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APPLYING UST RED TAG AUTHORITY TU-C5

Tuesday 3pm to 4:45pm

Room	SEQUOIA-B
Seating	177 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0 ICC: 2.0
Speakers	Angela Samayoa, Maria Baker
Objective	UST Red Tag Authority is formal enforcement. We will discuss step by step what is required and when it is appropriate and necessary.
Description	How to apply Red Tag Authority per Title 23 and CHSC from the perspectives of a large PA and a small CUPA. We will share our processes which are slightly different but are both in compliance if followed. The key to each is documentation and communication.
Presentation	APPLYING RED TAG AUTHORITY

CORRELATING STI WITH APSA INSPECTIONS TU-G4

Tuesday 3pm to 4:45pm

Room	REGENCY-A
Seating	86 of 155 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Steve Pollock, Craig Fletcher, Joseph Mentzer, Jerry Schollmeyer, Tim O'Toole
Objective	Provide tank appurtenance overview and STI SP001 inspection checklist updates and how the checklists are an integral part of an APSA inspection.
Description	The session will provide recent STI SP001 inspection checklist updates and include APSA perspective along with industry experts to understand the role of STI/SPFA, how the standard was developed, and tank appurtenance overview.
Presentation	Updates to SP001 Inspection Checklists-7th Edition
	Correlating STI with ASPA Checklists
	Shop Fabricated AST Components
	TU-G4 Correlating STI with APSA Inspections OToole 2

SPCC PLAN WRITING TIPS & TRICKS TU-H4

Tuesday 3pm to 4:30pm

Room	SANDPEBBLE-ABC
Seating	90 of 168 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Steven Lichten
Objective	The session will provide insights for a compliant and easier to implement and maintain SPCC Plan, and help minimize violations.
Description	Unlike tax forms, what you write in an SPCC Plan must be accurate and comprehensive. But LIKE tax forms, what you write into an SPCC Plan has consequences. We'll discuss some SPCC Plan writing tips and strategies to 1) help you reduce reliance on consultants, 2) make it easier to achieve and maintain compliance, 3) provide operational flexibility, and 4) reduce the need for frequent SPCC Plan updates.
Presentation	SPCC Plan Writing Tips & Tricks - 2-per page handout
	SPCC Plan Writing Tips & Tricks - Full page slide handout

PRINCIPLES OF EHTER TU-I3

Tuesday 3pm to 5pm

Room	REGENCY-B
Seating	126 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Hoa Tan, Sauda Yerabati, Natalia Deardorff
Objective	Explore disaster Hazmat handling, emergency protocols, health impact assessment, response coordination through EH training in emergency response.
Description	This course is based on a hybrid model combining EH Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) awareness & operational levels. It provides a basic overview on disaster Hazmat handling, EH impacts, & California-specific Emergency Response protocols, to empower professionals in safeguarding communities & the environment.
Presentation	Principles of EHTER

EXPLORING CALCUPA.ORG'S NEW LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS) TU-L4

Tuesday 3pm to 4:45pm

Room	CYPRESS-C
Seating	19 of 100 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Tim Snellings, Branden Hendrix
Objective	Explore the benefits of CalCUPA's new Learning Management System (LMS) for your professional development to receive CUPA Program education and earn CEUs.
Description	The LMS will improve accessibility to training materials, such as in the HMBP, CalARP, and Hazardous Waste programs, allowing CUPA personnel to access the learning materials, quizzes, and assessments at their own pace and convenience. Come explore the different methods to access over 40 Haz Mat Training Courses and earn CEUs/ICC credits in support of your professional certifications. Don't get left behind as this is the future of your training.
Presentation	EXPLORING CALCUPA.ORG'S NEW LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)

HMBP - TOP 10 VIOLATIONS TU-M4

Tuesday 3pm to 4:30pm

Room	REGENCY-C
Seating	2 of 160 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Maxwell Wagner, Antoinette Stetzenmeyer
Objective	This session will go over commonly issued violations issued in the State. Provide some common solutions for these violations.
Description	This session will go over commonly issued violations issued in the State. Provide some common solutions for these violations.
Presentation	HMBP - TOP 10 VIOLATIONS

AN EXPLORATION INTO EMERGING CONSUMER PRODUCT REGULATIONS TU-N4

Tuesday 3pm to 4pm

Room	BOARD-ROOM-II
Seating	0 of 30 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0
Speakers	Marietje Hauprich-Baggerman
Objective	Embark on an insightful exploration of emerging consumer product regulations with a regulations subject matter expert from UL Solutions
Description	During this demo, Marietje Hauprich will provide a comprehensive overview of recent developments in consumer product regulations including Per- and Polyfluorinated Substances (PFAS), Proposition 65, Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) and Safer Products regulations.
Presentation	An exploration into emerging consumer product regulations

CALARP OFFSITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS W-A1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	SANDPEBBLE-DE
Seating	37 of 110 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Jack Becker
Objective	Participants will gain an understanding of offsite consequence analysis requirements, common modeling tools and underlying methodology.
Description	This course will outline the CalARP offsite consequence analysis requirements; model worst-case and alternative release scenarios for toxic gasses, toxic liquids, toxic solids and flammable substances; demonstrate use of common modeling tools (RMP*Comp, ALOHA, Marplot and tables in EPA's Risk Management Program Guidance for Offsite Consequence Analysis); and explain the underlying methodology used to estimate the distance to toxic end point.
Presentation	CalARP Offsite Consequence Analysis

HW: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY W-B1

Wednesday 8am to 8:50am

Room	SEQUOIA-A
Seating	99 of 250 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0
Speakers	Richard Medina
Objective	This session will provide an overview of hazardous waste best practices, separation and storage highlighting good and bad examples.
Description	The basic elements of this session will cover overall best practice when regulated entities accumulate and or generate waste, proper storage, documentation and disposal. The session will rely on visual aid to compare and contrast the good, the bad and the ugly waste storage practices at real facilities. At the end of the session, participants will have a better understanding of what proper hazardous waste storage areas looks like.
Presentation	HW: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

ABANDONED UST CLOSURE OUTREACH W-C1

Wednesday 8am to 8:50am

Room	SEQUOIA-B
Seating	206 of 350 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.0 ICC: 1.0
Speakers	Johnny Wales
Objective	This session will give an overview of efforts to assist with restoring compliance to abandoned, unpermitted USTs.
Description	Redhorse Corporation staff, partnering with the State Water Resources Control Board and US EPA, would like to share updates on the RAT (Removal of Abandoned Tanks) initiative, which aims to use enforcement correspondence and aid with financial assistance applications to compel owners of properties associated with abandoned, unpermitted, unmonitored USTs, to bring the USTs back into compliance.
Presentation	Abandoned UST Closure Outreach

CUPA 101 W-D1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	CYPRESS-AB
Seating	32 of 160 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Jason Boetzer, Kristen Ward
Objective	This session will provide participants with the history and evolution of the Unified Program.
Description	This course is a comprehensive overview of the Unified Program, including a brief history of environmental regulations which led to the creation of the program. The course will further examine the coordination, consolidation, & implementation of the six program elements. And finally, this course will provide an overview to the collaborative efforts of the stakeholders demonstrating successes.
Presentation	CUPA 101

THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERSHIP, THE NEW LEADERSHIP PLAYBOOK W-D5

Wednesday 8am to 4:45pm

Room	9052
Seating	12 of 36 seats available
Credits	REHS: 8.0
Speakers	Kirk Ford
Objective	This session will provide participants with leadership tools to make their teams higher performing and intent based.
Description	This course is based on the book "Leadership is Language" by David Marquet. We'll go over his new leadership playbook that uses language to empower your team to perform at their highest potential and build a framework that achieves the right balance between deliberation and action. 8 hours of energetic, thought provoking content.

EMPLOYEE SAFETY W-E1

Wednesday 8am to 11:45am

Room	HARBOUR-AB
Seating	69 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 4.0
Speakers	John Wilson
Objective	To become familiar with or reacquainted with safety procedures in the field related to mindset, emergencies, and safe actions in critical moments.
Description	With the help of professionals throughout California, CBLTAC combined a number of popular classes into a four hour class full of the most important and popular topics we teach involving "tactical" safety. "Employee Safety" covers on-the-job mindset, emergency operations plans (organizational and personal), accountability, safe actions while at the workplace or remote jobsites, operational honesty in communication, contact and cover techniques, preventing stress from the "information void", physiology of emergencies, personal protective equipment and everyday carry items, emergency location applications, natural emergency response, sheltering and lockdown procedures, and after-emergency topics (accountability, health, social media). "Employee Safety" is not the average "safety" class. It is an interesting, exciting look at how to be proactive at ensure you and your employees make it home safer each night.

STI ROLE IN TANK LISTINGS & SPOO1/031 UPDATES W-G1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	REGENCY-A
Seating	110 of 155 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Jerry Schollmeyer, Steve Pollock, Craig Fletcher, Joseph Mentzer, Tim O'Toole
Objective	To discuss tank and appurtenance manufacturing specifications and performance testing, including UL requirements.
Description	We will cover STI/SPFA, including general updates to SP001/SP031, and how STI develops tank manufacturing specifications in compliance with UL performance testing. An STI affiliate will discuss listing tests for ancillaries and manufacturers recommended periodic inspections, like emergency vents and overfill.
Presentation	Approval Criteria For AST System Components
	SP001 SP031 Update
	W-G1 STI Role in Tank Listings & SP001/SP031 Updates - Introduction OToole 1
	STI/SPFA and Tank Listings

HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CALIFORNIA: 101 W-H1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	POOLSIDE-PAVILLION
Seating	88 of 250 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Gary Lucks
Objective	Primer, overview of the salient requirements for managing hazardous waste under California law with practice tips to help assuracecompliance.
Description	This course will describe the hazardous waste regulatory requirements as they relate to hazardous waste compliance activities with particular focus on hazardous waste generator requirements. This comprehensive course is designed to provide an overview of up-to-date California and federal hazardous waste regulations including emergency response.
Presentation	HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT IN CALIFORNIA: 101

GROWING PAINS: ONE DEPARTMENTS EXPERIENCE WITH THE CANNABIS INDUS W-I1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	REGENCY-B
Seating	83 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Ken Kwong
Objective	Evaluate the transition of the cannabis industry from the gray market to legal market from the point of view of a fire agency.
Description	This course will provide a brief history on the path to legalization, a brief overview of requirements for cultivators and manufacturers from the California Fire Code and the challenges that we have encountered with maintaining compliance. This course will also present information on our role with the illegal/illicit cannabis market.

THE INTERSECTION OF DOT CLASSIFICATION WITH THE RCRA AND NON-RCRA W-J1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	CYPRESS-C
Seating	69 of 100 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Ross Kellogg
Objective	To better understand the relationship between the DOTs criteria for Hazardous materials classification and CA waste ID
Description	This 1.75-hr (2hr) session will go over the criteria for both 9 DOT hazard classes and the four hazardous waste characteristics, including RCRA and Californias additional criteria for corrosivity and toxicity. It will note the similarities and significant differences between the two agencies required tests. Additionally, this session will show how this relationship may effect choosing a Proper Shipping Name and various shipping communications
Presentation	THE INTERSECTION OF DOT CLASSIFICATION WITH THE RCRA AND NON-RCRA

HAZWOPER 8-HOUR REFRESHER (PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED) W-K1

Wednesday 8am to 4:45pm

Room	BAYSIDE
Seating	24 of 45 seats available
Credits	REHS: 8.0
Speakers	Brenda MacGregor
Objective	This course is required each year for anyone who has already taken the initial 24- or 40-Hour HAZWOPER certification and has kept current
Description	This OSHA compliant 8-Hour HAZWOPER Refresher classroom training session meets the annual refresher requirements for the Federal OSHA HAZWOPER Standard. The objectives of this course are to meet the Federal OSHA HAZWOPER training requirements of 29 CFR 1910.120(e)(8), 29 CFR 1910.120(p)(7)(i) or 29 CFR 1910.120(q)(8) for general industry, and 29 CFR 1926.65(e)(8), 29 CFR 1926.65(p)(7)(i) or 29 CFR 1926.65(q)(8) for construction.

CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE CHEMICAL HAZARD CLASSIFICATION DISCUSSION W-L1

Wednesday 8am to 9:30am

Room	SANDPEBBLE-ABC
Seating	33 of 100 seats available
Credits	REHS: 1.5
Speakers	Russell Vernon
Objective	Attendees will locate and recognize locations of relevant hazard data. Demonstrate ability to identify relevant and critique classifications.
Description	The presentation will demonstrate the application of Fire Code classification definitions relevant to MAQ limits for real chemicals. We will do a deep dive into the physical, chemical, and acute toxicity characteristics and discuss the use of Global Harmonized Standard Hazard Statements for classifications. The session will be interactive, allowing the participants to classify chemicals.
Presentation	California Fire Code Chemical Hazard Classification discussion with examples
	CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE CHEMICAL HAZARD CLASSIFICATION DISCUSSION

HMBP 101 W-M1

Wednesday 8am to 9:45am

Room	REGENCY-C
Seating	133 of 150 seats available
Credits	REHS: 2.0
Speakers	Melisa Custer, Teresa Quiaoit, Nicole Bandak
Objective	A general overview of the Hazardous Material Business Plan.
Description	This course will provide a general overview of the Hazardous Material Business Plan. This course will provide a brief history, a review of the regulations, and an examination of how to determine a hazardous material. And finally, this course will discuss the requirements of the hazardous material business plan.
Presentation	HMBP 101