1. (a)

   1. (1) Applicants for licensing shall have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma or GED.
   2. (2) On a case-by-case basis, the Drinking Water Advisory and Operator Licensing Committee may determine that an applicant's experience or relevant training can be substituted for the requisite high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma.
   3. (3) Any training or experience used for such substitution shall not be used to meet the minimum experience requirement.
2. (b) The mandatory minimum training requirements that must be met for each license grade and license type are contained in Table 2.

3. (c)

   1. (1) Applicants for licensure must meet the minimum mandatory training requirements prior to sitting for the license exam.
   2. (2) It is the responsibility of the applicant to meet the mandatory training prior to sitting for an exam.
   3. (3) Failure to meet the training requirements for the license exam grade and type taken will result in the invalidation of the license exam and forfeiture of the exam fee.
4. (d) The committee, after determining that a required training course is not, and has not been, reasonably available in a geographical area of the state, may waive the mandatory training requirement for that course and area, for a specified period of time.

5. (e)

   1. (1) All operators sitting for an exam after January 1, 2003, must meet the required training.
   2. (2) Equivalent training attended prior to this date may be substituted for the required training requirements.
6. (f) Operators upgrading a license in good standing will be considered to have the training required for the license held.

7. (g) Education substitution for post-secondary degrees will be as follows:

   1. (1) Bachelor or Associate of Science or Applied Science Degree in an applicable physical science may be substituted for all the minimum training requirements except the:

      1. (A) Rules Course; and
      2. (B) Course required for the specific license examination to be taken;
   2. (2) A Bachelor or Associate of Applied Science in Water and Wastewater Technology may be substituted for the entire minimum training requirements except the Rules Course; and
   3. (3) Post-secondary degrees used to meet education requirements cannot also be used to meet the experience requirement.

      TRAINING HOUR REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSE EXAMS
      Course Name	Length	D-SS	D-1	D-2	D-3	D-4	T-1	T-2	T-3	T-4
      PWS Rules and SDWA Compliance	8 hr	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
      Basic Water Works Math	8 hr.	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
      Applied Water Works Math	8 hr.			X	X	X		X	X	X
      Distribution Basic	24 hr.	X	X	X	X	X
      Distribution Intermediate	24 hr.			X	X	X
      Distribution Advanced	24 hr.					X
      Treatment Basic	24 hr.						X	X	X	X
      Treatment Intermediate	24 hr.							X	X	X
      Treatment Advanced	24 hr.								X	X
      	Tot. hrs.	40	40	72	72	96	40	72	96	96

      Table 2

Codification Notes: "GED" means general educational development test.