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The Hazardous Materials Training
and Research Training Institute
 HMTRI was established
in 1987 by two Iowa community colleges that have long been active in
environmental health and safety education and training. The purpose
of the Institute is to promote worker protection and the maintenance
of a clean and safe environment through education and training. HMTRI
is recognized as one of a select number of national centers for excellence
by several federal agencies, including the:
To find out more about HMTRI,
its educational opportunities,
partnerships, training programs, products, services and initiatives,
return to the CTRC home page and click on
the links listed under
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Colleges for HMTRI / Contact Information |
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| 6301 Kirkwood Blvd. SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52406
Call us at 800-464-6874
or 319-398-5893
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500 Belmont Rd.
Bettendorf, IA 52722
Call us at 563-441-4081
E-mail hmtri@eicc.edu |
About Us
The Environmental Training Center at Kirkwood
Community College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, serves as the home base for
Kirkwood's water and wastewater training programs, the Hazardous
Materials Training and Research Institute's (HMTRI) contract and
short-term environmental health and safety training, and the Community
College Consortium for Health and Safety Training (CCCHST), one
of 20 model worker training programs recognized by NIEHS.
In 1975, Kirkwood received the first EPA 109(b) appropriation to help
fund the building of a state wastewater training facility that allowed
the programs to expand. The Center was opened in 1976 as the first 109(b)
funded wastewater training center in the nation. In 1979 and again in
1990, additions that nearly doubled the size of the facility were added.
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Adjacent to the training center is the Kirkwood/HMTRI
hazardous materials training grounds. This three-acre site was
developed in 1986 and provides a safe and controlled site to deliver
many forms of industrial hazardous materials training. These include
fire control techniques, corrosive spill response procedures,
confined space entry and rescue, flammable liquid spill response,
compressed gas release response, pipe and valve leak response,
and loading dock spill response. The basic grounds consists of
a 100 x 150 feet concrete pad, an equipment storage building,
a simulations lab building, and a fully instrumented burn building.
Adjacent to the grounds is a field, stream, wood lot, and drum
storage site used in both spill response and 40-hour waste site
training programs. |
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