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Page 7 of 11 <br />The Department shall submit request for reimbursement for nurse training to the <br />Office of Public Health Nursing. Form 3300 -Public Health Nurse Training Activity <br />must be used as the invoice for payment. <br />5. The Department shall submit on an annual basis Staff Time Activity Report, 3389, <br />Environmental Health Report, 3738, and Food and Lodging Report, 3888. The reports <br />shall accompany the final expenditure report and must be received by the State within 45 <br />days after the end of the contract period. <br />D. PERSONNEL POLICIES <br />The Department shall adhere to and fully comply with State personnel policies as found in <br />North Carolina General Statute, Chapter 126, and 1 NCAC 8. Such policies include, but <br />are not limited to, the following: <br />1. Equal employment opportunity; <br />2. Affirmative action; <br />3. Policies for local government employment subject to the State Personnel Act; <br />4. "Local Classification and Salary Range"; <br />5. "Compensation Policy for Local Competitive Services Employees"; and <br />6. "Recruitment and Selection Policy and Procedures"; <br />7. Environmental Health Specialists employed by the Department shall be delegated <br />authority by the State to administer and enforce State environmental health rules <br />and laws as directed by the State pursuant to G.S. 130A-4(b). This delegation <br />shall be done according to 15A NCAC 18A .2300. <br />a. Local health departments are responsible for sending their newly- <br />employed environmental health specialists (interns) to 33 days (6.5 weeks) <br />of initial field training/orientation at the training center within 180 days from <br />date of employment. <br />b. An-angements for initial field training/orientation for newly-employed <br />environmental health specialists will be handled by the Education and <br />Training Staff, Division of Environmental Health. <br />c. A local health department which is contracting with an environmental <br />health specialist employed by another department shall be responsible for <br />assuring that all original documents, correspondence, and other public <br />records be maintained in the health department using the contractor and <br />the contract shall stipulate that the contractor shall be available for <br />consultation to the public being served. <br />8. The Department shall comply with Minimum Standard Health Department Staffing <br />15A NCAC Section .0301(c), and shall assure that all nursing staff who provide <br />public health services funded by this contract comply with this rule. <br />