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(A) may include one or more paid or unpaid members
of camp staff or management; law enforcement officers; security per-
sonnel; lifeguards or other responsible staff at any off-site facility; or
parents or other adults;
(B) must be charged with responsibility to monitor,
oversee, or supervise the person on behalf of the licensee or camp
management; and
(C) must have the ability and means to summon com-
petent assistance at all times while remaining within sight and hearing
distance of the supervised person.
(2) A person who is prohibited from having unsupervised
contact with campers must be supervised at all times during which
that person has or might have any contact with one or more campers,
whether intentional or unintentional, and whether part of scheduled
camp activities or not. The potential for contact with campers by a
person is presumed at all times during which one or more campers are
present at the facility at which the person is present unless there is an
impassable barrier between them.
(k) [j)] Records retention. All applications, background
check reports, training documentation, and other required personnel
documentation required by this subchapter [these rules] shall be
maintained in hard copy or electronic format for a minimum of two
years following a person's last day of service.
265.13. Site and Physical Facilities.
(a) - (j) (No change.)
(k) Hand cleanser required. Each lavatory shall be equipped
with one of the following methods to sanitize hands:
(1) - (2) (No change.)
(3) [privies and] portable toilet facilities not equipped with
lavatories providing water shall have waterless hand sanitizer available
at all times.
(1) - (m) (No change.)
1(n Constru.ctio of prices .Prae.. ifv oe shall be on-
structed according to standards et forth in the Texas Community Sani-
tation ,nd .which may be obtained from the t beall-
ing the Environmental Health rop Po Standards and Quality
Assurance Unit at 512-834-6773. Privies shall be maintained in a man-
ner to prevent access by flies and anim-ats to prevent fly bri and
to prevet contamination of any water ...,,
(n) [(e)] Availability of toilet tissue. Toilet tissue shall be
available at all times for each toilet [er privy seat].
t() [(p)] Lighting and ventilation in toilet and bathing facili-
ties. All permanent toilets and bathing structures shall be adequately
ventilated and properly lighted.
(p) [(q)] Public water supply. If a youth camp water supply
meets the definition of a public water system, then all water used for
human consumption or which may be used in the preparation of foods
or beverages or for the cleaning of any utensil or article used in the
course of preparation or consumption of food or beverages for human
beings, or which is used for bathing, swimming in a pool or spa, or any
other use in which incidental ingestion may occur, shall come from a
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) approved drink-
ing water source that meets all applicable standards of 30 TAC Chapter
290, Subchapter D (relating to Rules and Regulations for Public Water
Systems) and Subchapter F (relating to Drinking Water Standards Gov-
erning Drinking Water Quality And Reporting Requirements for Public
Water Systems), as amended. [30 Texas Administrative Gode (-TAG)
Chapter 29f Ptuble Drinking Wate Skehapter J Rulest, and Regu-nations for Publi Water Systems, as aende and 3 TAG hapter
290- btlie Drinking W waterr Subtehapter Drinking Water Standards
Governing Drinking Water Quality And Repo ing R eq irements For
Public Water Systems, as amended].
(q) [(r)] Private water supply. Youth camps having water sup-
plies that do not meet the definition of a public water system or that are
not regulated by the TCEQ shall comply with the following require-
ments when the camp is open or operational unless otherwise indicated.
(1) Water supply. An adequate supply of water shall be
available at all times in each camp in accordance with the following
table.
Figure: 25 TAC 265.13(q)(1)
[Figure: 2 TAG 265.13(r)(1)
(2) Water pressure. The system shall be designed to main-
tain a minimum pressure of 35 pounds per square inch (psi) at all points
within the distribution network at flow rates of at least 1.5 gallons per
minute per connection. When the system is intended to provide fire
fighting capability, it shall also be designed to maintain a minimum
pressure of 20 psi under combined fire and drinking water flow condi-
tions. Minimum distribution pressure shall not be less than 20 psi at
any time.
(3) Bacteriological properties.
(A) Water systems serving camps shall submit a mini-
mum of one water sample for testing for total coliform, fecal coliform,
E. coli, or other fecal indicator organisms, for the month prior to camp
opening and each month the camp is in operation.
(B) Testing for microbial contaminants shall be per-
formed at a laboratory certified by TCEQ.
(C) If a routine distribution coliform sample is
coliform-positive, then the camp shall issue a written boil water notifi-
cation to all camp staff and volunteers. The notification shall state, "To
ensure destruction of all harmful bacteria and other microbes, water
for drinking, cooking, and ice making shall be boiled and cooled prior
to consumption. The water shall be brought to a vigorous rolling boil
and then boiled for two minutes. In lieu of boiling, purchased bottled
water, water obtained from some other suitable source, or ice obtained
from an approved source may be used."
(D) The boil water notification shall remain in effect un-
til a repeat distribution coliform sample is coliform-negative.
(E) Records of all bacteriological tests and of any boil
water notification shall be kept on site.
(4) Chemical properties.
(A) Camps shall submit a water sample obtained from
the entry point to the distribution system to a laboratory for chemical
analysis at least once every three years.
(B) The chemical analysis shall be for secondary con-
stituent levels.
(C) Maximum secondary constituent levels are as de-
scribed in the following table.
Figure: 25 TAC 265.13(q)(4)(C)
[Figure 25 TAG 265.1 ( r)( 4 (- )]
(D) Records of all chemical testing shall be kept on site.
(5) Minimum residual disinfectant concentrations and
maximum residual disinfectant levels (MRDLs).
(A) The minimum residual disinfectant concentration
in the water entering the distribution system and the water within the38 TexReg 5686 August 30, 2013 Texas Register
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