PURPOSE: This rule sets forth the drinking water operator certification fee structure for activities under 10 CSR 60. The proposed rule was developed by a drinking water stakeholder group.

1. (1) All applications for drinking water operator certification must meet the requirements of 10 CSR 60-14.020. The following fees shall be assessed for drinking water operator certification beginning January 1, 2022:

   1. (A) The application fee for the certification examination is fifty dollars ($50). Each retake of the exam is fifty dollars ($50);
   2. (B) The application fee for certification by reciprocity is seventy-five dollars ($75);
   3. (C) The fee to renew each certificate is sixty dollars ($60). Certificates must be renewed every three (3) years; and
   4. (D) A late fee of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50) per month, up to a total of seventy-five dollars ($75), is assessed for any certificate renewed after the expiration date.
2. (2) All certification and examination fees submitted are nonrefundable and nontransferable.

AUTHORITY: section 640.100, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed July 10, 2020, effective Jan. 1, 2022.

*Original authority: 640.100, RSMo 1939, amended 1978, 1981, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2006, 2012, 2014.