4. Any positions authorized and allocated subject to the personnel laws to the former Board of Licensure of Water Treatment Plant Operators are transferred to the Board of Licensure of Water System Operators and may continue to be authorized.

5. All records, property and equipment previously belonging to or allocated for the use of the former Board of Licensure of Water Treatment Plant Operators become, on the effective date of this Act, part of the property of the Board of Licensure of Water System Operators.

6. All existing forms, licenses, letterheads and similar items bearing the name of or referring to the Board of Licensure of Water Treatment Plant Operators may be utilized by the Board of Licensure of Water System Operators until existing supplies of those items are exhausted.

7. That person appointed to the Board of Licensure of Water System Operators who represents a very small water system shall serve the balance of the term of the former member who represented consumers of public water systems. Thereafter, the term of the representative of a very small water system is subject to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 2624- A, subsection 2.

SUMMARY

This bill renames the Board of Licensure of Water Treatment Plant Operators as the Board of Licensure of Water System Operators and changes the membership of the board to require a representative of a "very small water system," as that term is defined in rules of the board. The bill also makes other changes to clarify that the board has licensing and regulatory powers over water distribution system operators as well as water treatment system operators.