Does My Business Need a Certified Water Pollution Control Operator?
If your business operates a wastewater treatment or pretreatment works
for which a permit is required by 35 Ill. Adm. Code 309 (e.g. National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), Construction, Operating,
or Joint Construction and Operating Permit), at least one person on your
operational staff must be certified by the Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency as competent as a wastewater treatment works operator. The operation
of the wastewater treatment works must be under the direct supervision
of a properly certified wastewater treatment works operator. A wastewater
treatment works includes those constructions or devices used for treating,
or disposing of wastewater or for the recovery of byproducts from such
wastewater.
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