New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 7 - WASTEWATER AND WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES › Part 4 - UTILITY OPERATOR CERTIFICATION › Section 20.7.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
All terms used in this part shall have the following
				  meanings:
A. "act" means the Utility
				Operators Certification Act, NMSA 1978, Sections
				61-33-1 to
				10;
B. "board" means the utility
				operators certification advisory board;
C. "certified operator" means a person who is
				certified by the department as being qualified to operate one of the
				classifications of public water supply systems or public wastewater
				facilities;
D. "collection system"
				means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains, and all other
				devices, appurtenances and facilities used for collecting and conducting waste
				to a point of treatment and disposal;
E. "commission" means the water quality
				control commission;
F. "department"
				means the New Mexico environment department;
G. "distribution system" means pipelines,
				appurtenances, devices and facilities which carry potable water under pressure
				to each consumer;
H. "domestic
				liquid waste" means human excreta and water-carried waste from typical
				residential plumbing fixtures and activities, including but not limited to
				waste from toilets, sinks, bath fixtures, clothes or dishwashing machines and
				floor drains;
I. "domestic liquid
				waste treatment unit" means any system that is designed to discharge less than
				two thousand gallons per day and that is subject to the rules promulgated by
				the environmental improvement board pursuant to Paragraph (3) of Subsection (A)
				of Section
				74-1-8
				NMSA 1978 or a watertight unit designed, constructed and installed to stabilize
				only domestic liquid waste and to retain solids contained in such domestic
				liquid waste, including septic tanks;
J. "education" means academic credit received
				attending any public or private primary, secondary or high school, approved
				vocational training courses in the water supply and wastewater field, college
				or university;
K. "experience"
				means actual work experience, full or part-time, as an operator in the fields
				of public water supply or public wastewater treatment; work experience in a
				related field may be accepted at the discretion of the department;
L. "operate" means performing any activity or
				function or making any process control or system integrity decision regarding
				water quality or water quantity that has the potential to affect the proper
				functioning of a public water supply system or public wastewater facility or to
				affect human health, public welfare or the environment; the term "operate" does
				not include the operation of monitoring equipment from a distantly remote
				location;
M. "operator" means any
				person who operates a public water supply system or public wastewater
				facility;
N. "owner" means the
				person or persons who own(s) any part of a public water supply system or public
				wastewater facility;
O. "person"
				means any agency, department or instrumentality of the United States and any of
				its officers, agents or employees, the state or any agency, institution or
				political subdivision thereof, any public or private corporation, individual,
				partnership, association or other entity, and includes any officer or governing
				or managing body of any political subdivision or public or private
				corporation;
P. "population served"
				means actual or estimated maximum number of persons served by the public water
				supply system or public wastewater facility;
Q. "public wastewater facility" means a
				system of structures, equipment and processes designed to collect and treat
				domestic and industrial waste and dispose of the effluent, but does not
				include:
(1) any domestic liquid waste
				treatment unit;
(2) any industrial
				facility subject to an industrial pretreatment program regulated by the United
				States environmental protection agency under the requirement of the federal
				Clean Water Act of 1977; or
(3) any
				waste treatment system which is strictly limited to treating non-human,
				agricultural waste;