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County health staff seek support for statewide on-site wastewater licensing; commissioners table proposal for two weeks

2627518 · January 13, 2025
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Grand Forks County public-health staff asked the commission to support standardizing on-site wastewater installer licensing and training statewide; commissioners asked for more information and voted to table the matter for two weeks.

Grand Forks County environmental-health staff presented a legislative priority on Jan. 7 asking the commission to support a statewide standard for licensing, training and oversight of on-site wastewater (septic) system installers.

Jason (Jay) Anderson, the county’s environmental-health supervisor, briefed commissioners on past statewide efforts to standardize on-site rules and said prior bills proposing installer certification and uniform oversight (referenced in discussion as 2022–2023 efforts) had failed in earlier legislative sessions. Anderson and staff…

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