FREE, NO COST (except travel & lodging) Training Offered . EPA Environmental. State, County, City, Township, and Federal Employees.

Keep in mind that all incidents and disasters are local until federal response or other coordinating entity arrives on scene. Have someone familiar in your local office at the State, County, City, township familiar with environmental Superfund process for the protection of your community.  Don’t wait until the event occurs, get ahead of the curve. BEMA International

** Attendees must be Federal, Tribal, State or Local agency employees. 

   

     Contractors, private industry and academia are not permitted to attend

    either course.  Travel/lodging costs are the responsibility of the student or

    student’s employer. **

Oil Response Training - Combined Backwater and Fast Water Hosted by Environmental Response Training Program (ERTP) ERT – OSRTI Portsmouth, NH April 16, 2018 - April 19, 2018 Registration:  https://trainex.org/offeringslist.cfm?courseid=360 Password:  cosmo1 This course is custom designed to meet requests of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Federal On-Scene-Coordinators (FOSCs) in their regions. The course may be from 2 days to 5 days in length dependent on request and agenda development. The course may contain any of the course content and field work found in the Slow, Backwater Practical Course or Fast Water Practical Courses listed in their course descriptions. Dependent upon selection of course work participants will deploy boom on lakes or rivers; establish oil recovery sites; provide protection to sensitive areas and shoreline with boom; operate boats on lakes or rivers; install dikes, dams and filter fences on streams; and install French drains and cut-off walls. Instructional methods will include classroom instruction and field work.

Introduction to Risk Assessment Guidance With Expanded Eco-Risk Hosted by Environmental Response Training Program (ERTP) ERT – OSRTI Augusta, ME  May 15, 2018 - May 18, 2018  Registration:  https://trainex.org/classdetails.cfm?courseid=1561&classid=7759 This 3.5-day course provides participants with the fundamentals of risk assessment as applied to the Superfund cleanup process. This course is designed to present an introduction to the Superfund risk assessment process to Project Managers, On-Scene Coordinators, Risk Assessment Reviewers, and potentially new Risk Assessors working at hazardous waste sites or treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. The course assumes little experience with toxicology and risk assessment or knowledge regarding Superfund risk assessment guidance.

Waste Treatment, Transportation, and Disposal Hosted by U.S. EPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation Boston, MA June 6, 2018 - June 7, 2018 Registration:  https://trainex.org/classdetails.cfm?courseid=46&classid=7763 Waste Treatment, Transportation and Disposal, a 2-day advanced training course, focuses on specific technical and regulatory issues that On Scene Coordinators (OSC) and Remedial Project Managers (RPM) must address when treating, transporting and disposing of waste.