Four years of full-time experience as a conventional onsite soil evaluator licensee.

Recommend changing to: Four years of full-time experience as either an interim onsite soil evaluator or as a conventional onsite soil evaluator licensee.

Per 18VAC160-20-82, VDH personnel certificated as Authorized Onsite Soil Evaluator’s will become interim onsite soil evaluators on July 1, 2009.  Some Authorized Onsite Soil Evaluator’s are independent businesses and may not have the opportunity to work with licensed alternative onsite soil evaluators or regularly design alternative systems.  This would require them to immediately apply for a conventional onsite soil evaluator’s license and then wait four years prior to applying for an alternative onsite soil evaluator license.