N.J. Admin. Code § 7:10A-1.2
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.
N.J. Admin. Code § 7:10A-1.2
See: 20 N.J.R. 1141(b), 21 N.J.R. 750(c).
Definitions for "oil water separator" and "sedimentation unit" added.
Amended by R.1997 d.48, effective 2/3/1997.
See: 28 N.J.R. 4300(a), 29 N.J.R. 480(c).
Added "Associates degree", "Automated system", "Bachelor's degree", "Classification","Controlling agency", "Direct responsible charge experience","Full time operator", "Metal finishing", "NJPDES","Operating experience", "Population equivalent", "Proof of equivalent training", "Public Non-Community Surface Water Treatment System", and "Variations in raw waste"; and amended "Board","Bureau", "Industrial Wastewater Treatment System","Oil water separator", "Public Wastewater Collection System","Public Wastewater Treatment System", "Public Water Treatment System" and "System".
Amended by R.2000 d.406, effective 10/2/2000.
See: 32 N.J.R. 2279(b), 32 N.J.R. 3585(a).
Deleted "Bureau"; added "Division","Examination and Licensing Unit", "License", "Training contact hours (TCHs)" and "Very Small Water System (VSWS)"; and in " Classification", substituted "operation" for "treatment", and inserted "VSWS"; in and "Public Water Distribution System", inserted a reference to public nontrasient noncommunity water systems.