DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Board of Professional GeologistsRULE NO: RULE TITLE
61G16-5.004: Application EvaluationsNOTICE OF CHANGE
Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 33, No. 11, March 16, 2007 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.
The change is in response to concerns of by the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee in letters dated April 4, 2007, May 23, 2007, and June 25, 2007. The changes are as follows:
The rule shall read as:
(Substantial Rewrite).
61G16-5.004 Application Evaluations.
(3) In addition, the Board has determined that an applicant is required to have at least seven (7) years of professional geological work experience.
(a) Geological experience obtained prior to meeting the educational requirements in section 2, above, is usually of a subprofessional nature. Such experience, if professional in nature and independently verified by documentation provided by the applicant shall be awarded experience credit at 25% of the actual time spent. If the experience is obtained after the completion of 15 semester hours of geological courses, experience credit shall be awarded at up to 50% of actual time spent. In no event shall the total geological experience credit allowable prior to meeting the educational requirements in subsection (2) above, exceed 12 months.
(b) Experience must be progressive on geologic projects to indicate that it is of increasing quality and requiring greater responsibility.
(c) Two (2) years of experience are credited from the completion of the course work described in subsections (2) above, and
(d) the other five(5) years of experience should constitute the application of the geologic education previously obtained.
(e) Experience should be gained under the supervision of a Professional Geologist, Professional Engineer qualified by education and experience to do the work being supervised, or “qualified geologist” as that term is defined in Section 492.102(5), Florida Statutes.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Rick Morrison, Executive Director, Board of Professional Geologists, 1940 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0764
