Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals
 
chapter
Board for Waterworks and Wastewater Works Operators and Onsite Sewage System Professionals Regulations [18 VAC 160 ‑ 20]
Action Amend regulations to license onsite sewage system professionals.
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 3/6/2009
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3/6/09  2:08 pm
Commenter: Dominick Gibino, Consultant

Please Clarify What You Propose and Why in Plain English
 

The proposed regulations are very confusing and not clear.  A separate document explaining the process and regulations would help immensely.

What specific problems are being solved?

What are the regulations supposed to accomplish?

Is there a written list of objectives for the proposed regulations?

A clear list of objectives, traceable to each of the detailed proposed regulatory changes, would go a long way toward guiding the content of the proposed regulations.

A written summary of the resulting proposed changes would also greatly benefit communication and lessen confusion.

Diving into the authoring of regulatory detail without a roadmap of detailed objectives is similar to putting together a puzzle without seeing a picture of the puzzle beforehand--no one knows where you are going or why--including yourself.  My impression is that the proposed changes are a confusing, burdensome solution desperately in search of a problem.

CommentID: 6901