30 Tex. Admin. Code § 30.387 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Chief
operator--An individual who has overall responsibility for the operation of a
public water system.
(2) Honorary
license--License converted from a perpetual license that has been discontinued
by the commission. This honorary license does not award the licensee the
authority to perform process control duties in production or distribution of
drinking water for public water systems.
(3) Military operator-in-training--An
individual who is an active duty member of the military of the United States
and has successfully completed the Bioenvironmental Engineering Apprentice
(BEA) or equivalent military training, as determined by the executive director,
and collects microbiological samples and determines disinfection residuals for
military facilities' water distribution systems. This individual may not
perform any other process control duties in the water distribution or treatment
facilities of a military installation.
(4) Operator-in-charge--An individual who has
overall responsibility for the operation of a public water system in the
absence of the chief operator.
(5)
Operator-in-training--An unlicensed individual entering the field of public
water system operation for the first time who has less than one year of
experience and is in training to perform process control duties in production
or distribution of public drinking water.
(6) Public water system operations company--A
person or other nongovernmental entity that provides operations services to one
or more public water systems on a contractual basis.
(7) Public water system operator--Licensed
operator who performs process control duties in production or distribution of
drinking water.
(8) Resiliency
continuing education training--Training on one or more resiliency topics that
is approved by the executive director to count toward the resiliency training
required to renew a license.
(9)
Resiliency Overview Course--The core training that provides an overview of the
resiliency topics outlined by the executive director that can be taken as a
stand-alone course or as part of the updated Basic Waterworks Operations core
course.
(10) Work experience--The
actual performance of job tasks in a public water supply system that are
considered essential for the treatment or distribution of drinking
water.
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