CERCLA Education Center Overview

The CERCLA Education Center (CEC) offers U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on-scene coordinators (OSC), remedial project managers (RPM), site assessment managers (SAM), and other environmental professionals training courses on the many aspects of Superfund and the latest environmental technologies. The courses provide not only basic definitions and procedures, but detailed presentations on EPA's role with other federal agencies as well.

The CEC is an important part of EPA's Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) continuing mission to coordinate and improve workforce development programs through training. The program is designed so that participants can easily schedule the training that most applies to their job performance. OSCs, RPMs, and SAMs can take basic Superfund training and more advanced technical training.

There is no tuition for CEC courses and, upon completing the course, each participant receives a certificate.

Participants also receive reference materials that they can use later on the job.

The CERCLA Education Center has offered the following courses:

ARARs Academy

ARARs Academy Webinars

Advanced Design Application and Data Analysis for Field XRF Instrumentation in Soil Matrices

Advanced Presentation Skills Workshop

Basic Overview of Superfund Online

Best Management Practices for Site Assessment, Site Remediation, and Green Remediation Footprint Reduction

Best Practices for Efficient Soil Sampling Designs

Best Practices for Site Characterization Throughout the Remediation Process

CEC Presents...HQ Support Lines

CEC Presents...Superfund Essentials

CEC Presents...Superfund Overview for EPA Interns and New Staff

Federal Facilities Remediation Seminar

Federal Facility RPM

Fundamentals of Superfund

Getting to Remedy Selection More Quickly: Using a Conceptual Site Model to Understand Sediment Site Conditions, Characterize Contamination, and Reduce Uncertainties

Groundwater High-Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC)

Hazard Ranking System

IGEs for RPMs: From Scoping to Funding

Incremental Sampling

Introduction to Remedial Action Management when using EPA Contracts

Knowing and Using the National Contingency Plan (NCP)

Legal Issues for RPMs and OSCs

Live Online Federal Facility RPM

Managing Contracts: Focus on the Invoice

NARPM Presents... Intro to Building a Geologic Framework for Characterizing and Remediating Hazardous Waste Sites

NARPM Presents... The PCB Cleanup and Disposal Program: Coordinating with Superfund

NARPM Presents...Lead and Arsenic Conversion into Low Bioavailability Jarosite Family Minerals using In Situ Techniques

NARPM Presents...Practical Considerations to Aid the Design and Review of Site-Specific PFAS Evaluation

NARPM Presents...Resource Area Meet-n-Greets

NARPM Presents...Revitalizing Groundwater Strategies: Presenting New Approaches to Existing Guidance and an Innovative Mapping Tool

NSAS Presents...Hazard Ranking System (HRS) Mini Course

Negotiations Training for OSCs

OH EPA Remedy Selection for Groundwater Restoration

OSC 201

OSC Counter Terrorism Training

OSC Warrant Officer Training

PASI Webinar Series

Post Construction Completion

Preliminary Assessment and Site Inspection Training

Project Management Basics - Virtual Delivery

Purchase Card Training

RPM 201

RPM 301

Remedial Design-Remedial Action (RD/RA)

Remedial Design/ Remedial Action for Other Federal Agencies, States, Tribes and Consultants

Remedial Process Training

Removal Process

Removal Process for RPMs

Risk and Crisis Communication

Streamlined Investigations and Cleanup Using the Triad Approach

Superfund 101

Superfund Essentials

Superfund Overview for EPA Headquarters Staff

Superfund Relocation

TSP Groundwater Forum - Online Training Meeting: A Focus on Succession and Technical Training

Temporary Relocation

Triad Training for Managers

Triad Training for Practitioners

Waste Treatment, Transportation, and Disposal