FY 2004 Environmental Enforcement Training Report 

December 2004 

Office of Compliance 

Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (MC 2224-A) 

Washington, D.C. 20460 

http://www.epa.gov/compliance/data/results/training/index.html 
EPA FY 2004 Training 1 Final Report 

FY 2004 Environmental Enforcement Training Report 

Compiled by U.S. EPA’s 

 National Enforcement Training Institute 

This report captures environmental enforcement training activities by the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) both at the Headquarters and Regional level. By 

reporting and coordinating these activities, the National Enforcement Training Institute 

(NETI) recognizes the achievements of those involved and encourages continued efforts to 

provide quality training for environmental enforcement professionals around the country. The 

detail of the report is divided into two sections: Headquarters and Regional Offices. 

In summary, EPA’s enforcement and compliance program trained 15,066 persons 

in fiscal year 2004, through a combination of classroom, computer and videotape training. 

This includes 5,748 by Headquarters’ offices and 9,318 by Regional offices. The total is a 

15% increase over last year.

NETI, created by Congress in 1991, is responsible for training Federal, state, local, and 

tribal enforcement professionals, such as lawyers, inspectors, civil and criminal investigators, 

and technical experts, in the enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. Quality training 

courses are provided for enforcement personnel in a number of areas, such as case support, 

specific statute enforcement, compliance assistance, and environmental criminal enforcement. 

By using traditional classroom training, distance learning, and cooperative agreements with other 

organizations, NETI’s strategy is to promote a balanced training approach to environmental 

enforcement training. 

NETI is a division within the Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training 

(OCEFT) which is in the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA). In FY 

2005, NETI will be moving laterally within OECA to the Office of Compliance. NETI serves as 

the coordinating office for enforcement and compliance monitoring training created, taught or 

contracted for by OECA offices, and reports Regional office activities. 
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance at Headquarters

The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) is located at EPA 

Headquarters and is composed of five program offices and three staff offices. Training resources 

are generally decentralized within the organization, thus each office within OECA is responsible 

for developing and delivering training courses for its areas of expertise and programs for which 

it serves as national manager. 

Training Statistics

The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), as reported to 

NETI, trained 5,748 federal, state, local, tribal and international personnel through 237 

different course deliveries in FY 2004. Training state, local and tribal personnel remained a 

strong focus, as a combined total of 2,871 students, or 50%, were trained from these 

organizations. A total of 2,500 Federal employees received training (43%), and international 

and other students numbered 377 (7%). A detailed list of classroom courses offered this year is 

located in Appendix A. 

Of the total number of trainees, 1,350 persons were trained via non-classroom courses and 

products this year. Most students (1,320) used computer-based products such as CD-ROM 

and web-based training, and 30 training videotapes and guides were mailed to enforcement 

personnel. 

EPA FY 2004 Training 2 Final Report 
Number of Students Trained 

Employer FY 2004 FY 2003 FY 2002 FY 2001 FY 2000 

Federal 2500 2178 2508 2470 3462 

State 2617 2912 2610 4462 3845 

Local* 0 450 552 265 395 

Tribal 254 487 250 428 132 

International 280 155 138 557 220 

Other 97 165 182 87 148 

TOTAL 5748 6347 6240 8269 8202 

* state and local numbers combined in FY 2004 

Training Highlights

Various offices within the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA), 

including NETI, developed or delivered training this year. Following are highlights of the new 

or unique courses; a complete listing of classroom courses held is in Appendix A. 

The Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training (OCEFT)

In March 2004, 28 law enforcement officers and regulatory personnel from state and 

local agencies throughout the United States completed the 2-week Advanced Environmental 

Crimes Training Program conducted at the EPA training facility at the Federal Law 

Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in 

Glynco, GA. The EPA Criminal 

Investigation Division developed this 

course to assist and prepare personnel for 

the complexities associated with 

environmental crimes investigations. The 

program combines classroom lectures with 

practical application of demonstrated 

techniques in a mock business practical 

exercise on-site. 

EPA FY 2004 Training 3 Final Report 
 This offering was unique in that two teams of international students participated, one from

Australia and one from the Netherlands. In addition to these, members from a newly formed 

environmental crimes unit from Hawaii attended the course. 

 NETI has acquired an abandoned industrial steam generating 

plant located at the Denver Federal Center in Colorado for use as a 

practical exercise training site. Because it is an industrial facility, 

there are a number of scenarios that could be presented to provide 

realistic, hands-on training experience to environmental 

professionals in both the civil and criminal programs. Besides 

NETI, other organizations such as emergency management 

agencies have expressed interest in using this unique site for 

training. NETI has prepared the site and plans to use it for training 

courses in 2005. 

The Office of Federal Activities (OFA)

At the request of the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, OFA led a team of EPA staff in 

presenting the Principles of Enforcement Course to 27 participants in February 2004. Students 

were from the Serbian Ministry for Protection of Natural Resources and Environment, the 

Ministry for Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning of Montenegro, other personnel of 

the government of Serbia, and local non-government organizations. This was the first in a series 

of environmental training courses EPA will offer in Serbia and Montenegro. 

EPA continued its longstanding efforts in working with different levels of the Brazilian 

government by presenting the Principles of Enforcement Course in December 2003 in the city 

of Brasilia. 

The Office of Compliance (OC)

The debut of the new Clean Water Act (CWA) / National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) Inspector Training was held in Athens, GA on March 22-25, 

2004. This 3-day workshop was designed as a train-the-trainer course for experienced NPDES 

inspectors at EPA. Besides instructional and facilitator skills, the participants received content 

materials and instructional aids necessary to instruct other inspectors in the CWA/NPDES 

program. The first two days of training were held in the classroom, then the last day included a 

visit to a local Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW) facility where the students 

experienced hands-on activities such as records review, flow measurement and sampling. 

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EPA FY 2004 Training 5 Final Report 

Partnerships

NETI continued to provide funding to four Regional Environmental Enforcement 

Associations to assist in providing training at the state and local level. These organizations are 

alliances of regulatory, law enforcement, and prosecution agencies and were created by the states 

to support the effective enforcement of environmental statutes, with an emphasis on criminal 

enforcement. In addition to providing training, they offer networking opportunities, information 

support services, and technical assistance to their 47 member states and four Canadian provinces. 

In FY 2004, the State Associations trained a combined total of 1,310 students.

- Midwest Environmental Enforcement Association (MEEA), located in St. Charles, IL, 

trained 344 members 

- Northeast Environmental Enforcement Project (NEEP), located in Trenton, NJ, trained 

300 members 

- Southern Environmental Enforcement Network (SEEN), located in Montgomery, AL, 

trained 190 members 

- Western States Project (WSP), located in Phoenix, AZ, trained 476 members 

NETI also coordinated with the EPA Regional Offices on enforcement training. An 

Enforcement Training Coordinator in each Regional enforcement program worked with NETI 

to provide information and assistance on a variety of training matters, including reporting 

training needs, helping with classroom courses, and disseminating information to their 

colleagues. 

Training Facilities

Besides providing training in EPA’s Regional Offices around the country and at other 

state locations, NETI manages three state-of-the-art training sites: 

- NETI-Headquarters: over 22,000 

people attended various training 

activities, meetings, and video 

conferences in this facility, located 

in the historic Ariel Rios building in 

downtown Washington, DC. 

- NETI-West: 2,207 people used the training space at NETI-West, which is located 

in Lakewood, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. 

The NETI-West facility expansion was completed this year, and now includes 

offices, three classrooms, a library, 

computer training room, interview 

and observation rooms and a mock 

courtroom. The largest classroom 
now holds more than 100 people in a 

classroom setting. 

- NETI-FLETC: 108 law enforcement personnel attended training at EPA’s 

criminal enforcement training program which is housed at the Federal Law 

Enforcement Training Center in southern Georgia. 

For more information . . .

NETI’s web site can be found at www.epa.gov/compliance/training/neti. The Catalog 

and Schedule of OECA’s courses, as well as other training information and materials, are 

available on the web site. If you have other questions, please contact NETI at 202-564-2430. 

EPA Regional Offices

EPA’s Regional Offices provide a number of training opportunities for their staff as well 

as for state, local, and tribal government personnel located within their Region. For the purposes 

of this report, only enforcement and compliance monitoring training activities are included. 

Following are training highlights for FY 2004: 

Region 4:

EPA FY 2004 Training 6 Final Report 

The Science and 

Ecosystem Division, located at 

the Athens, GA office, regularly 

offers training courses for Region 

4 federal, state, and local agency 

personnel. This year, a number 

of water and hazardous waste 

courses were held in various 

locations, including Alabama, 

Georgia, Kentucky and Florida. 

One example is the 

Hazardous Waste Site Sampling Course which was held twice this year. The course 

included discussions of water, soil, waste, and groundwater sampling. Lectures on 

geophysics, field QA/QC procedures, proper sample handling, chain-of-custody 

procedures, and modern study designs were also included. The students participated in 

an outdoor exercise to observe the equipment used in environmental investigations. 

The course was held near Frankfort, KY in October 2003, where 42 students 

participated. The EPA office in Athens, GA was the site of the course in April 2004, 

where 46 students participated, including personnel from the states of Georgia, 

Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina. 
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Region 6:

In January of each year, Region 6 offers a Basic Inspector Workshop for personnel of 

state, local and tribal agencies located within Region 6. Other annual training workshops held 

this year included: 

RCRA Inspector Workshop: approximately 160 federal, state, local and tribal 

inspectors and enforcement officers came to Little Rock, Arkansas during the first week 

in April. The agenda included a field trip to a hazardous materials recycling center as 

well as presentations on new RCRA rules, fuel blenders, wood treaters, wastewater 

treatment unit exemptions, Subparts AA, BB, and CC, and evidence collection and 

preservation. 

NPDES Inspector Workshop: March 2004 in New Orleans, approximately 125 

inspectors participated in sessions on topics such as industrial pretreatment, evidence 

collection and preservation, Phase 2 stormwater requirements, Pollution prevention, 

Compliance Assistance, lab audits, field sampling equipment and techniques, flow 

measurement and others. 

Air Inspector Workshop: Almost 200 state and local air inspectors, mostly from 

states located in Region 6, attended this workshop in San Antonio. A total of 28 

different topics and keynote speeches were offered, including EPA Region 6 

RSC Space Shuttle Recovery Effort, Clean Air Act National Stack Testing 

Guidance, Annual Compliance Certifications, High Priority Violations, Clear Skies 

Initiative, and Toxicology for Air Inspectors. 

Regional Training Statistics

Following are training statistics for FY 2004, as reported by each Region. For the purposes of 

this report, only enforcement and compliance monitoring training activities are included. 

Regions # of 

Training 

 Activities 

# of 

Federal 

Students 

# of State 

and/or Local 

Students 

# of Tribal 

Students 

Student 

Totals

1 16 130 224 106 460 

2 23 11 609 0 620 

3 16 255 288 3 546 

4 16 95 514 23 632 
EPA FY 2004 Training 8 Final Report 

5 67 301 723 83 1107 

6 44 310 1346 138 1794 

7 9 62 45 5 112 

8 10 32 84 3 119 

9 62 82 2441 389 2912 

10 34 360 551 105 1016 

TOTALS 297 1638 6825 855 9318 

Appendix A 

FY 2004 Classroom Training 

Led or Provided by OECA 

Course Name and Number Locations Total No. of 

Students 

Office of Compliance (OC)

Misc. Organic National Emissions Standard for 

Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) (AIR 206) 

Chicago, Dallas 60 

Permit Compliance Data System (PCS) Basic 

Training (CWA 102) 

Tennessee, Washington, DC 22 

Basic PCS Entry, Retrieval, Inquiry, and QNCR 

Training (CWA 104) 

Atlanta, Las Vegas, 

Washington, DC 

33 

PCS QNCR Training (CWA 305) Washington, DC 11 

CWA/NPDES Inspector Train-the-Trainer Course 

(CWA 306) 

Athens, GA, 

Denver 

34 

Pesticide Product Enforcement Course (FIF 204) Ft. Myers, FL 50 

Pesticide Regulatory Education Program (FIF 305) Davis, CA 158 

Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics 

and Training (OCEFT)

Criminal Investigator Training Program (CIT 101) FLETC (Glynco, GA) 1 

Environmental Investigations - Basic (CIT 102) Poland 35 

Environmental Crimes Awareness (CIT 104) Lakewood, CO (25) 

Gallup, NM (2) 

729 
EPA FY 2004 Training 9 Final Report 

Course Name and Number Locations Total No. of 

Students 

Lisle, IL 

East Lansing, MI 

Snowmass, CO 

International Association of Chiefs of Police 

Environmental Crimes Training (CIT 105) 

Frederick, MD 24 

Environmental Crimes Instructor Training Program 

(CIT 111) 

Whilmington, CA 64 

Special Agent In-Service Training (CIT 201) FLETC (Glynco, GA) 43 

Tribal Environmental Investigations Training 

Program (CIT 302) 

Phoenix, AZ 65 

Advanced Special Agent In-Service Training (CIT 

303) 

 FLETC (Glynco, GA) (8) 8 

Advanced Environmental Crimes Training Program 

(CIT 311) 

FLETC (Glynco, GA) (2) 56 

Environmental Crimes Awareness and Evidence 

Collection (CRM 110) 

Sayreville, NJ (2) 

Salem, VA 

Brentwood, NY 

Hauppauge, NY 

Ft. Meade, MD 

Westchester Ct. Airport, NY 

Bohemia, NY 

Denver, CO 

364 

Environmental Crimes, Homeland Security, and Hot 

Zone Forensics (CRM 120) 

Edison, NJ 11 

Training for Regional Hearing Clerks (CST 105) Washington, DC 9 

Basic Inspector Training - Classroom (CST 109) Boston 

Kansas City 

Lakewood, CO (3) 

Edgartown, MA, 

Oneida, WI 

San Francisco 

Raleigh, NC 

253 

Administrative Hearings and Trials (CST 207) Denver, Washington, DC 128 

Enforcement Teamwork: Regulations to Resolutions 

(CST 208) 

Shepherdstown, WV 22 

Pleading and Litigating Civil Penalties (CST 303) Denver 31 

Advanced Negotiations Skills Training (CST 304) Denver, San Francisco, 

Anchorage, AK 

40 
EPA FY 2004 Training 10 Final Report 

Course Name and Number Locations Total No. of 

Students 

Advanced Inspector Training (CST 309) Atlanta, New York, Chicago, 

American Samoa 

106 

Office of Environmental Justice

Fundamentals of Environmental Justice Workshop 

(OEJ 104) 

Atlanta, Kansas City, Washington, 

DC (6) 

215 

OECA Environmental Justice Training Course (OEJ 

107) 

Washington, DC (11) 275 

Office of Federal Activities (OFA)

NEPA / 309 Review (FED 103) Washington, DC 31 

Principles of Environmental Compliance and 

Enforcement (INT 102) 

Brazil, Serbia, Morocco (2), 

Washington, DC 

117 

International Environmental Compliance Inspections 

(INT 109) 

Philippines, Honduras, Belize, 

El Salvador 

106 

Office of Regulatory Enforcement (ORE)

Basic ABEL Training (CST 101) San Francisco (2) 

Columbus, OH 

Philadelphia 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

Kansas City (2) 

Boise, ID 

Boston 

Phoenix 

Washington, DC 

146 

Basic BEN Training (CST 103) San Francisco (2) 

Columbus, OH 

Philadelphia 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

Kansas City 

Yakima, WA 

Seattle (2) 

Boise, ID 

Boston 

Phoenix 

181 

Basic INDIPAY Training (CST 114) San Francisco 

Columbus, OH 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

79 
EPA FY 2004 Training 11 Final Report 

Course Name and Number Locations Total No. of 

Students 

Kansas City 

Boise, ID 

Phoenix 

Washington, DC 

Basic MUNIPAY Training (CST 115) San Francisco 

Columbus, OH 

Philadelphia 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

Kansas City 

Boise, ID 

Phoenix 

70 

Basic PROJECT Training -SEP Analysis (CST 116) San Francisco 

Philadelphia 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

Kansas City 

Seattle 

Boise, ID 

Boston 

Phoenix 

116 

Primer and Overview of Ability to Pay (CST 124) San Francisco 26 

BEN for Attorneys (CST 125) San Francisco 

Chicago 

Kansas City 

Washington, DC 

Boston 

Phoenix 

61 

Ability to Pay for Attorneys (CST 127) San Francisco 

Columbus, OH 

Philadelphia 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

Kansas City 

Seattle 

Washington, DC 

Boston 

Phoenix 

116 

Financial Analysts Workshop (CST 203) San Francisco 54 

Advanced Course on Economic Benefit of 

Noncompliance (CST 306) 

San Francisco 

Columbus, OH (2) 

Philadelphia 

Indianapolis 

Chicago 

145 
EPA FY 2004 Training 12 Final Report 

Course Name and Number Locations Total No. of 

Students 

Kansas City 

Yakima, WA 

Puget Sound, WA 

Washington, DC 

Boston 

Phoenix 

Case Development Training for 

FIFRA/TSCA/EPCRA (FIF 104) 

Chicago 30 

RCRA Subtitle C Financial Assurance Training (RCR 

206) 

Alexandria, VA 60 

Office of Site Remediation Enforcement 

(OSRE)

CEC: The Enforcement Process (CER 102) Washington, DC 33