New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 7 - WASTEWATER AND WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES
Part 4 - UTILITY OPERATOR CERTIFICATION
Section 20.7.4.22 - MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTIFICATION
Universal Citation: 20 NM Admin Code 20.7.4.22
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. The minimum requirements for each level of certification are:
(1) SW, SWA, SWW, SWWA,
WS1, WW1, WWLT1, DS1 and CS1 certification require high school graduation, or
general equivalency diploma, one year of experience and successful completion
of ten training credits;
(2) WS2,
WW2, WWLT2, DS2 and CS2 certification require high school graduation, or
general equivalency diploma, two years of experience and successful completion
of thirty training credits;
(3)
WS3, WW3, WWLT3 and DS3 certification require high school graduation, or
general equivalency diploma, four years of experience and successful completion
of fifty training credits;
(4) WS4
and WW4 certification require high school graduation, or general equivalency
diploma, one year's experience, as appropriate, as a WS3 and WW3 certificate
holder and successful completion of eighty training credits;
(5) WST1 certification requires high school
graduation, or general equivalency diploma, and successful completion of five
training credits;
(6) WST2
certification requires high school graduation, or general equivalency diploma,
and successful completion of ten training credits.
B. Substitutions.
(1) In no case shall the actual experience be
less than one year for any level except as in Subparagraph (d) of Paragraph (2)
of Subsection B of this section.
(2) Education may be substituted for the
basic requirements or used for training credits as follows. In no case may the
same education serve both as a substitution for experience and as training
credits except as provided in this section.
(a) One year of additional experience may be
substituted for the high school graduation or general equivalency diploma
requirement for all levels of certification except level 4.
(b) No more than one year (30 semester hours)
of successfully completed college education in a non-related field may be
substituted for an additional six months of the required experience.
(c) One year of an approved vocational school
in the water and/or wastewater field may be substituted for only one additional
year of the required experience.
(d) An associate's degree for a two-year
program in an approved school in the water and/or wastewater field and six
months of actual experience in that field (which may be accrued before, during,
or after the school program) may be substituted for the requirements of any
level up to and including level 2. An associate's degree for a two-year program
in an approved school in the water and/or wastewater field and twelve months of
actual experience in that field (which may be accrued before, during, or after
the school program) may be substituted for the requirements of a level
3.
(e) Completion of at least three
years of actual experience in the water and/or wastewater field plus high
school diploma or equivalent, plus 15 semester hours of successfully completed
college education directly related to the water or wastewater field may be
substituted for any level up to and including level 3.
(f) A bachelor's degree for a major directly
related to the water or wastewater field plus two years of actual experience in
that field may be substituted for any level up to and including level
3.
(3) Full time water
and wastewater laboratory experience may be substituted for operator experience
in a respective field at a rate of 25 percent of the actual experience
held.
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