Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program

Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program

This website has been designed to provide you with easy-to-find information regarding technical workshops, seminars, and short courses in the field of transportation. The Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program (Virginia LTAP) was established with one main goal: to provide informative, innovative, and affordable training to our customers, based on their needs. Naturally, to achieve this goal we need your feedback. So, we welcome any suggestions and recommendations that will make our programs even more useful to you. For questions or comments, please refer to the contact section of this website.

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Fall 2009

Lead Story: Virginia LTAP Opens Registration for Fall 2009 Workshops

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Virginia LTAP Classes May Qualify for Virginia PE License Renewal Continuing Education Credits

In April 2009 the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (VA DPOR) promulgated new regulations regarding continuing education requirements for holders of the Professional Engineer (PE) license in Virginia. (Click here to download a copy of the applicable regulations. See particularly pp 65—69 18VAC10-20-683 Continuing Education Requirements for Renewal or Reinstatement for full details.)

Virginia LTAP classes may help Virginia PE license holders meet the new VA DPOR continuing education requirements. Most one-day Virginia LTAP workshops involve 6.5 hours of instructional “contact time”. Under the new regulations, 50 minutes of “contact time” equals one professional development hour (PDH) for Virginia PE license renewal purposes. Therefore, attending a typical one-day Virginia LTAP class earns the license holder 7.8 PDHs. For a typical two-day class (13.0 instructional hours) license holders earn 15.6 PDHs, and so on. Virginia LTAP provides an attendance certificate to each student that completes one of our classes that documents the number of instructional “contact hours” for that class. Virginia PE license holders should retain that certificate for docu-mentation in the event of an audit by VA DPOR.

If you have questions about the new regulations contact the VA DPOR Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior designers and Landscape Architects (APELSCIDLA Board) at (804) 367-8506 or 367-8512 or e-mail at apelscidla@dpor.virginia.gov.