Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Natural Resources › NR 100-199 - Environmental Protection - General › Chapter NR 114 - Certification Requirements For Waterworks, Wastewater Treatment Plant, Septage Servicing And Water System Operators › Subchapter I - Certification of Waterworks Operators › Section NR 114.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this subchapter:
(1) "Certificate" means a printed document
				  issued by the department, pursuant to this subchapter, stating that the
				  operator named therein has met the competency requirements for one or more
				  operator grades and subclasses.
(2)
				  "Certified operator" means a person who has met the requirements of this
				  subchapter and has been issued a certificate by the department to work at one
				  or more of the classifications of waterworks.
(3) "Classification" or "class" means a
				  number assigned to a waterworks based on a rating system.
(3m) "Community water system" has the meaning
				  given in s.
				  NR
				  809.04(4).
Note
Section
					 NR
					 809.04(4) defines "community water
					 system" to mean "a public water system which serves at least 15 service
					 connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25
					 year-round residents. Any public water system serving 7 or more homes, 10 or
					 more mobile homes, 10 or more apartment units, or 10 or more condominium units
					 shall be considered a community water system unless information is available to
					 indicate that 25 year-round residents will not be served."
(4) "Department" means the department of
				  natural resources.
(5) "Direct
				  responsible charge" means to provide detailed on-site technical direction of
				  the operation of a waterworks.
(6)
				  "Experience in the operation of a waterworks" means to have performed the basic
				  duties involved with the operation of a specific treatment subclass for 12
				  months, or to have provided daily on-site technical supervision of the operator
				  or operators performing those duties.
(7) "Grade" means a number indicating the
				  classification assigned to a person based on successful completion of an
				  examination and experience, except that the operator-in-training grade is
				  denoted by the letter "T".
(9m)
				  "Non-transient non-community water system" means a non-community water system
				  that regularly serves at least 25 of the same persons over 6 months per year
				  and is not a waterworks as defined in sub. (15). Examples of non-transient
				  non-community water systems include but are not limited to those serving
				  schools, day care centers and factories.
(10) "Operate" means to be in direct
				  responsible charge of a subclass or subclasses of operations at a
				  waterworks.
(11)
				  "Operator-in-charge" means the person designated by the owner of a waterworks
				  to be in direct responsible charge of a subclass of operations of the
				  waterworks. Not included in this definition are utility managers, city
				  engineers, directors of public works or the equivalent, who are not actually
				  involved in day-to-day operations.
(11m) "Other than municipal community water
				  system" means a community water system that is not a municipal water system and
				  is not a waterworks as defined in sub. (15). Examples of other than municipal
				  community water systems include but are not limited to those serving mobile
				  home parks, apartments and condominiums.
(12) "Owner" means the state, county, town,
				  town sanitary district, city, village, corporation, firm, company, institution,
				  association, utility district, school district, or individual owning or
				  operating any waterworks.
(13)
				  "Subclass" means a letter assigned to a waterworks based upon a particular type
				  of process at the waterworks and the letter assigned to a person based on
				  passing an examination for a specific operational process.
(14m) "Water system" means an other than
				  municipal community or a non-transient non-community water system as defined in
				  subs. (11m) and (9m) respectively.
(15) "Waterworks" means a community water
				  system owned by, or a private utility serving, a county, city, village, town,
				  town sanitary district, utility district or a county-owned or state-owned
				  public institution for congregate care or correction, which includes but is not
				  limited to correctional institutions, correctional camp systems, county jails
				  or houses of correction, mental health institutes, schools for the handicapped,
				  hospitals, infirmaries and asylums.
Sub. (16) is repealed eff. 7-1-15 by CR
						13-054.