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Welcome New NYSAPLS Members! Below is a summary of the major regulatory changes:
Thank you for joining our amazing team of professional licensees, • The continuing education requirements may be completed
technicians, students, thinkers, leaders, professors, volunteers, and via courses of learning or in live classes as determined by
all-around good people! Watch for your new member kit in the mail. the licensee, provided that the continuing education is
In addition, one of our membership committee members will be completed through a Department-approved sponsor and
contacting you by phone to welcome you. is in an acceptable subject area
Evan DiMarco, Highland, NY – Associate Member • Professional engineers, land surveyors and professional
Thomas D. Harris, Hampton Bays, NY – Associate Member geologists may now complete their continuing education
in additional subject areas, including architecture,
Carlos D. Indaburu, Nutley, NJ – Student Member landscape architecture, and interior design.
Cody J. McCrea, Gouverneur, NY – Associate Member
• Six hours of “carry over” credit may now be used from one
Ted Porter, Plymouth, ME – Corresponding Member registration period to another, within certain parameters.
Dominick T. Santini, Port Jervis, NY – Regular Member
Justin D. Smith, Pine Bush, NY – Associate Member NSCE Annual Meeting Held In-Person
Robert Van Velsor, Seymour, CT – Associate Member On March 10, 2022, Nassau-Suffolk Civil Engineers held its
Matthew D. VanHouten, Waverly, NY – Associate Member annual meeting at Palmer’s American Grille in Farmingdale,
finally in-person and with nearly 30 in attendance. Earlier in the
Congratulations New Licensees! day, the Board of Directors appointed Camille Honor, LS to fill

NYSAPLS would like to congratulate the following individual(s) a Board seat recently vacated. The Regional made a donation of
who have been granted the title of “Land Surveyor” as an official $2500 to the Shaw Fund to help the Fund continue its mission
licensee in the state of New York: of promoting land surveying education through scholarships,
lectures, seminars, research, and publications.
Joshua G. Estes 51165 Tuxedo Park, NY
Stephen D. Arthur 51166 Utica, NY The evening’s program was the NYSAPLS 2nd Showing
webinar of Dr. Paiva’s presentation on “Surveying and
Darrin R. Smith 51167 Camden, NY Description Methods: NYS Comparison with the USPLSS,”
Michael D. Yacuzzo 51168 Walworth, NY providing members with an hour of continuing education
Dustin H. James 51169 Catskill, NY credit. After the program, NSCE members re-elected Frank
Justin J. Pfeifer 51170 Taberg, NY Flanagan, LS; Frank Ferrantello, LS; Gregory Peterman, LS;
Fouad Ait Arab 51171 Parlin, NJ and Scott Gillis, LS to the Board of Directors. Officers were
also elected, Scott Gillis, LS as President; Daniel Weaver, LS
All new licensees are granted a complimentary 1-year NYSAPLS as Vice President; Joseph Pike, LS as Treasurer; and Thomas
membership and will be honored at the Awards Ceremony during the Wolpert, PE as Secretary.
NYSAPLS Annual Surveyors Conference.
All agreed, it was good to see everyone at a nearly-normal
Reminder - NYS Education Department’s Office of meeting and they look forward to more such normalcy in the
future. Stay tuned! The Regional is also planning a Summer
Profession’s Advisory Notice: Regulatory Amendments Social this year, after missing two years due to the pandemic.
approved and Effective January 1, 2022 for
Engineering, Land Surveying and Geology

The New York State Board of Regents approved regulatory
amendments in engineering, land surveying and geology that are
effective January 1, 2022. These regulatory amendments offer greater
flexibility by updating and modernizing the continuing education
requirements for professional engineers and land surveyors while
implementing continuing education requirements for professional
geologists. For a detailed view of the regulatory amendments,
see the Regulations of the Commissioner on our website at
http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/pels/part68.htm. .

Donation to Shaw Fund presented to President Robert Smith, LS
by NSCE President Scott Gillis, LS

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