1. Course approvals for 2022
Courses approved for training unit (TU) credit have a calendar-year life-span. In 2021, over one thousand courses were approved for TUs and over six hundred of those were available as on-demand, online training. Although those courses expired on December 31, 2021, almost eight hundred new and renewed courses have already been approved for calendar-year 2022. Of those courses, more than four hundred are on-demand, online training.
New courses will continue to be added to the course catalog throughout the year, but the majority will be approved by the end of the first quarter of 2022. The CCWP web has instructions for finding approved online courses for TUs.
It is worth noting that the course catalog automatically defaults to the current year offerings.
2. Updated water Mandatory Regulatory Training (MRT) course
Operators who renew or upgrade their certificates in 2022 must have evidence in their portal account that they completed an approved water and/or wastewater MRT course within the past three years. The MRT course must be appropriate for the category of certificate being renewed or upgraded (water MRT course for water treatment and distribution certificates, wastewater MRT course for wastewater treatment and collection certificates). As regulations change, the required content for the water and wastewater courses MRT are updated. This increases operator awareness of the most current requirements for water and wastewater facilities.
The water MRT course content was updated for 2022, but the wastewater MRT course did not require any modifications.
Operators who need to take a water and/or wastewater MRT course can use the course catalog search engine to find courses that have been approved to meet the MRT requirement. To find MRT courses, from the course catalog search screen, find “Additional Course Approvals:” then select “Approved for regulatory water training” and/or “Approved for regulatory wastewater training” then click search. This will return a list of courses approved for water and/or wastewater MRT. In addition, the program provides links on the CCWP web to free, on-demand, online water and wastewater MRT courses.
3. Lawful presence requirement removed
In May 2021, the Colorado legislature repealed the statutory requirement for individuals holding state-issued licenses or certificates to verify that they are in the country lawfully. Therefore, the Water and Wastewater Facility Operators Certification Board amended Regulation 100 in September 2021 to remove the regulatory requirement for certified operators to verify their lawful presence in the United States.
Operators must still upload current documentation to their CCWP Portal accounts to verify identity, but applications no longer require a statement from applicants attesting to their lawful presence.
