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* Effective April 1, 2009, an additional 10% convenience fee will be applied to all credit card payments.

EPA's RRP RULE

In an effort to try to address some of the confusion about EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule, we are providing the following. The following information is not being offered as an interpretation of any State or federal regulation, rule, law, and/or statute, but is being provided as an explanation of how we understand the RRP Rule. You must always contact EPA and/or the appropriate State agencies with your questions regarding their interpretation of their own regulations, rules, laws, and/or statutes:

The RRP Rule pertains to all work involving the disturbance of lead-based paint (LBP) that is being provided for Target Housing (basically all pre-1978 residential houses & apartments) and Child-Occupied Facilities (basically all Pre-Schools, Daycares and Kindergartens).

HUD regulations (Lead Safe Housing Rule [LSHR] published on 9/15/99) pertains to all federally owned and federally assisted properties (such as, Section 8, NSP, Weatherization, CDBG, HOME, VA, USDA, etc.).

EPA regulations (Renovation, Repair, and Painting [RRP] Rule published on 4/22/08) pertains to all work in Target Housing and Child-Occupied facilities which are not federally owned or federally assisted.

If someone has received only the HUD Lead-Safe Work Practices (LSWP) training, they must now also receive the RRP Training. If someone received HUD’s LSWP training or EPA’s RRP training (collectively hereafter referred to as LSWP training) from a Company before that Company was accredited by EPA and/or a State to provide the accredited LSWP Training, or, if someone received the LSWP training before EPA's new RRP training curriculum came out in February of 2009, then the LSWP training they received is no longer valid and they are now required to take the full 8-hour LSWP class using the new EPA training curriculum. If they took the full 8-hour HUD LSWP class before a Company was EPA/State accredited or before the new EPA curriculum came out and they received that training from a firm like Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc. (BEC, a firm recognized by EPA), then those people are now required to only have to take a 4-hour LSWP refresher class from an accredited training provider (such as from BEC). Renovation projects also require the renovation firm to be EPA and/or State licensed as a Renovation Firm. Renovation firms and individual Certified Renovators must renew the Licenses and Certifications at least every 5 years under the EPA's RRP Rule. Before a Certified Renovator can renew their individual certification, they must take at least a 4-hour LSWP Refresher training course from an accredited training provider (such as from BEC).

On HUD projects, if it is NOT an abatement project (if it is a renovation, rehab, repair, maintenance, painting, or paint stabilization type project), HUD requires everyone to receive LSWP training from an EPA and/or State accredited training provider (such as from BEC) and to be certified by EPA/State (KS has their own certification/licensing requirement, which is separate and aside from EPA). These people can be certified by the State as an Abatement Worker or Abatement Supervisor, but they must have the LSWP certification as well. 

Descriptions of Courses Offered by Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc.

BEC can bring any of our training courses to your location  if enough participants are committed to make this feasible. Contact us by Email and let us know what courses you require, how many people you will be training and where and when you wish the courses to be held. We will try our best to accommodate you.

BEC often holds courses that are not included on the list of regularly scheduled courses. If you require a course that is not listed below, please call us at (913) 541-0220 to see if a course or session can be scheduled to meet your needs. We need at least fifteen (15) days notice to schedule a course, so we can provide the state agencies with their required advance notice and to have course manuals made.

Persons wishing to attend any of the courses listed below must fill out, sign and return a Training Agreement to be eligible to attend a course. To obtain a Training Agreement, please provide us with your name, your company name, your complete physical mailing address (including zip code), your phone number, your fax number, which course(s) you would like to attend, and the date(s) of the course(s). Once we receive this information from you, a Training Agreement will be mailed, emailed, and/or sent by fax. 

Please register early, since we need a certain number of attendees in order to be able to put a class on. A filled out, signed and returned Training Agreement is what we use to confirm a reservation in a particular course. Additionally, we need the filled out and signed Training Agreement so that we will know the exact number of manuals to have available and how large of a classroom to setup.

Go to our Sign Up section to register for any of the listed courses.

Local BEC classes are typically held at one of the following locations in the Overland Park, Kansas and Lenexa, Kansas area:

Holiday Inn Hotel - is located at 8787 Reeder Road in Overland Park, KS (I-35 & 87th Street Parkway). Their phone number is (913) 888-8440.

Crowne Plaza Hotel - is located at 12601 West 95th Street in Lenexa, KS (exit 224; I-35 & 95th Street). Their phone number is (913) 888-6670.

Day's Inn - is located at 9630 Rosehill Rd., Lenexa, KS (exit 224 at I-35 and 95th Street). Their phone is (913) 492-7200.

Comfort Inn - is located at 12601 96th Terrace in Lenexa, KS (exit 224 at I-35 and 95th Street). Their phone number is (913) 438-6969. 

If you need hotel reservations be sure to inform the reservations person that you are attending a professional training course through Baker Environmental Consulting in order to get any available discounts.

SPECIAL NOTE:

Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc. is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a 3 year training contract with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) to provide professional abatement training. Under this contract with KDHE, Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc. will be giving persons the benefit of our years of hands-on experience and technical expertise in lead abatement, which has been developed as a result of starting to provide lead abatement activities in March of 1976. The professional training courses are being offered because KDHE has received an almost $3 million grant from HUD to conduct lead hazard control on 265 homes in Wyandotte County, KS.  For more information about how to be able to receive lead abatement contract work under the KDHE/HUD Grant, please call: Mr. Mike Persley at  (913) 262 – 0796.

BEC is very proud to announce that we have been approved by the Kansas Workforce Partnership to provide professional training to persons living in Johnson County, Leavenworth County and Wyandotte County who are under-employed or unemployed, in an effort to make those persons better able to obtain gainful employment. Persons living in those Kansas counties who are intersted in obtaining funding to receive professional training from BEC should contact the Kansas Workforce Partnership program nearest them. In Johnson County, the Kansas Workforce Partnership program office is located at: 9221 Quivira Road in Overland Park, KS 66215. Their telephone number is: (913) 642-7260. The web address  for the Kansas Workforce Partnership is: www.workforcepartnership.com

We are also very proud to annouce that effective December 22, 2009, BEC has received full and formal Nationwide accreditation from EPA to provide training for "Lead Safety During Renovation, Repair and Painting", also often known as Lead-Safe Work Practices (LSWP) Training. This is the EPA mandated training, as required under the new EPA Rule referred to as the "RRP Rule" (Renovation, Remodeling and Painting Rule). Effective April 22, 2010, on a Nationwide basis (be advised that some states may put regulations into effect earlier), all persons who provide construction trade services (e.g., Carpentry, Painting, Renovation, Remodeling, HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Modernization, Roofing, Carpet Installation, Repair, Maintenance, etc.), where they will impact equal to or greater than 6 square feet interior, or equal to or greater than 20 squre feet exterior, of any lead-containing material/paint/surface coating will be mandated to have successfully completed this professional 1-day training course. All persons will also be required to be licensed/certified by the appropriate State agency where the work is occurring or by EPA. Lead Safety Training, as well as the documented and proper use of lead-safe work practices will be required for all persons nationwide. 

	Richard A. Baker, CPS, CEM, CELC, ACD, and President of Baker Environmental Consulting, Inc. is an internationally known and well respected expert in all aspects of the lead hazard control industry. Click here to read more!

Baker Environmental
7941 Westgate Street
Lenexa, KS 66215-2636
(913) 541-0220 (Voice)
(913) 541-0457 (Fax)
info@bakerenvironmental.com