                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTIFICATION OF SEWAGE SLUDGE LAND APPLICATORS (§ 62.1-44.19:3.1)

A. The Board, with the assistance of the Department of Health, and the
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation shall adopt regulations
and standards for training, testing, and certification of persons land applying
Class B sewage sludge in the Commonwealth, and for revoking, suspending, or
denying such certification from any person for cause. The regulations shall
include standards and criteria for the approval of programs of instruction
taught by governmental entities and by the private sector for the purpose of
certifying sewage sludge land applicators. The Board shall promulgate the
regulations and standards required by this subsection no later than July 1,
2008.

B. No person shall land apply Class B sewage sludge pursuant to a permit under
&#xA7; 62.1-44.19:3 unless a certified sewage sludge land applicator is onsite
at all times during such land application, as of 180 days following the
effective date of regulations required by this section.

HISTORY: 2007, cc. 881, 929.