57 It continued, "The (registration board) acts independently in 19 states, with power to issue, suspend and revoke. The department or board of health, acting on the sanitarian board's recommendation is responsible for (registering) in the remaining states. In 12 states, temporary Licenses (registrations) are issued to those who do not have the experience required. Twenty states have a minimum educational qualification of a bachelor's degree, with 15 to 30 semester units of basic science or a major in environmental health sciences; 17 also require some experience.'' Four states required at least one or two years of college in 1968. Of those, three had an additional experience requirement. Five states did not have a minimum educa tion requirement but required from two to 10 years experience, for which education could be substituted. Education was not a substitute for experience in 12 states. Written examinations were required in all states with acts; fees ranged from $10 to $25. Renewal fees in 27 states ranged from $2 to $20. Fees for reciprocity or endorse ment, available in 21 states, were from $4 to $25. Annual renewal was required in 26 states and biennial in one. No renewal requirement appeared in two states. The role ofNAS in the national registration picture was spelled out by R.W. Brown, chairman of theNAS Registration Committee, in theNovember/December 1968 Jour nal ofEnvironmental Health. Nine points explained the Association's "parental" role in promoting state registration programs with nationwide uniformity. At theNAS Annual Meeting in 1969, aNational Registration Council was chartered by the Board of Directors. The Council, which replaced the Registration Committee, was given the authority to promulgate and establish rules and regulations pertaining to the functions, related records and correspondence of Registration. In addition, it was to render advice and counsel to state associations related to the development and evaluation of registration acts and to publish official reports and pertinent information. Members were to be sanitarians who were active board members of a statutory agency who would be appointed by the Council, approved by the Board of Directors, and serve for three years. In 1972, a committee ofNEHA members (Dr. Monroe Morgan, Verne C. Reierson, Larry Gordon, Harry Steigman,Nicholas Pohlit and Franklin Fiske, consultant to PES) was invited by the Professional Examination Service to review the 200 question pro fessional examination. Approximately 25 percent of the questions were deleted and many new subject areas added to bring the exam up to date. More attention was given to such areas as land use, planning and zoning, population, energy, resources, environmen tal safety, and liquid waste disposal. The weight of each of the subject areas was reevaluated. At that time, it was decided that the Registration Council would contact state registra tion boards and request a review of exam procedures with an eye to updating registration acts in the states and developing reciprocity among states. By the fall of 1973, 35 state registration acts had been enacted, and the Journal of Environmental Health published a summary of requirements compiled by Martin A. Winston, a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. That summary indicated many variations among the state acts. Nine states did not require a bachelor's degree, nine states did not offer registration by reciprocity, and eleven states exercised a high degree of discretion in offering reciprocity.
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