Section 18.74.900. Definitions.

Unless the context indicates otherwise, in this chapter  
		(1) "applicant" means a person seeking a certificate under this chapter;  
		(2) "approved" means approved by the department;  
		(3) "board" means the Water and Wastewater Works Advisory Board created by AS 46.30.020;  
		(4) "certificate" means a certificate of competency, issued to an operator by the department, stating that the operator has met the requirements for the specified level of the certification program;  
		(5) "CEU" means continuing education unit;  
		(6) "community water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;  
		(7) "department" means the Department of Environmental Conservation;  
		(8) "director" means the director of the department's division assigned to facility construction and operation;  
		(9) "groundwater under the direct influence of surface water" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;  
		(10) "main line lift station" means a pumping facility that is designed to lift wastewater from a portion of the main line at an elevation to another portion of the main line at a higher elevation; "main line lift station" does not include a wastewater sump from which wastewater is pumped from a household, building, building complex, or septic tank into the main line;  
		(11) "non-transient non-community water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;  
		(12) "on-site" means to be present at a system during normal operations;  
		(13) "operating experience" means the time spent at a system in satisfactory performance of operation duties;  
		(14) "operating shift" means that period of time during which operator decisions that affect human health, safety, and welfare are necessary for proper operation of the system;  
		(15) "operator" means a person engaged in the operation of a water supply or wastewater system; "operator" does not ordinarily mean an official, such as the city engineer or public works superintendent, exercising only general administrative supervision;  
		(16) "operator in training" means a person receiving on-the-job training under the supervision of a certified operator or through an organized training program, who desires to obtain a certificate and who is, or can show probable employment as, an operator of a water or wastewater system;  
		(17) "public water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;  
		(18) "service connection" means a pipe, with all its parts, that connects a water or sewer main with building plumbing;  
		(19) "supervising operator" means an operator who makes process control and system integrity decisions about water quality or quantity that affect human health, safety, and welfare;  
		(20) "surface water" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;  
		(21) "system" means a water system or a wastewater system;  
		(22) "transient non-community water system" has the meaning given in 18 AAC 80.1990;  
		(23) "validated examination" means an examination that is independently reviewed by subject matter experts to ensure that it is based on a job analysis and related to the classification of the system;  
		(24) "wastewater collection system" means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations and force mains, and all other related constructions, devices, and appliances used to conduct wastewater to a wastewater treatment system;  
		(25) "wastewater system" means the system of pipes, structures, equipment, and processes required to collect, carry away, and treat domestic or industrial wastewater and dispose of the effluent;  
		(26) "wastewater treatment system" means devices, structures, and equipment used to treat, neutralize, stabilize, or dispose of wastewater and residuals;  
		(27) "water distribution system" means post-treatment storage facilities, conduits, mains, lines, pumping stations, or other devices used to carry water to the consumer, and includes a groundwater supply treated only with chlorine;  
		(28) "water system" means any source of water, intake works, collection system, treatment works, storage facility, or distribution system from which water is available for human consumption; "water system" includes systems providing water to more than one residence, or to a factory, office building, restaurant, school, or similar facility. "Water system" does not include a system serving only a single-family residence;  
		(29) "water treatment system" means devices, structures, and equipment used to condition, purify, or refine water for human consumption, and does not include a groundwater supply treated only with chlorine.  

Authorities

46.30.080

Notes

Authority

AS 46.30.080 Editor's note: As of Register 180 (January 2007), the definitions in 18 AAC 74.900 were reorganized to put them in alphabetical order, regardless of when each of them was adopted. ________________________

History

Eff. 8/21/78, Register 67; am 2/21/81, Register 77; am 8/24/85, Register 95; am 5/29/93, Register 126; am 1/18/2001, Register 157; am 12/3/2006, Register 180

References

18.74.900