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CONNOR Receives EPA Accreditation to Train the New Certified Renovator Courses

August 14, 2009

CONNOR, a national real estate due diligence and environmental training firm headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, has received accreditation from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to train its new Certified Renovator Initial and Certified Renovator Refresher courses in Maryland and in other states and territories across the country.

This training will support thousands of organizations, incuding trade contractors, third-party propety management firms, rental property owners, and other public and private entities, that will have to comply with EPA’s new Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule, which becomes fully effective and enforceable on April 22, 2010. The EPA Rule applies to all “renovations” performed for “compensation” in pre-1978 “target housing” and in pre-1978 “child-occupied facilities” when lead-based paint will be disturbed by the work. “Renovations” is broadly defined and includes many typical maintenance activities in rental housing units. During the first year that the EPA Rule is in effect, approximately 8.4 million renovation events will trigger the regulation’s requirements. EPA estimates that 211,000 organizations will have to apply to the Agency become “Certified Renovation Firms, ” beginning in October 2009. Further, hundreds of thousands of workers will have to become trained and certified as “Renovators” by EPA accredited training firms like CONNOR.

CONNOR will offer the full-day Certified Renovator Initial and the half-day Certified Renovator Refresher courses at its state-of-the-art 3,300 square foot training center in Baltimore. CONNOR will also work with its many clients from around the nation to schedule Certified Renovator Initial and Certified Renovator Refresher courses at various off-site locations.

“We are excited to begin offering the new EPA Certified Renovator classes,” said Patrick Connor, President of the firm. “CONNOR has made a major commitment to this training and to provide the highest quality, most responsive, flexible and cost-effective training services to our clients.”

For more information about CONNOR and its new EPA Certified Renovator training classes, contact Jack Anderson, Vice President of Governmental Operations, at (443) 322-1223 or at janderson@connorsolutions.com.