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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 26.07.03.01" title_num="26" subtitle_num="07" chapter_num="03" heading="Approval of Training.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Board-approved training shall be designed to improve, advance, or extend professional skill and knowledge relating to the practice of an environmental sanitarian.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>For courses for which continuing education units (CEUs) have been assigned, one CEU is equivalent to 10 clock or classroom hours of approved training.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Board-approved training may consist of participation in any of the following:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>College-level or post-graduate course work given by an accredited college or university;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Courses, seminars, workshops, or lectures;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Extension studies and correspondence courses, if there is satisfactory proof of completion, acceptable to the Board;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>In-service training, if there is satisfactory proof of completion;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Papers published in professional journals and requiring peer review;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Instruction of approved training courses, with up to 10 hours in approved training courses per renewal period accepted.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Approved Training Log. The Board will maintain a current list of all training that has been approved by the Board and that listing is to be called the Approved Training Log.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Assignment of Credit.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The Board will determine the hours of approved training as follows:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>For courses given in educational institutions, 1 hour of approved training is equivalent to 1 hour of classroom training;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Credit hours for training such as correspondence courses and extension studies and papers shall be determined by the Board on a case-by-case basis.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Approved training obtained within the appropriate license renewal period shall be credited.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Credit shall be received for other training approved by the Board on a case-by-case basis.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Procedures. The sponsor of a training course or licensee may request of the Board approval of training on a form provided by the Board.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>