This course is a combination of a pre-recorded lecture and self-paced videos. It includes two hours of backflow prevention and one hour of energy conservation.
S330 (Landscape and Recreation) and S410 (Boiler, Pipeline, Waste Water, and Water Conditioner) licensees that actively work with and install backflow prevention devices are required to have 2 hours (of their 6 hours of CE) related to backflow preventer installation every renewal cycle.
S410 – Boiler, Pipeline, Waste Water, and Water Conditioner Contractor: Section R156-55a-301 – Utah License Classifications – Scope of Practice
(i) The fabrication, construction, and installation of:
(A) pipes, conduit, or cables for the conveyance and transmission from one station to another of such products as water, steam, gases except for natural gas which requires an RMGA certificate holder to conduct the work, chemicals, slurries, other substances, data, or communications, geothermal systems, or solar thermal systems up to where the system interfaces with any other plumbing system;
(B) installation of above and below ground storage tanks, piping, dispensing equipment, monitoring equipment, and associated temperature-control or other equipment for any petroleum, petrochemical, water, steam, chemicals, slurries, oil, gases except for natural gas which requires an RMGA certificate holder to conduct the work, or other substances;
(C) insulation of pipes, ducts, and conduits;
(D) excavation, cabling, horizontal boring, grading, trenching, and backfilling necessary for the construction of any work related to the scope of practice under Subsection (2)(v);
(E) fire-tube and water-tube power boilers and hot water heating boilers, including fittings and piping, valves, gauges, pumps, radiators, converters, fuel oil tanks, fuel lines, chimney flues, heat insulation and other devices, apparatus, and equipment related thereto, in a system not connected to the culinary water system, or connected to the culinary water system but separated from the culinary water system by a backflow prevention device;
(F) water conditioning equipment and only such pipe and fittings as are necessary for connecting the water conditioning equipment to the water supply system within the premises;
(G) sewer, sewer lines, sewage disposal, septic tank, and drainage including excavation and grading with respect thereto, and the construction of sewage disposal plants and appurtenances thereto; and
(H) incidental excavation, backfill, concrete or asphalt work related to the scope of practice under Subsection (2)(v).
(ii) A contractor under Subsection (2)(v) shall hire or subcontract with an RMGA-certified licensed contractor for any natural gas-related work.
(iii) The installation of a backflow preventer device if during each renewal period after initial licensure, the licensee completes at least two of their six continuing education hours pursuant to Section R156-55a-303b in continuing education directly related to backflow installation.
