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Something fun posted from PetroPlaza:

Down an old country road in the boondocks of East Texas, marked off with barbed wire and trailed by sky-high windmills, a freshly painted sign is mounted in front of an old gas station. Read More >>

The Arkansas DEQ did a decent job posted a YouTube video for Class C UST operators. Check it out.

As we get closer to the national training deadline (53 days from today and counting), we have some good news. UST Training is proud to offer even more UST Training courses for UST Operators, Inspectors and Technicians. Look to register soon for the following.

US Virgin Islands Class A/B UST Operator Training -live webinars

Puerto Rico UST Class A/B UST Operator Training -live classes in Spanish!

Washington Class A/B UST Operator Training – Live classes and live webinars

Also, we’ve launched a new 3-day UST Boot Camp course in Washington DC October 30 – November 1, 2012.

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It’s been a very long haul from Oregon adopting UST operator training rules in 2003 to just last week when Connecticut almost adopted rules but got delayed.

Most states have rules on the books, a few states are close, a few states will be delayed and a few states won’t be ready any time soon.

Quick update:

Guam and CNMI are neck and neck to get UST rules adopted in the next few weeks.

Hafa Adai! UST Training is pleased to announce we’ll be doing live Class A/B Operator Training in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CMNI) this July 17 (at the Aqua Resort Club) and July 18 (Pacific Island Club), 2012 on the island of Saipan. The CNMI DEQ will be sponsoring the classes and UST Training staff will be teaching them. The classes will be a combination of classroom and live field instruction which is always the most fun for us as well as the students.

This will be the only opportunity to get training in the CNMI before the August 8, 2012 deadline.

Registration is required so sign up today!

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Now that we’ve certified thousands of Class C UST  operators around the country, it’s exciting to see our spill response placard start to show up on sites.

Thanks to this proactive Oregon UST Operator!

In case you’ve never seen this placard before,

Guam Gas Station (courtesy of IP& E Guam)

UST Training is pleased to announce we have been awarded a contract with the Guam Environmental Protection Agency to train all Class A/B operators in Guam this July.

We will offer live classes on three different dates in order to help Guam UST operators meet the training requirements.

Companies with lots of UST facilities lean towards online training to deal with economies of scale when figuring out how to train large number of class C operators. And with the August 8, 2012 deadline quickly approaching, these companies are scrambling for smart solutions.

When shopping for large-scale Class C operator training, the live option is allowed in most states and required in a few states. For some companies, live training is simply not practical. And there’s much more involved behind the scenes running an online training business than you might expect.

We’re getting tons of calls and emails from UST owners these days looking for how best to meet the August 8, 2012 training deadline. With less than 90 days to go, it seems like this assignment has moved to the top of many to-do lists.

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UST Training is notifying our readers that it looks like Stage II Vapor Recovery, collecting vapors at certain gasoline dispensers, is going away, at least at a Federal level. Whether states like California or areas like Puget Sound in Washington will follow, remains to be seen.

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