Section 712.05. Sampling and field work requirements.

 

(1)   General. All sampling, field work and development of plans for field activities for response actions being taken to satisfy the requirements of ss. NR 708.09 to 708.15 or chs. NR 716 to 754 shall be conducted by or under the supervision of a professional engineer, hydrogeologist or scientist, unless sub. (2) or an exemption in s. NR 712.11 is applicable.

(2)   Sampling for immediate and interim actions not involving treatment or engineering controls. For immediate actions and interim actions that do not involve treatment or engineering controls, samples of air, soil, water or other media for field measurement or analytical laboratory analysis are not required to be collected under the supervision of a professional engineer, hydrogeologist or scientist, but shall be collected by one of the following, unless the sampling is exempt under s. NR 712.11 (2) :

(a) A graduate of a vocational or technical school with course work in science or engineering who has 40 hours of supervised field experience; or

(b) Any person who has all of the following:

1. 40 hours of training in collecting, preserving, filtering and transporting environmental samples and decontaminating sampling equipment that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (a) .

2. 80 hours of supervised field experience that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (a) .

3. A letter or certificate that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (b) .

(3)   Sampling for interim actions involving treatment or engineering controls and remedial actions. For remedial actions and interim actions that involve treatment or engineering controls, samples of air, soil, water or other media for field measurements or analytical laboratory analysis shall be collected by a professional engineer, hydrogeologist, scientist or any one of the following working under the supervision of a professional engineer, hydrogeologist or scientist, unless the sampling is exempt under s. NR 712.11 (2) :

(a) A graduate of a vocational or technical school with course work in science or engineering who has 40 hours of supervised field experience; or

(b) Any other person who has all of the following:

1. 40 hours of training in collecting, preserving, filtering and transporting environmental samples and decontaminating sampling equipment that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (a) .

2. 80 hours of supervised field experience that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (a) .

3. A letter or certificate that meets the requirements of sub. (4) (b) .

(4)   Training and experience.

(a) Training and supervised field experience required by subs. (2) and (3) shall include sampling methods for all media that a person is expected to sample in the course of his or her employment.

(b) A letter or certificate documenting the supervised field experience and training shall be signed and dated by the person conducting the training. The person conducting the training must meet the qualifications specified in sub. (2) . The letter or certificate shall be kept on file with the employer. Documentation of supervised field experience and training shall be provided to the department upon request.

(5)   Soil boring logs.

(a) The written descriptions of soil and rock on soil boring logs shall be prepared by a graduate of an accredited institution of higher education with a major in an appropriate science or engineering specialty. This person shall have acquired, through education and actual field experience, the ability to direct the drilling of borings, classify geologic samples and evaluate and interpret geologic and hydrogeologic data. The following academic disciplines are considered appropriate science specialties for preparers of soil boring logs: earth sciences, geochemistry, geology, geophysics, hydrogeology and soil science. The following engineering majors are considered appropriate engineering specialties for preparers of soil boring logs: environmental, civil, geological, geotechnical, mining, mineral, petroleum, agricultural and geophysical.

(b) The logs shall be developed in accordance with the requirements of ch. NR 141 and shall be signed by the person that developed the written description in the boring logs of the soil and rock.

History: Cr. Register, April, 1994, No. 460 , eff. 5-1-95; CR 12-023 : am. (1) Register October 2013 No. 694 , eff. 11-1-13.