18VAC160-20-96 B. 2c. Section c. should be changed to read “c. Four years of full time experience as a conventional onsite soil evaluator or authorized onsite soil evaluator licensee.” Experience as an OSE will not be substantially different from past experience as an AOSE. Therefore it seems meaningless to require an AOSE with 20+ years of onsite experience to work another 4 years as a conventional OSE in order to be an alternative OSE. Many AOSE’s work in areas or situations where they rarely do alternative designs and would have difficulty producing 12 alternative system permits. Experience as an AOSE should be treated as equivalent to OSE experience.