Definitions

As used in Sections 25-32-7a to 25-32-14, inclusive: (a) "(ABC)" means the Association of Boards of Certification. (b) "Available" means reasonably accessible in order to respond to plant or system changes or malfunctions. (c) "Certified Operator" means an operator who has met the education, experience and examination requirements specified in sections 25-32-7a to 25-32-14, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies and has been certified by the department. (d) "Chief Operator" means a certified operator who has been designated by the system as the operator who has direct responsible charge for the operation and maintenance of the plant, distribution system or small water system. (e) "Community water system" means a public water system that serves at least twenty-five (25) residents. (f) "Conditional operator" means an existing operator who had direct responsible charge, for at least the one year prior to the effective date of the most recent revisions of sections 25-32-7a to 25-32-14, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, of a plant, distribution system, or small water system which is required to have a certified operator for the first time as a result of the most recent revisions of sections 25-32-7a to 25-32-14, inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut state agencies and has been duly certified by the department. (g) "Department" means Connecticut Department of Public Health. (h) "Direct Responsible Charge" means active, daily responsibility for the operation of a plant, distribution system, or small water system. (i) "Distribution system" means any combination of pipes, tanks, pumps, etc. which delivers water from the source(s) and/or treatment facility or facilities to the consumer. (j) "Limited Operator" means an existing operator who had direct responsible charge as of February 9, 1989 and has been duly certified by the department. (k) "Non-transient non-community water system" (NTNC) means a public water system that is not a community system and that regularly serves at least twenty-five (25) of the same persons over six (6) months per year. (l) "Operator" means any individual either employed or retained by a public water system who, as part of their job duties, is assigned the responsibility for operational activities that shall directly impact the quality and/or quantity of drinking water provided to consumers. (m) "Operator-in-Training" means a person who has received either a Certificate of Achievement in Water Management from a Connecticut Community -Technical College, or an equivalent as determined by the Department and who has met the examination requirements specified in sections 25-32-7a to 25-32-14, inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies. (n) "Provisional Operator" means an operator who is given permission by the Department to have direct responsible charge, for up to 2 years, to allow the operator to become certified. (o) "Public water system" or "system" means any water company, as defined in section 25-32a of the Connecticut General Statutes (CGS), supplying water to fifteen (15) or more consumers, as defined in section 25-32a of the CGS, or twenty-five or more persons daily, at least sixty (60) days of the year. (p) "Small water system" means a community water system or a non-transient non-community water system that serves less than 1000 persons and has no treatment or has only treatment which does not require any chemical treatment, process adjustment, backwashing or media regeneration by an operator. (q) "Treatment plant" or "plant" means a building or structure containing equipment for altering the characteristics of drinking water. Plants, which do not involve any chemical treatment, process adjustment, backwashing or media regeneration by an operator, are excluded from this definition.