The NETI eLearning Center provides online eLearning, live webinar, and classroom training opportunities to environmental enforcement personnel (including government inspectors, the legal community, and investigators) in federal, state, tribal and local governments.

Training for Federal, State, and Tribal Governments Personnel

NETI eLearning Center Account Registration

Instructions to register for a NETI eLearning Center Account 

EPA personnel may use their Adobe Connect user ID (EPA email address) and password to access the NETI eLearning Center Training Catalog. Obtain or reset your password.

Federal (non-EPA), state, local, and tribal personnel may register for a NETI eLearning Center account to access the Training Catalog.

Available Courses

• Upcoming Classroom Courses and Live Webinars

  None

• On-Demand eLearning Training Courses

  Use your Adobe Connect ID and password to view and enroll in the on-demand elearning training courses.

  ICIS Air Training Modules: This course contains six ICIS-Air online training modules. These training modules provide EPA’s headquarters, regional, delegated agency, and Local Control Region (LCON) staff with an introduction of best practices and tools used to manage data entry in the ICIS-Air application.  This course is available to all ICIS users in state, local, and tribal environmental agencies, as well as users in the private sector. Additional modules will be available in the near future.  No certificate is offered for these modules.

• Recorded Webinars

  Clean Water Act

  • An Introduction to the NPDES Stormwater Permitting and Enforcement Program
  • Wetlands Series
  • Effluent Guidelines
  • Water:  Current Developments and Challenges: November 4, 2016
  • History of Clean Water Act
  • Fracking
  • The Enforcement and Compliance History of Online
  • NPDES Overview
  • NPDES E-Reporting Rule
  • Pretreatment
  • Construction Stormwater

  Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, commonly known as Superfund)

  • Working to Achieve CERCLA Objectives at Federal Facilities
  • Superfund: Cleaning up Contaminated Sites

  Environmental Justice (EJ)

  • Contemporary Issues in Environmental Justice

  • Environmental Justice:  Challenges and Opportunities

  Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)/Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)/Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

  • Customs and Border Protection Pesticides Training - Legal vs Illegal Pesticides
  • Financial Assurances:  An Introduction to OECA's Web Tool
  • Pesticide Registration and Enforcement
  • The Toxic Substances Control Act
  • Manage Waste: Cradle to Grave
  • PCB, Asbestos, Residential Lead Paint, Nanotechnology and Green Chemistry
  • Overview of FIFRA: Pesticide Registration 

  National Historic Preservation Act

  • National Historic Preservation Act. Session 1: Day 1 held on Dec 7, 2015

  • National Historic Preservation Act. Session 1: Day 2 held on Dec 8, 2015

  • National Historic Preservation Act. Session 2: Day 1 held on Dec 9, 2015 (repeat session) 

  • National Historic Preservation Act. Session 2: Day 2 held on Dec 10, 2015 (repeat session)

  • EPA Compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act & refresher on 106 regulation

  Safe Drinking Water Act

  • SDWA Enforcement Response Policy

  Other

  • EPA as a Global Environmental Leader
  • EPA's Response to Disaster
  • EPCRA, America's Largest Neighborhood Watch Program
  • Overview of Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA)
  • Uncle Sam as A Polluter
  • The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
  • International:  Controlling Shipments of Waste Through Ports  
  • Finding a job in a Tight Market:  Sources and Strategies, "Resumes, References & Results
  • Suspension & Debarment: An Administrative Tool for Addressing Non-Compliance
  • 2015 Update To EPA's Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) Policy

  • Making your Internship a Success

  • Overview of EPA’s Enforcement Program

  • Ethics Issues for EPA Attorneys

  • CWA Coffee Break “30 Minute” Series - Biosolids

  • It's Not Necessarily Gone With the Wind

Training for the Public and the Regulated Community

• On-Demand eLearning Training Courses
  • Financial Model Training
  • ICIS Training Modules

  Financial Model Training

  • Basic ABEL Training (CST101W)
    Course Registration | Launch Course
  • INDIPAY Training (CST114W)
    Course Registration | Launch Course
  • Intermediate ABEL Training
    Course Registration | Launch Course
  • Advanced BEN Training (CST306W)
    Course Registration | Launch Course
  • Introduction to the Economic Benefit Model (BEN)
    This course will enable users with little or no economic background to use the BEN enforcement economic model in calculating the economic benefit portion of the penalty in enforcement cases. The course consists of three modules: Module 1 introduces the user to the basic concept of economic benefits it fits into EPA’s penalty approach; Module 2 is an introduction to the financial theory and concepts necessary to use the BEN enforcement economic model: and Module 3 is an introduction in how to use the BEN enforcement economic model. (Please note: that these modules are not interactive, but students can run the BEN model at the same time as the course if they want to work through the in-class exercise in Module 3.) 
    • BEN Model Module 1
    • BEN Model Module 2
    • BEN Model Module 3
  • Ethics of Environmental Enforcement
    This course, offered by Project ENCRIPT of the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT) will identify the ways in which unethical behaviors, by white collar criminals, might affect the course of an inspection or an investigation. The course objective are to: define ethics as it is related to the environmental enforcement professional, understand the concept of environmental justice, understand the difference between ethics and morals, understand the ethical issues for the environmental enforcement professional.
    Register at: LEMIT website

  Integrated Compliance Information System (ICIS) Training Modules

  • Gaining Access to ICIS: The online training module to provide step-by-step instructions on accessing the ICIS.  ICIS is a secure system only available to EPA and state users.
  • Roles & Responsibilities of a Regional System Administrator: The online training module to provide information on the roles and responsibilities of an ICIS Regional System Administrator.
  • ICIS Navigation & Searching Techniques: The online training module to provide instructions on the use of navigation tools available in the ICIS database.
  • ICIS Module 1 Adding a Facility: Online training module to instruct ICIS users on how to add a facility into the ICIS database.
  • ICIS Module 2 Adding a Permit: Online training module to instruct ICIS users on how to add an NPDES permit into the ICIS database. The various types of permits are discussed in detail.
  • ICIS Module 3 Compliance Monitoring - State: Online training module to instruct ICIS users on how to add a State inspection into the ICIS database.
  • ICIS Module 4 Informal Enforcement Action: Online training module to instruct ICIS users on how to add an informal enforcement actions into the ICIS database.
  • ICIS Module 5 Permit Tracking Events: Online training module to instruct ICIS users on the use of permit tracking events for ICIS-NPDES users. Detailed discussion on which permit tracking events are automatically or manually generated by the user.
  • ICIS Module 6 Search Enforcement Actions: Online training module that instructs ICIS user on how to search for an enforcement action record into the ICIS database.
  • ICIS Module 7 Single Event Violations: Online training module that instructs ICIS users on the definition of single event violations and how to enter the violations into the ICIS database.
  • Reports Training Module: Online training module to instruct participants on preparing an inspection report.
  • Preparing to Enter A Permit: Online training module to instruct participants on entering a permit.  This module is very helpful if this is your first time entering a permit.

Questions about NETI training?

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• E-mail:  NETI@epa.gov