I recommend the board add these definitions to the regulations:

"Contact Hour" means one hour of instruction as approved by the Board or a university for improving knowledge, skills, and abilities of a particular regulant's activity in his associated profession or professions.

"Operator in Training (OIT)" means the license issued by the Board to an individual prior to the completion of the experience requirements for that level of certification.

"Onsite Soil Evaluator in Training (OSE-IT)" means the license issued by the Board to an individual prior to completion of the experience requirements for that level of certification.

"Operator in Responsible Charge (ORC)" means the individual designated by a person, firm, or corporation (municipal or private) owning or having control of a waterworks or wastewater works system as the operator of record and who has primary responsibility for the operation of such system as defined in G.S. 90A-46.

"Temporary operator license" means a license issued to a home owner for a residential wastewater works, without examination and following prescribed training from the manufacturer and designer of the wastewater works, when the Board finds that the supply of certified operators, or persons with the training and experience necessary for certification, is inadequate, or the cost to provide such service will exceed $1,000 per year.