and is responsible for the operation,
				  and maintenance, and effectiveness of the system and who holds a license equal
				  or superior to that required for the system.
"Licensee" means a person who possesses a valid license
				  issued by the Department pursuant to the Act.
"Metal finishing" means any of the following metal finishing
				  operations performed on any basis material: electroplating; electroless
				  plating; anodizing; coating (chromating, phosphating, and coloring); chemical
				  etching and milling; and printed circuit board manufacturing.
"NJPDES" means the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination
				  System as defined at N.J.A.C. 7:14A.
"Oil water separator" means an industrial wastewater
				  treatment system designed for the separation and removal of insoluble oils or
				  floating grease.
"Operating experience" means the time spent in the
				  satisfactory performance of operational duties at a system which is acceptable
				  to the Board. For an industrial wastewater treatment system (N) license,
				  manufacturing and process experience may be acceptable in lieu of operating
				  experience.
"Operating requirements" means provisions of permits or
				  approvals, administrative orders, directives, or rules and regulations which
				  the Department may issue or adopt to ensure the safe and efficient operation of
				  systems, consistent with statutory authority.
"Owner" means any municipality, institution, authority,
				  commission, corporation, person or other similar body who owns or controls a
				  system.
"Population equivalent" means the number of individuals who
				  would normally be expected to generate a given flow or quantity of pollutants,
				  based either on 100 gallons per day or 0.17 lbs. BOD or suspended solids per
				  person per day. For the purposes of this chapter population equivalent shall be
				  used only to classify public wastewater collection systems (C).
"Proof of equivalent training" means a transcript and
				  description of relevant courses, including textbooks used in such courses,
				  taken by an applicant.
"Public Non-Community Surface Water Treatment System" means a
				  non-community water system using surface water or groundwater under the direct
				  influence of surface water that is subjected to water treatment.
"Public Wastewater Collection System" means a system which
				  serves more than 250 people or conveys more than 25,000 gallons of wastewater
				  per day which is regulated by the Department pursuant to the Water Pollution
				  Control Act,
				  58:10A-1 et seq., and which system
				  consists of structures which, operating alone or with other structures, result
				  in the collection and conveyance of wastewater from private, commercial,
				  institutional or industrial sources, to public wastewater treatment plants for
				  subsequent treatment, or a system which solely transmits treated effluent from
				  a public wastewater treatment system for disposal.
"Public Wastewater Treatment System" means any structure or
				  structures by means of which domestic, or combined domestic and non-sanitary
				  liquid wastes or sewage are subjected to any treatment process in order to
				  remove or so alter the constituents as to render the wastes less offensive or
				  dangerous to public health, safety, welfare, comfort, property or environment
				  of the State or any inhabitants of the State before discharge of the resulting
				  effluent either directly or indirectly into any waters of the State, and which
				  is regulated by the Department pursuant to the authority of the Water Pollution
				  Control Act,
				  58:10A-1 et seq.
"Public Water Distribution System" means a system comprising
				  structures which is a public community water system or a public nontransient
				  noncommunity water system identified by a specific ID number pursuant to the
				  Safe Drinking Water Act Regulations, N.J.A.C. 7:10, and which operating alone
				  or with other structures, results in the derivation, conveyance (or
				  transmission) or distribution of piped water for human consumption and domestic
				  purposes.
"Public Water Treatment System" means any structure or
				  structures delivering water into a public water distribution system as
				  identified by a specific ID Number pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act
				  Regulations, N.J.A.C. 7:10, and which subjects water, prior to use for potable
				  purposes, to the addition or subtraction of a substance or substances in order
				  to enhance the safeness, palatability, public health, purity, or aesthetic
				  qualities; or reduce the corrosive or hazardous properties of the water
				  used.
"Sedimentation unit" means any industrial wastewater
				  treatment system at which wastewater is only physically, not chemically,
				  treated to reduce suspended solids including a clarifier, settling tank,
				  lagoon, basin or pond, detention basin or pond, or sedimentation basin or
				  pond.
"System" means any Industrial Wastewater Treatment System,
				  Public Wastewater Collection System, Public Wastewater Treatment System, Public
				  Water Distribution System, Public Water Treatment System or Public
				  Non-Community Surface Water Treatment System.
"Training contact hours (TCHs)" means the hours of training a
				  licensed operator has received through a seminar, workshop, training course,
				  college course or other means as approved by the Department.
"Variations in raw waste" means, for the purpose of
				  classifying public wastewater treatment systems, the frequency and/or intensity
				  of deviation or excessive variation from normal or typical fluctuations in raw
				  waste influent flow; such deviation can be determined in terms of strength,
				  toxicity, shock loads or inflow/infiltration.
"Very Small Water System (VSWS)" means:
1. A public community water system, that serves 100 or fewer
				  dwellings or properties, that does not use treatment; or
2. A public nontransient noncommunity water system which does
				  not use treatment or uses treatment in the form of disinfection, home style ion
				  exchange units or any other treatment that does not require chemical addition,
				  process adjustment, backwashing, media regeneration (for example, calcium
				  carbonate filters, granular activated carbon, cartridge filters).
"Waters of the State" means the ocean and its estuaries, all
				  springs, groundwater, streams or bodies of surface waters, whether natural or
				  artificial, within the boundaries of this State or subject to its
				  jurisdiction.