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
Onsite Sewage System Professionals Licensing Regulations [18 VAC 160 ‑ 40]
Action General Review 2014
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 2/12/2016
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1/25/16  1:46 pm
Commenter: James Slusser

Regulations fail to address misleading practices by practicioners
 

 


How does the Board effectively promulgate regulations which such obvious conflicting interests?  

It appears as if the unintended consequences of placing all three professions under the WWWOOSP Board is now obvious.  Onsite Designers have a higher threshhold of training and bodies of knowledge required to perform the duties of a licensed professional than operators and installers.  Keeping soil evaluators under this board only further mandates the "indentured servitude" we endure. 

Soil evaluators serve the same function as Professonal Engineers do in providing designs to the public.  Responsibilities extend well beyond soil evaluation phase of the projects.  Design requires skills that include work as being incidental to include the areas of professional practice. 

Utilizing actual documents from other licensed professionals blurs the line between "relying on information" and violating copyright laws.  This are of expertise must be addressed to comply with existing statutory law. 

 

 

 

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