State Board for Certification of Sewage Enforcement Officers
400 Market Street
P.O. Box 8454
Harrisburg, PA 17105-8454
Phone: (717) 787-6045
Fax: (717) 772-3249
Website: www.depweb.state.pa.us (click on Keyword, choose Sewage, choose Sewage Enforcement Officers)
E-mail: dabecker@state.pa.us
The Pa. State Association of Township Supervisors adds dates and locations as courses fill. New course announcements are on the www.seotraining.org website, under Available Training. View seating availability.
Fee
The registration fee for the academy is $300 per person for local agency-sponsored candidates and $800 per person for non-sponsored candidates. This fee includes all course materials, tuition, refreshments, and lunch each day. To qualify as a local agency-sponsored candidate, you must submit, with your registration form, a letter from a local agency, printed on official letterhead, stating your potential future or present employment with that agency. The registration fee must be received by PSATS 60 days prior to the course to keep a seat in the course. You must make your own hotel reservations.
The fee may be paid by credit card. Please call Kathy Kronicz at (717) 763-0930 to make the payment.
Who Should Attend
Anyone interested in being an SEO for a local agency should attend. The academy must be completed before taking the certification test for sewage enforcement officers. Only individuals who attend the entire six-day academy and complete necessary requirements of the academy will receive course completion certificates.
Instructors
Experienced SEOs and soil scientists.
Accessibility & Other Needs
Training is held at ADA-accessible locations. The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors will make every effort to accommodate participants with special needs who have noted them on the academy registration form.
Registration Information
Preregistration is required. Priority class registration is given to local agency SEOs. Each academy seats 22 to 24 attendees. The first 10 seats in an academy are available on a first-come, first-served basis. The rest of the seats will be held until 60 days prior to each academy for registrants who will be employed by a local agency for the purpose of doing regulatory SEO work.
If you will be working for a local agency as a regulatory SEO, please send with your registration form a letter on official letterhead from an appropriate local agency official as evidence of your future or current employment. A local agency is a municipality, a county, a county department of health, or a joint county department of health. If you have questions about this priority status, please call Kathy Kronicz at PSATS at (717) 763-0930 or e-mail seo@psats.org.
A completed registration form must be received by fax or mail by PSATS. Interested parties are asked to register early as class size is limited and classes fill quickly. Click here to view academy seat availability. Payment must be received within 60 days prior to an academy to hold a seat in the course. The fee may be paid by credit card. Please call Kathy Kronicz at (717) 763-0930 to make a credit card payment.
How to Register
To register for the academy, print out the academy registration form, and return it to the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors (PSATS) as soon as possible. Payment is due 60 days prior to the academy. Please be sure to indicate which academy you wish to attend.
The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
4855 Woodland Drive
Enola, PA 17025
(Checks made payable to "PSATS" or the fee may be paid by credit card. Please call Kathy Kronicz at (717) 763-0930 to make a credit card payment.)
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Fax to
(717) 763-9732
Confirmation
Registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Confirmed attendees will receive a postcard 15 days after PSATS receives their registration form. When registered for the academy, you will receive a confirmation letter with more information 40 days before the course begins. If the academy is filled, a PSATS representative will notify you immediately.
Cancellations
Cancellations received 60 days before the scheduled academy will forfeit $300 of the registration fee. Substitutions will be accepted.
- Successful completion of the academy means that the SEO candidate attends the entire academy. Complete attendance includes prompt arrival and adherence to breaks. Exceptions will be allowed for emergencies only and will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
- A person does not necessarily have to take the certification examination after completing the academy. However, if a participant does want to attain SEO certification, he or she must do so by passing the certification examination within one year of completing the academy.
- To take the certification examination, the SEO candidate must successfully complete the SEO academy and score at least 50 percent on the skills test. The skills test is given during the second day of the academy.
- The skills test must be successfully completed before a person may take the written examination. Therefore, anyone failing the skills test must retake the skills test. Upon passing the skills test, the candidate would then be allowed to take the written certification examination.
- The written portion of the certification examination is offered the Friday after the academy and on scheduled Saturdays throughout the state. To take this examination, a candidate must send an application to the certification board 30 days prior to the examination.
- All registrants must bring a photo ID to the academy.
- No smoking will be allowed in the classroom.
- Cell phones or other communication devices must be turned off during class. Five-minute breaks will be offered approximately every hour. At that time, calls may be made. Attendees will not be permitted to talk on communication devices during class and will be required to leave if they do.
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