Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 30 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES AND REGISTRATIONS
Subchapter K - PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM OPERATORS AND OPERATIONS COMPANIES
Section 30.387 - Definitions

(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.