Environmental health specialist trainee: Qualification to practice; application for provisional registration; credit for work experience.

1. To engage in the practice of environmental health as an environmental health specialist trainee pursuant to NRS 625A.115 , a person: (a) Must be employed in a position in which he or she receives training in environmental health as a part of a training program which has been approved by the Board and in which the person engages in the practice of environmental health under the direct supervision of one or more other persons who hold active and valid standard registrations as environmental health specialists issued by the Board pursuant to NRS 625A.110 ; and (b) Must submit to the Board, not later than 30 days after the date on which the person initially becomes employed in a position described in paragraph (a): (1) An application for a provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee on a form prescribed by the Board; (2) The application fee for a provisional registration prescribed by NAC 625A.069 ; and (3) The registration fee for a provisional registration prescribed by NAC 625A.069 . 2. In addition to the requirements set forth in subsection 1, unless an applicant meets the requirements set forth in paragraph (d) of subsection 1 of NRS 625A.110 , an applicant for a provisional registration must: (a) Attach to his or her application, in a sealed envelope, his or her official transcript from an accredited institution of higher education approved by the Board; or (b) Request that the accredited institution of higher education transmit the transcript directly to the Board. 3. The Board may grant an applicant for provisional registration as an environmental health specialist trainee credit towards the 2 years of experience in the practice of environmental health required to register as an environmental health specialist pursuant to NRS 625A.110 for any work experience in the field of environmental health obtained by the applicant: (a) Before beginning a training program; or (b) During an initial period of training if a provisional registration is reinstated by the Board. REVISER’S NOTE. The regulation of the Board of Environmental Health Specialists filed with the Secretary of State on June 8, 2020 (LCB File No. R075-19), which amended this section to remove provisions governing the approval of a training program by the Board and adding such approval to a new section [ NAC 625A.0132 ], contains the following provision not included in NAC: “Sec. 34. An environmental health specialist trainee who is employed as part of a training program that was approved by the Board pursuant to NAC 625A.013 , as that section existed before the effective date of this regulation [June 8, 2020], shall be deemed to be employed as part of a training program that is approved by the Board pursuant to section 4 of this regulation [ NAC 625A.0132 ].”