Current through August 26, 2024
(1) GENERAL. All
sampling, field work and development of plans for field activities for response
actions being taken to satisfy the requirements of ss.
NR 708.09 to
708.15 or chs.
NR
716 to
754 shall be conducted by or under
the supervision of a professional engineer, hydrogeologist or scientist, unless
sub. (2) or an exemption in s.
NR 712.11 is applicable.
(2)SAMPLING FOR IMMEDIATE AND INTERIM ACTIONS
NOT INVOLVING TREATMENT OR ENGINEERING CONTROLS. For immediate actions and
interim actions that do not involve treatment or engineering controls, samples
of air, soil, water or other media for field measurement or analytical
laboratory analysis are not required to be collected under the supervision of a
professional engineer, hydrogeologist or scientist, but shall be collected by
one of the following, unless the sampling is exempt under s.
NR 712.11(2):
(a) A graduate of a vocational or technical
school with course work in science or engineering who has 40 hours of
supervised field experience; or
(b)
Any person who has all of the following:
1.
40 hours of training in collecting, preserving, filtering and transporting
environmental samples and decontaminating sampling equipment that meets the
requirements of sub. (4) (a).
2. 80
hours of supervised field experience that meets the requirements of sub. (4)
(a).
3. A letter or certificate
that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (b).
(3)SAMPLING FOR INTERIM ACTIONS INVOLVING
TREATMENT OR ENGINEERING CONTROLS AND REMEDIAL ACTIONS. For remedial actions
and interim actions that involve treatment or engineering controls, samples of
air, soil, water or other media for field measurements or analytical laboratory
analysis shall be collected by a professional engineer, hydrogeologist,
scientist or any one of the following working under the supervision of a
professional engineer, hydrogeologist or scientist, unless the sampling is
exempt under s.
NR 712.11(2):
(a) A graduate of a vocational or technical
school with course work in science or engineering who has 40 hours of
supervised field experience; or
(b)
Any other person who has all of the following:
1. 40 hours of training in collecting,
preserving, filtering and transporting environmental samples and
decontaminating sampling equipment that meets the requirements of sub. (4)
(a).
2. 80 hours of supervised
field experience that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (a).
3. A letter or certificate that meets the
requirements of sub. (4) (b).
(4)TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE.
(a) Training and supervised field experience
required by subs. (2) and (3) shall include sampling methods for all media that
a person is expected to sample in the course of his or her
employment.
(b) A letter or
certificate documenting the supervised field experience and training shall be
signed and dated by the person conducting the training. The person conducting
the training must meet the qualifications specified in sub. (2). The letter or
certificate shall be kept on file with the employer. Documentation of
supervised field experience and training shall be provided to the department
upon request.
(5)SOIL
BORING LOGS.
(a) The written descriptions of
soil and rock on soil boring logs shall be prepared by a graduate of an
accredited institution of higher education with a major in an appropriate
science or engineering specialty. This person shall have acquired, through
education and actual field experience, the ability to direct the drilling of
borings, classify geologic samples and evaluate and interpret geologic and
hydrogeologic data. The following academic disciplines are considered
appropriate science specialties for preparers of soil boring logs: earth
sciences, geochemistry, geology, geophysics, hydrogeology and soil science. The
following engineering majors are considered appropriate engineering specialties
for preparers of soil boring logs: environmental, civil, geological,
geotechnical, mining, mineral, petroleum, agricultural and
geophysical.
(b) The logs shall be
developed in accordance with the requirements of ch. NR 141 and shall be signed
by the person that developed the written description in the boring logs of the
soil and rock.
