North Carolina Board for Licensing of Geologists
NEWSLETTER
February 2007 • P.0. Box 41225 • Raleigh, North Carolina 27629-0399 • 919-850-9669 Fax 919-872-1598
Boards meet at DENR regions
to discuss improving applications
Quality of permit
requests reviewed
Over the last several months, representa¬
tives from the licensing boards for geologists,
engineers and land surveyors, soil scientists and
landscape architects met with the environmental
regulatory agencies in the North Carolina De¬
partment of Environment and Natural Resources
(DENR) seven regional offices.
The purpose of the visits was to better inform
the regulatory agencies of the role of the licens¬
ing boards in policing the quality of applica¬
tion submittals for environmental permits by
licensed professionals. Jim Simons, Secretary
Treasurer of the North Carolina Board for
Licensing of Geologists, and David Evans, As¬
sistant Executive Director for the North Carolina
Board of Examiners for Engineers and Survey¬
ors, attended all the meetings while various local
representatives from the other boards attended.
Board’s 2007
Meeting Dates
At its December, 2006, meeting the NC
Board for Licensing of Geologists set the fol¬
lowing meeting schedule.
In addition to the dates listed here, the Board
may call for a telephone conference call at any
time during the year. Notice of such called meet¬
ings will be sent to the Secretary of State.
January 11
1ES Solutions, Raleigh NC
April 12
Kimley Horn. Cary, NC
August 2
NC A&T University, Greensboro NC
November 1
Upton Associates, Raleigh NC
The DENR regulatory agencies have had a
chronic problem with submittal of substandard
applications, often by licensed professionals.
This leads to multiple resubmittals and permit¬
ting delays, usually resulting in frustration by
both applicants and permit reviewers.
The board representatives solicited the help
of the regulatory agency personnel in inform¬
ing the boards of unlicensed practice or grossly
inadequate professional work on applications.
It was noted by the board representatives that
DENR regulatory personnel were considered an
important source of complaints.
It u'as also noted that cooperating with the
licensing boards might improve the quality of
the work submitted. The meetings also provided
an opportunity for each board to tell a little
about the purpose and activities of that board.
The meetings appeared to be well received by
the DENR regulatory personnel.
Keep your address
current with Board
From the rules of the Geology Board, Chapter
21NCAC21 .0203
“Every individual licensee has the continuing
responsibility of keeping the Board currently
advised of the licensee’s proper and current
mailing address and the name or names under
which the licensee is practicing. Each licensee
shall immediately notify the Board of any and
all changes of association or address.”
Currently you may check the information on
your addess at the Board's web site, ncblg.org.
Also, the Board has established online
renewal of registrations. Now that this is up and
running it is possible to renew online, paying
with a credit card.
Contact the Board at ncblg@bellsouth.net for
an easy change in your address.
Chairman’s
Message
An active year
for the Board
The Board has been quite active during the
past year! You are undoubtedly aware of the
issues that we faced last Fall in our attempt to
change the format of the renewal registration
process. For a wide variety of reasons, many
of you failed to complete the registration and
renewal process in a timely fashion. The most
common complaint was that the Board failed
to adequately notify each Licensee in a timely
manner, but this was clearly not the case. The
Board and our Administrator changed the
format of the renewal notification from a letter-
style notice to a card-style notice. This format
change obviously caused some problems with
many geologists, and w;e apologize for any in¬
convenience that this change may have caused.
I am very proud of our Board for responding to
this issue in a responsible and timely manner.
We had several conference calls, proposed a
plan of action, and our Administrator did a
superb job of dealing with each individual case!
Renewal reminder
Now, 1 do not want to be too harsh in this
reminder, but it is the responsibility of each
Licensee to renew his/her license in a timely
manner! Our License expires on July Is1 of
each year (See the Rule, 21NCAC21 .0107(d)l,
and it is our (yes, Board members have to
renew' also!) responsibility to renew in a
timely fashion. The Board, however, remains
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