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ODEQ
Oklahoma Department
of Environmental Quality
Updates
You can click
on the Logo above
to go directly to their site.
Certification Examinations Being Reviewed and Updated
DEQ operation certification is reviewing
and updating all certification test.
Kara Stanley is inviting instructor in to
review the test and come up with better questions.
The American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
The American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) of 2009 requires that at least 20 percent of the funding granted for
water and wastewater be used for water efficiency, energy efficiency, green
infrastructure, or other environmentally innovative projects. The Oklahoma
Water Resources Board has committed funds for two projects: an experimental
green roof at the National Weather Center in Norman, and stabilization of
actively failing stream banks along Cow Creek near Stillwater. DEQ has
committed $6.3 million dollars from ARRA to fund automated meter reading (AMR)
projects in Duncan, Enid, Sand Springs, and Stillwater. AMR systems
provide benefits for utilities, retail providers and customers, including:
increased efficiencies, outage detection, tamper notification, reduced labor
cost, improved billing and more flexible billing cycles, accurate meter reading
- no more estimates, improved security for premises, energy management, and less
financial burden correcting mistakes. (taken from the ODEQ Publication
"The Main Event" Dec 2009 Issue.)
Click
Here to view the ODEQ SDWIS Page. It is also located on our "Links"
Page.
New Contact Names and
Numbers
Newsletters
Kristi Roy
(405) 702-8144
Enforcement
Angie Ratcliff
(405) 702-8146
Training/Interactive TV
Mark Kurklin
(405) 702-8148
Exams & Application Approvals
Kara DuBois
(405) 702-8150
Forms/Study Guides/General Info.
Debbie Segroves
(405) 702-8173
ODEQ Fact Sheets
ODEQ
has quite a few "Fact Sheets" on quite a range of topics regarding water.
A few of the Fact Sheets include topics on Private Water Wells,
Cryptosporidium, Blue Green Algae, Water System security, and many others.
Check
them out at:
http://www.deq.state.ok.us/factsheets/
New Additions to the ODEQ Web Site
Click Here
for further information on:
CROMERR
CROMERR.net is an
informational and networking site provided by the Oklahoma Department of
Environmental Quality (ODEQ) and Premirus Corporation to assist other
organizations that are subject to CROMERR Requirements in their compliance
efforts. ODEQ and its contractor, Premirus, have worked through the CROMERR
application process with the US EPA and have received approval by the EPA.
Oklahoma expects to be fully compliant and fully operational on its CROMERR
portal in early 2009.
This site has been
set up to provide other organizations with access to the Oklahoma application
to the EPA and describe Oklahoma’s approach to CROMERR. In the near future, a
working prototype version of the portal will be added to this site, along with
a general discussion group to allow organizations subject to CROMERR to
discuss solutions and approaches to CROMERR compliance.
CROMERR, an acronym
for the phrase “Cross Media Electronic Reporting Rule,” was adopted by the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2005, for the purpose of providing a
unified legal framework for electronic reporting under all of EPA's
environmental regulations. CROMERR specifies the requirements for states,
tribes and local governments that operated delegated programs to accept
electronic reporting, including electronic signatures, from regulated
facilities under most environmental regulations. Once a system is put in place
that satisfies the requirements of CROMERR, regulated facilities can file
electronic reports instead of paper reports, reducing the amount of paper
created and transferred, and thereby reducing the cost of reporting and
compliance monitoring for both the facilities and the agency operating the
delegated program.
ERS: The
Oklahoma CROMERR Portal
The Oklahoma approach to CROMERR compliance is encompassed in the Oklahoma
Electronic Reporting System (ERS), a single portal for all document submission
for both state and federal programs. The portal recognizes varying
requirements for submission, and controls the submission of documents to
ensure that the requirements for submission of documents complies with the
level of verification required by the type of document submitted.
Representatives of regulated entities, usually referred to as signatories,
navigate to the portal, sign in, answer questions that validate their
identity, and submit digitally signed documents to the system. These documents
are then validated, stored, and routed to the appropriate authority within the
agency for acceptance or rejection. This portal can also deliver human
readable format (HRF) copies of documents and can create and deliver
internally signed documents that can then be validated as having been
generated by the regulating entity.
The Oklahoma approach
uses Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital signatures, and secure encrypted
transmission to accept and validate submissions. ERS is implemented as a web
portal gateway to the agency’s Edoctus™ Document Management System, with
digital signature verification, document archival and retention, issuance of
new digital signature certificates and all other operational processes
implemented as business rules within the rules engine of Edoctus.
For more
information on the Oklahoma CROMERR project contact Tom Copeland at the
Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. Tom's email address is
tom.copeland@deq.ok.gov
ODEQ Exam Application
Updates
ODEQ requires the Exam Applications to be
turned in a MINIMUM OF THREE (3) WEEKS before
the exam date (written and / or on-line),
they mean three weeks before, or sooner. For instance, if your on-line exam is
on a Thursday, the exam application is due at least three Thursdays before the
test date and not on that Friday.
They are now allowing for exam
applications to be faxed,
if they are being paid with a PO # or Credit
Card. But, if you are paying with a check,
cash, etc. then it has to be mailed in.
ODEQ Operator Search
ODEQ Operator Search is now on the ODEQ
Web Site to where anyone can go there to find the status of any ODEQ Licensed
Operator. If you want to check on your own status or have a new hire or current
employed operator who you need to check on or verify their current status, this
is the place to do it.
We have a linked to it on the OWPCA Web
Page under the
"LINKS" page.
Operator Certification
Fees Have Increased
Effective July 1, 2009, fees for operator certification
licensure are as follows:
- Exam Application fee $62
- Temporary Application fee $62
- Non-Certified Helper Application fee $23
- Renewal fee $46
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