United Telephone Seminars - Training Resources

Corrosion Control for Water System Piping & Storage Tanks ...ated the annual cost of corrosion of water systems in the United States alone exceeds $22 billion and is expected to grow. The goal of this teleconference is to identify the corrosion process and proven measures that can be employed to reduce corrosion's negative impact on metallic piping and associated fittings. Eliminating or reducing corrosion will not only help conserve water, but also  more...

EPA's Rules on Compensatory Mitigation for Impact on Wetlands, Streams and Other Waters ... which regulates fill in wetlands and other waters of the United States. The new rules adopt a mitigation hierarchy that moves away from the prior preference for on-site, in-kind mitigation in favor of mitigation banks and watershed-based mitigation programs. The rules also clarify the financial measures the corps will require to ensure that the mitigation is actually carried out. Finally, the  more...

Living With Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) ...onal 16 jurisdictions. By the end of 2009, in most of the United States, attorneys representing nonprofit institutions and those who donate to them and their endowment funds will be governed by new state law which replaces the Uniform Management of Institutional Funds, which had been the law in 47 states since 1972. This teleconference helps you cope with a new set of legal requirements. In  more...

Probate and Estate Tax Return Preparation for Paralegals ...United States estate (and generation skipping) tax returns (Form 706) for your clients or just gather the information for the preparer, this teleconference introduces you to the process and will teach what needs to be done and how to do it. This teleconference includes a practical checklist for gathering the necessary information and demonstrates the application of the work by describing where  more...

8 Issues When Doing Business or Contracting With Native American Tribes ...an 500 federally-recognized American Indian tribes in the United States, each established under a constitution unique to the tribe. Each tribe, through its constitution and subsequent legislation, has developed its own laws and regulations addressing issues of contracting, jurisdiction and waivers, if any, of sovereign immunity. Individuals and entities seeking to do business with and/or  more...

FAS 117-1: Endowments of Not-for-Profit Organizations ...dent Management of Institutional Funds Act in most of the United States, the Financial Accounting Standards Board last year promulgated FASB Staff Position No. FAS 117-1. FSP FAS 117-1 provides guidance for nonprofits as to the proper classification of endowment funds when UPMIFA has been enacted and expands the required disclosure about endowment funds. The replacement of the prior legal  more...

Medicare Secondary Payer Act - Protecting Medicare's Interest in Insurance Settlements ...be made under a workmen's compensation law or plan of the United States or a state or under an automobile or liability insurance policy or plan (including a self-insured plan) or under no fault insurance.' By law, Medicare has a priority right of recovery from the primary payer as well as from parties in receipt of third-party payments, such as a beneficiary, provider, supplier, physician,  more...

Emerging Trends in Infrastructure Finance - The Stimulus and Beyond ...ust be explored. Governments in Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom have long recognized the need to look for alternative ways to develop and construct both transportation and social infrastructure (schools, hospitals, prisons, etc.), but this concept is just starting to gain some acceptance in the United States. This teleconference will look at emerging trends - both policy measures and  more...

Performance Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Constructed Bridges ...e most critical problems facing the infrastructure of the United States. According to a recent survey (ASCE 2005), an overall grade of D has been given to our infrastructure systems. Typical sources of bridge deterioration include increased live load, environmental attack and physical damage such as collision of heavy trucks. This teleconference presents an overview of the performance  more...

Immigration Compliance for the HR Professional: Employment Authorization Issues and Beyond ...United States employers must comply with employment authorization and verification laws, regardless of the size or composition of their workforce. This teleconference will supply you with the information you need to ensure your company is in compliance with employment authorization rules and regulations. Detailed guidance on employment verification procedures, Social Security number issues and  more...

Health Care Reform: Implications for Employers, Insurers, and Individuals ...h care reform could have a more significant impact on the United States economy and on our personal lives than any federal legislation in the past 100 years. Beyond the partisan politics and media hype are the practical concerns of employers, HR professionals, attorneys, third-party administrators, and other consultants and professionals who work with group health plans and related benefits on  more...

A Privacy Law Primer: What Every Attorney, Compliance and Security Officer Should Know ...econference will provide an overview and update regarding United States privacy and information security laws, regulations and private standards, and a brief overview on how the U.S. laws differ from dominant standards elsewhere. It will provide all the information you need to anticipate the critical privacy and information security legal issues and take effective preventive action, as well as  more...

Current Issues in Cell Tower Leases ...ss industry has built more than 220,000 cell sites in the United States in the past 20 years. But many more cell sites are needed as the wireless industry expands coverage and extends the capabilities of cell phones and wireless devices into data, email, computer and video applications. New cell sites and significant modifications to existing cell sites will also be needed to facilitate the  more...

Motor Vehicle Searches: Impact of the Arizona v. Gant Decision ...United States Supreme Court in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. ___ (2009) changed the way police must handle the search of an automobile incident to an arrest. For nearly as long as the automobile has existed, the Supreme Court has found an exception to the general Fourth Amendment warrant requirement for the search of cars if the search is based upon probable cause. See Carroll v. United States, 267  more...

Introduction to New ICD-10 Coding: Preparing for Implementation ...go, but because of the tie of ICD-9-CM to payments in the United States there have been a series of delays in the US implementation. As the US moves a lightening speed towards an electronic health record, there has been a renewed emphasis on transition since ICD-9-CM is not compatible with a true electronic health record. In January 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services published a  more...

Preparing for the International Financial Reporting Standard ...sed its proposed road map for the adoption of IFRS in the United States. At about the same time, leaders from the G20 countries at a financial summit in the United States issued a statement which, among other things, confirmed the leaders' support for developing a single set of high-quality global accounting standards. n nBoth of these events represent progress toward the adoption of IFRS in  more...

Impact of the New ADA Amendments on Schools .... In subsequent years, Supreme Court decisions (Sutton v. United Airlines [1999], Toyota v. Williams [2002] and others) severely narrowed the range of disabled individuals considered eligible for ADA protection. Responding to concerns of both labor and education, Congress passed a body of amendments to ADA in September 2008 which effectively overturned the Court's interpretations and replaced  more...

Floodproofing Fundamentals: Design Methods to Reduce Flood Damages ...oblem: Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States. According to the National Flood Insurance Program, more than 80 percent of the natural disaster losses in the United States are caused by flooding. Over the past 10 years, the National Weather Service estimates that flood losses have averaged more than $4 billion a year nationwide. Various government and insurance groups  more...

Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Guidance Under the New Administration - Rapanos or Oberstar? ...ndscape affecting development in and around waters of the United States was significantly altered by the Rapanos decision. Indeed, that landscape continues to shift as the Army Corps and the courts respond in new ways to a perceived loss of jurisdiction. This teleconference will help you understand the ever-changing jurisdictional landscape and navigate a course to project approval. The  more...

What You Need to Know About Section 404 Permits ...roposed project involving wetlands or other waters of the United States is likely to require some type of permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As the federal agency responsible for regulating impacts to wetlands, the Corps' regulations and the permit process can represent a significant part of a project's development. The identification of wetlands or other waters on a project  more...

Common NEPA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them ... been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their consultants and affected citizens do not fully understand the regulations, legal interpretations and practices for  more...

Current Trends in Transit-Oriented Development ...United States faces the most severe economic recession since the Great Depression, one sector of real estate - transit-oriented development - is situated to protect investors from the economic downturn and deliver attractive long-term profits. TOD provides a new investment opportunity for both the public and private sectors as our cities are faced with the challenges of rapid price fluctuations  more...

Sustainable Development and Land Use: The Future is Here and it is Green ...of the mandatory land use and zoning requirements in many United States jurisdictions. Pending and likely future developments will be discussed with an eye toward new policies and funding sources being put in place by the Obama administration. This teleconference will provide you professional with a solid introduction to green building as well as an up-to-date tour of federal, state and local  more...

Understanding the Rules of Legal Citations nThis teleconference will make you more conversant in the language of legal citation and more agile in navigating the Bluebook. Communicating effectively in the legal field requires that citations to legal authority follow a uniform citation format. Readers of legal prose must be given the research coordinates to locate any authority that is used to support legal propositions. Beyond the  more...