On Friday 2/26/2010 The Contractor Coaching Partnership facilitated the 6th straight sold out EPA RRP training. We have selected Kachina Lead Paint Solutions to provide training for our clients and associates. To date all of our trainings have sold out in less than 4 weeks.

We are asked every day about who must be certified under the new EPA RRP Rules. One common question is, do sub contractors have to be certified. See this recent answer from the EPA site about general contractors and subs.

The new EPA Renovate, Repair and Painting Rule requires that both contractors and sub-contractors become certified. Many contractors think this won't affect sub-contractors, however it does.

Many contractors are starting to find out about the EPA Renovate, Repair and Painting Rule. Remodelers, and Trade Contractors are lining up their training and sending in their application to become  an EPA Certified Firm.

We just finalized two new training dates for the EPA Renovate, Repair and Painting Certified Renovator Program. Our training on 1/13/2010 in West Boylston, Mass is sold out.

We just received two new dates for Contractor EPA Certified Renovator Training. Our West Boylston training on 1.13.2010 is sold out in three weeks over the holidays. That was pretty fast. Likely this is a sign that training venues will be in high demand throughout the spring.

In September, we recognized that there would be a shortage of EPA approved trainers for the Boston market to train contractors, remodelers, and the trades in time for the 4.22.2010 effective date. Currently there are just over a 100 approved trainers nationally and half a dozen in Mass. This presents a huge challenge for our industry. There will not be enough available training space for all that need to be trained before the effective date.