(a) Applicants shall complete the Qualifying Experience Record on Application Form A and provide supplemental information to demonstrate the dates qualifying experience began and ended.
(b) The experience record shall be written by the applicant, shall clearly describe the geoscience work that the applicant personally performed in each setting, and shall delineate the role of the applicant in any group geoscience activity.
(c) The experience record should provide an overall description of the nature and scope of the work with emphasis on detailed descriptions of the geoscience work personally performed by the applicant to cover at least the minimum amount of time needed by the applicant for issuance of a license.
(d) The experience record shall be written in sufficient detail to allow the Board staff to document the minimum amount of experience required.
(e) The experience record must demonstrate evidence of the applicant's competency to be placed in responsible charge of geoscience services of a similar character.
(f) Experience is qualifying if the applicant's duties and responsibilities included the performance of geoscience tasks or is acceptable to the TBPG. TBPG may accept research in or the teaching of a discipline of geoscience at the college or university level as qualifying work experience if the research or teaching, in the judgment of the TBPG, is comparable to work experience obtained in the practice of geoscience.
(g) The Executive Director may require an applicant to provide additional information to adequately verify the applicant's experience.
(h) Waiver of the Required Qualifying Work Experience. The Appointed Board has determined that the qualifying work experience required by statute for licensure is a necessary requirement that should not be waived. The Appointed Board does not offer waiver of this requirement for licensure.

Source Note: The provisions of this §851.23 adopted to be effective December 15, 2010, 35 TexReg 10695; amended to be effective December 11, 2014, 39 TexReg 9539; amended to be effective March 15, 2016, 41 TexReg 1843; amended to be effective September 25, 2017, 42 TexReg 5143; amended to be effective October 31, 2018, 43 TexReg 7140; amended to be effective October 28, 2019, 44 TexReg 6374