Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A) The director
shall appoint
a
professional operator certification advisory council consisting of eight
members as set forth in this rule.
(1) Two
members shall be employees of the Ohio environmental protection agency. One
member shall be from the drinking water program and one from the surface water
program.
(2) Two members shall hold
valid class III or class IV public water system professional operator certifications and be actively
employed by public water systems at the time of appointment.
(3) Two members shall hold valid class III or
class IV wastewater works professional operator
certifications and be actively employed by wastewater works at the time of
appointment.
(4) Two members shall
be registered professional engineers who are actively employed in the field of
sanitary or environmental engineering at the time of appointment.
(5) Except for the two agency members, no two
council members shall be employed by the same entity.
(B) Members of the council shall be appointed
for a term not to exceed five years and shall not serve longer than two
consecutive terms, except as allowed in paragraph (C) of this rule.
(C) Any vacancy occurring on the council
shall be filled by the director's appointment of a member for the balance of
the unexpired term. A council member appointed for the balance of an unexpired
term may be appointed for up to two additional consecutive full
terms.
(D) The council meetings
shall be administered by the members of the agency.
(E) Terms of appointment pursuant to this
rule shall expire on a staggered schedule as follows:
(1) The two members who are employees of the
agency shall have terms that expire on the thirtieth of June in
years that end in
four or nine .
(2) The two members
who are employed by public water systems shall have terms that expire on the
thirtieth of June in
years that end in zero or five
for one member and in
years
that end in two or seven for the other member.
(3) The two members who are employed by
treatment works shall have terms that expire on the thirtieth of June in
years
that end in one or six for one member and in
years that end in
three or eight for the other member.
(4) The two members who are actively employed
as sanitary or environmental engineers shall have terms that expire on the
thirtieth of June in years that end in two or seven
for one member and in
years
that end in three or eight for the other member.
(F) Council members shall be reimbursed for
reasonable expenses related to
council activities.
