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1 NEFI Energy Online Now / This edition of NEON is under the sponsorship of NEFI s publication Oil & Energy A service of the New England Fuel Institute with news on Oilheat, propane, diesel fuel and biofuels NEW ENGLAND FUEL INSTITUTE January 30, 2008 Volume 3 Issue 4 In Letter and Trips to Capitol Hill, Industry Urges Major Boost to LIHEAP House Economic Stimulus Plan Would Provide Tax Rebates & Relief For Small Businesses Trucking Industry Oppose Automatic Temperature Compensation DOT Changes Shipping Paper Entries and Placarding for Ethanol Blends EPA Considers Rule Controlling Vehicle and Fuel Greenhouse Gas Emissions Industry Leaders Tackle Challenges to Bioheat News from NORA 2008 Visions Conference Venue and Dates Announced Open NEFI Board of Directors Meeting Scheduled for Feb. 21 NEFI on the Move! Welcome New NEFI Members PLEASE NOTE: Reporting to members on legislative and regulatory developments or providing pertinent compliance information does not constitute NEFI s support for that particular issue, unless otherwise stated. NEFI only takes positions on public policy issues after consulting its Officers, chairs and receiving consensus from the members of relevant committees. NEFI s Government Affairs Committee assembles on a monthly basis to review positions and strategy on timely public policy issues. Feedback from members is always welcome and appreciated! Link to news from: IN LETTER AND TRIPS TO CAPITOL HILL, INDUSTRY URGES MAJOR BOOST TO LIHEAP Legislative staff from the New England Fuel Institute ( the Petroleum Marketers Association of America ( and industry representatives from the Fuel Merchants Association of New Jersey ( Massachusetts Oilheat Council ( Oil Heat Institute of Long Island ( Oil Heat Institute of Rhode Island and the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association ( descended on Capitol Hill this week. Their message was loud and clear lawmakers must act now and fully fund the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIEAHP) to $5.1 billion for the current fiscal year (FY08). The specifics of the request were detailed in a letter sent this week to Senate leadership, relevant committee chairs and copied to all Senate offices. The industry asked the U.S. Senate to add to their chamber s economic stimulus package, currently being hammered out behind the scenes, an additional: $3.12 billion in LIHEAP formula funding to states (bringing the FY08 total to $5.1 billion) $500 million in LIHEAP contingency funding (for release at the President s discretion, adding to the $140 million he still has in reserves) $200 million in weatherization assistance (bringing the FY08 total to $427 million) To read the complete letter, click here. The letter and Capitol Hill visits were timed with this week s LIHEAP Action Day, sponsored by the advocacy collaborative National Fuel Funds Network ( of which NEFI is a For NEFI Membership Information: ph: fx: Rapid reply comments to: shane@nefi.com MAINE OIL DEALERS ASSOCIATION

2 recent member. NEFI Vice President for Government Affairs Jim Collura and PMAA Manager for Congressional Relations Rob Underwood helped to coordinate industry representation this year. According to NFFN officials, it is the first year that the non-utility heating fuels industry has had a major presence at the event. Industry representatives joined 180 other LIHEAP advocates from a myriad of interest groups, including utilities, low income and faith-based advocacy groups, community action programs, energy assistance administrators and others. If the big funding boost becomes a reality, it will make FY08 the largest federal funding year LIHEAP has seen in its 25 year history. The largest to-date was $3.16 billion in FY2006. During their meetings with DC lawmakers, industry representatives also urged a full funding for LIHEAP in fiscal year 2009, and explained the way the program affects our nation s small, family-run fuel dealers especially in states where harmful leveraging programs exist or are being considered. YOUR HELP IS NEEDED AND APPRECIATED NEFI s legislative and regulatory efforts are made possible only through generous contribution to the Legislative & Regulatory Action Center. If you would like to make a contribution, click here or please NEFI or call (617) Thank you we cannot do it without your support! HOUSE ECONOMIC STIMULUS PLAN WOULD PROVIDE TAX REBATES & RELIEF FOR SMALL BUSINESSES The House of Representatives this week approved a $146 billion economic stimulus package (H.R.5140) by a vote of The proposal includes a tax rebate of at least $300 per individual and $600 per couple, plus a child tax credit of $300. It would cap out at $600 per individual and $1,200 per married couple, and include the $300 per child credit. The rebate begins to phase out above incomes of $75,000 per individual and $150,000 per married couple The Bush Administration supports the House bill. If the rebate checks are signed into law, the Department of the Treasury estimates that it could have all 110+ million checks in the mail by mid-summer, if not sooner provided the bill is cleared by February 15th, as House Leaders hope. Small businesses may also see some relief from the stimulus package. The stimulus package includes both a temporary increase in the first year direct expensing allowance under section 179 of the tax code and a bonus depreciation deduction of 50 percent in the first year of depreciation. The direct expensing allowance would increase to $250,000 from the current level of $125,000. The proposal might also increase the phase out cap based on total equipment purchases in a year which would be raised to $800,000 from the current $500,000. The bill also includes mortgage relief for certain at-risk home owners. The bill now awaits consideration in the Senate, where lawmakers are frantically lobbying the leadership to make improvements to the bill. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) warned the Senate not to add anything to the bill that would jeopardize or delay passage of the bipartisan provision. NEFI has endorsed calls to increase LIHEAP and weatherization funding by adding an emergency supplemental to the measure (see the lead story article). As this issue of NEON went to press, the Senate Finance Committee was promising to finalize a proposal by week s end. Regulatory Developments NEWS FROM NEFI WASHINGTON, D.C. TRUCKING INDUSTRY OPPOSE AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION The American Trucking Association (ATA) has told the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) that they are opposed to a national ATC retail mandate. ATA believes that due to the competitive nature of the retail motor fuel industry, inventory shrinkage or expansion is accounted for in the retail pricing of diesel, and any impact of temperature variances is eliminated through competitive pricing. ATA also voiced concern that the cost of the installation of temperature compensation devices would increase the retailer s cost of goods and ultimately be passed on to the consumer. For this reason, ATA is concerned that the installation of ATC devices is a solution that may be more expensive than the problem it is trying to address. To read the ATA letter, click here.

3 DOT CHANGES SHIPPING PAPER ENTRIES AND PLACARDING FOR ETHANOL BLENDS The U.S. DOT s Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a final rulemaking on Monday, January 28th requiring new shipping paper entries and placards for gasoline blended with ethanol. The rule is important to petroleum marketers because it requires fundamental changes in shipping papers and placards for certain ethanol blends. PHMSA said the changes are necessary to help first responders utilize the most effective emergency response procedures for incidents involving fuel blends composed of ethanol in various concentrations. Specifically, gasoline with an ethanol content greater than 10% is polar/water-miscible (mixes with water) and requires alcohol resistant foam to minimize blanket breakdown, vapor breakthrough and re-ignition. Under the new requirements, PHMSA maintains current shipping paper entries for gasoline blends with not more than 10% ethanol. However, ethanol blended with gasoline in a concentration over 10% require the new shipping paper entry: Ethanol and gasoline mixture, 3, UN3475, PG II PHMSA is also limiting the shipping paper entry for gasohol to no more than 10% alcohol blends. New placards will also be required for gasoline blended with ethanol in concentrations over 10%. Under current regulations, PHMSA allows cargo tanks vehicles with multiple compartments containing different fuels to display a single placard representing the fuel with the lowest flashpoint. Generally, the placard 1203 is used to cover all petroleum distillates contained within a multi-compartment cargo tank. Under the PHMSA rule, this placard will no longer be permitted for ethanol blended with gasoline in concentrations over 10%. Instead, compartments with ethanol blends over 10% must be marked with a 3475 placard. Moreover, any time a compartment contains an ethanol blend over 10%, each compartment in the cargo tank vehicle must be individually placarded to the specific fuel it contains. Marketers may still display a single placard for the fuel with the lowest flashpoint in a multiple compartment vehicle if the gasoline blend being transported is 10% ethanol or less. In addition, PHMSA is allowing ethanol blended with 5% gasoline (E-95) to be marked with the 1987 placard instead of the new 3475 placard. Compliance with the rule is required by January 28, Voluntary compliance is effective immediately. NEFI will issue additional compliance information as necessary. EPA CONSIDERS RULE CONTROLLING VEHICLE AND FUEL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson told lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week that the agency plans to issue a rule in the near future to address greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and motor fuels. Testifying before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Johnson would not say when the rule would be ready or what it would contain. The EPA is under a court order to determine whether such emissions pose a danger to public health and welfare. If the EPA finds a danger to exist, then control measures will be developed for both vehicles and motor fuels. The agency has already missed a self-imposed deadline to make the determination and draft the rule, prompting threats of lawsuits from environmental organizations and more than a dozen state air authorities. EPA indicated last month that a rule controlling greenhouse emissions from vehicles and motor fuels may not be necessary due to new requirements passed in December by Congress mandating greater volumes of alternative fuels and increasing the CAFE standards for light trucks and automobiles. The EPA believes that cleaner burning alternative fuel mandates combined with increases in federal mileage standards would significantly reduce the danger of greenhouse gas emissions from these sources. If EPA adopts this position officially as part of its court ordered public health determination, which many believe is likely, then no new regulatory controls on vehicles or fuels would be pursued by the agency. The EPA is expected to make a decision on whether to proceed with the new rule within the next few months.

4 OUR BIO-FUTURE News From the World of Renewable Energy INDUSTRY LEADERS TACKLE CHALLENGES TO BIOHEAT A joint NORA/NBB BioHeat committee reconvened January 17th in Boston to discuss the immediate challenges the industry will likely encounter while transitioning BioHeat. Paul Nazzaro, NBB s Petroleum Liaison and John Huber, President, National Oilheat Research Alliance, (NORA) co-chaired the meeting. Following an update from NBB on legislative and technical issues Vic Turk, (Beckett Engineering) addressed the status of the ASTM D 396 amendment explaining that it will be voted on when ASTM convenes in June Rounding out the morning session Don Farrell, (Publisher, Oilheating Magazine) unveiled the consumer outreach program now available through NBB and Massachusetts Oilheat Council. The afternoon session kicked off with Mr. Don Allen, President, E.T. Lawson, Hampton, Virginia, and former NORA Chairman, asking the working group the following key question: should we as an industry move to BioHeat, when and at what blend? Nazzaro explained that a series of very important issues required attention to advance our transition. An example is logistics, how would biodiesel be delivered into bulk storage? Infrastructure, where would it be stored, blended and distributed to fuel dealers? Feedstock availability, would the biodiesel industry have adequate feedstock s to manufacturer 400+ million gallons (5% of 9 billion gallons of heating oil) and how would the industry manage fuel quality without compromise. Until these issues are resolved we cannot answer when the broad based transition to Bioheat would be. With input from industry leadership Nazzaro is now in the process of developing a roadmap designed to answer the question, when. Nazzaro will begin the selection process of a smaller group committed to this process mid-february. Shane Sweet, Jim Collura and Mike Markarian of NEFI were on-hand at the meeting, and reminded Nazzaro and Huber that NEFI will continue its support for the NBB/NORA BioHeat effort. For more information call or write Paul Nazzaro at (978) or paulsr@fuelsolution.com. NEW ENGLAND FUEL INSTITUTE NEWS BRIEFS News from NEFI Washington, D.C VISIONS CONFERENCE VENUE AND DATES ANNOUNCED Tracy Goodwin, NEFI VP & Director of Events, is pleased to announce that the 2008 Visions Conference will be held at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport Hotel in Boston, MA on September 8, 9 and 10, The venue was selected by the Visions Planning Committee at their first official meeting. OPEN BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 21 The next NEFI Executive Committee Meeting and OPEN Board of Directors Meeting will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at the Sheraton Harborside, Portsmouth, NH. The Executive Committee meeting will run from 9:00am to 12:00 noon and the NEFI Board of Directors Meeting will begin at 1:15pm and conclude at 3:15pm. This Board meeting will be OPEN, meaning any NEFI member that is not currently a Board member is welcome and encouraged to attend. Prior to the meeting will be the buffet luncheon from 12:15pm to 1:15pm. If you are interested in attending the Board of Directors Meeting, please contact Betty Kelley, Administrative Manager, at (617) or betty@nefi.com. A registration document will be available in the coming days.

5 NEFI on the Move! Tracy Goodwin, VP & Director of Events will be attending the prestigious CTSM (Certified Trade Show Marketer) Program. CTSM is the only university-affiliated professional certification program in the exhibits and events marketing industry. Candidates are required to complete a rigorous curriculum of 28 seminars which equals 42 hours of classroom study. These sessions are available at EXHIBI- TOR2008 and EXHIBITORFastTrak conferences. Tracy will be attending EXHIBITOR2008 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas from March This program typically takes 2 to 3 years to complete, at which point he will take the certification exam. Jim Collura, VP for Government Affairs is in Washington, DC, coordinated the industry s representation at the National Fuel Fund Network (NFFN s) LIHEAP Advocacy Day on Wednesday, January 30th, Donna Carcerano, NEFI Benefits Administrator announces new dental insurance program for NEFI members coming in April The new program will make available group dental insurance to members in all New England states. Contact donna@nefi.com for details. Christine Vieira-Trant, NEFI Controller (christine@nefi.com), is working with NEFI CEO Shane Sweet to upgrade NEFI s dated accounting software. An April 1st changeover date is anticipated. She is also working hard preparing for the important annual audit on February 4th. Betty Kelley, Administrative Manager, is busy planning the NEFI Executive Committee and Board of Directors meetings on February 21, See the article under News Briefs. Joanne Sharkey, NEFI Membership Coordinator, is busy processing NEFI dues renewal payments. Joanne would like to remind members to pay their dues early to avoid interruption of NEFI benefits. We thank you for your ongoing support. Shane Sweet, Executive VP & CEO, along with NEFI VP s Tracy Goodwin, Jim Collura and Mike Markarian will be attending the 2nd Planning Committee Meeting for September s Visions Conference (see article above). The meeting is being held on Thursday, January 31st at the Sheraton Bradley Airport Hotel. Craig Snyder of Wesson Energy will once again act as meeting facilitator and Don Craft of Global Companies, LLC will act as the meeting s Chairman. Additionally, Shane Sweet and Jim Collura of NEFI, NEFI President Sean Cota and NEFI Government Affairs Committee (GAC) Chair Chris Keyser have been regular participants in the regional Public Relations status calls. The most recent call was held January 15 and focused on on-going media and public relations concerning the Closetheenronloophole.com project, LIHEAP advocacy and high crude oil and retail fuel prices. The group, via its media consultant, Woodbury & Morse, is regularly quoted in local, national and international news on issues ranging from LIHEAP to Close The Enron Loophole to fuel prices. For information on the NPA PR effort, shane@nefi.com. Shane Sweet will participate in a meeting in early February with the air quality group NESCAUM on Stage II vapor recovery. To be discussed: Widespread Use Issues, including clarification of key issues, Northeast requirements for stage II and interplay with widespread use, discussion of states ability to phase out Stage II, use of recent EPA memos related to Stage II, Stage II equipment removal requirements and Stage II for new stations or those that undergo major modifications. NESCAUM expects participation from technical and management staff from the Vermont DEC, Maine DEP, New Hampshire DES, Massachusetts DEP, Connecticut DEP, Rhode Island DEM and NYS DEC, and EPA Region 1. Welcoming our New Members: Sinclair Risk & Financial Services, LLC Contact: Mr. Jeffrey Noll 295 E. Center St. Manchester, CT Phone: Fax: jnoll@sinclair-insurance.com Web: Sinclair Risk & Financial Services provides insurance to the petroleum industry.

6 Hometown Propane LLC Contact: Dennis Blackwell 148 Myrtle St. Hanover, MA Phone: Fax: Web: Hometown Propane is a retail fuel company delivering No. 2 home heating oil and propane. Fuel-Rite Petroleum Contact: Susan & John Haney 147 Route 94 Blairstown, NJ Phone: Fax: Fuel-Rite Petroleum is a retail fuel dealer delivering #2 home heating oil, kerosene, diesel-over the road and diesel-off road. NORA NORA News Contact: Mary-Rachel Keyser mrkeyser@nora-oilheat.org The National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA) is probably the best thing to happen for the Oilheat industry and its customers. The three key arms of NORA are Consumer Education, Professional Education, and Research & Development. Consumer Education, in which NORA reaches out through radio, television, print, and internet to inform the consumer that Oilheat is a clean, safe, efficient and modern form of heat, is paramount to the industry s survival. Professional education, through the certification programs provides continuing education and training for Oilheat service technicians. Finally, NORA s funding has helped a number of manufacturers to develop highly efficient heating equipment, such as condensing boilers and furnaces, variable speed furnaces, variable burners and number of other technologically advanced and highly efficient products. NORA also funds a number of projects at Brookhaven National Laboratory, which researches new heating methods and fuels, and it addresses tank and storage issues, delivery and fuel quality including BioHeat. This year NORA has expanded our efforts to delivering valuable education to Oilheat technicians and ultimately provides better service to our Oilheat consumers. NORA has completed an interactive database that tracks all training records, and also provides up-to-date training opportunities. John Huber, President of NORA, states: When designing this program, we set out to house all educational needs here. This will be the base for training and allow us to better integrate with people who need to find trained technicians, and who are providing educational opportunities. This interactive database will allow: technicians (NORA certified and non-certified) to log-in to a more comprehensive and detailed Career Account; companies can track their technicians educational careers; and educators can easily post CEUs for their students and conduct communication to potential students for upcoming classes through this robust database. With all this information being collected in one place allows NORA to offer consumers a look up feature to search for companies who offer services that they need. In the system, Realtors, Home Inspectors, and homeowners can look up what companies employ NORA-certified technicians or other certified companies such as Advanced Tank or Static Test in their area. Not only will the interactive database assist technicians, it can also help contractors continue their Oilheat education needs. NORA is establishing an outreach program for non-oilheat mechanical contractors by encouraging these professional to support the equipment and not merely recommend that it be replaced. NORA has offered the state associations an outreach program to sponsor a special edition of

7 Oilheating Magazine that focuses on new and highly efficient systems and products and instructional technical articles related to their business. In addition to the magazine offer, NORA is reaching out to plumbing trainers through the Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractor Association (PHCC). In March NORA will present four different Oilheat topics during their instructor workshops and tradeshow. NORA believes these trainers are untapped resources to join NORA s trainer circle and be positive activists to their industry about Oilheat. NORA is developing another new online tool called the Fuel Savings Calculator that will promote the sales of oil-fired systems by helping homeowners understand the savings they can achieve by upgrading equipment. Brookhaven National Laboratory created the efficiency calculation formulas while PriMedia developed the two user-friendly applications. The first application will be placed on NORA s Oilheatamerica.com site, where consumers can use it to get an approximate calculation of their potential savings. The other will be for a contractor tool that a trained salesperson can use with a homeowner to give a more precise calculation of how much fuel and money an upgrade will save them. The goal is to present our consumers energy saving equipment and advanced fuels. For more information about any of these projects please contact NORA at info@nora-oilheat.org. Connecticut ICPA updated links to the ITEC/ICPA Technical School Programs for 2008: S-License Day Program S-License Night Program B-License Day Program B-License Night Program B-License Night Program Fairfield County... EPA Section 608 Certifications... S, B & D License Review Programs... G License Propane Review Programs... P License Plumbing Review Programs... Class B CDL Drivers License Program... Tuition Assistance/Financing Programs... MAINE OIL DEALERS ASSOCIATION Maine Massachusetts Click here to link to MOC s Newsletter Desktop Councilor. Latest OHC-NH Newsletter New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont Click here to view the January 21, 2008 VFDA Newsletter FUEL TAX Vermont lawmakers continued to debate whether or not to create an all fuels efficiency program. The latest proposal would eventually triple the gross receipts tax on heating fuels. Based on average consumption and current prices, the tax will cost the Vermonters $47.25 a year. Details of the program

8 were released Friday afternoon. VFDA Executive Director Matt Cota testified in front of the House Natural Resources committee on the structure of the program. Rather than require a single point of entry controlled by a multi-million dollar corporation, VFDA and its members ask that lawmakers keep the side doors open and allow Vermont s small businesses to continue to sell heating systems directly to their customers without a middleman. Customers are demanding better performing heating systems and our members are here to provide that service. According to NORA, the average annual fuel consumption in 1973 was 1,294 gallons. Thanks to new high efficiency heating equipment, the average now is only 833 gallons That s 35% less fuel. While the number of miles traveled by Vermonters has doubled over the past two decades, consumption of heating fuels continues to decline. The legislation moves next to the Ways and Means Committee where lawmakers will discuss if a Gross Receipts Tax should be used to pay for the program. Since the tax is also up for reauthorization, the committee will also look at how the tax is administered, spent and how it is paid. The most controversial is who should pay. The study suggests three options: Taxing all non-transportation fuels Taxing just propane and heating oil Taxing propane and heating oil dealers with more than $10 million in sales GLOBAL WARMING HEARING Vermont lawmakers continue to study global warming inside the Golden Dome. Friday morning, the Senate Natural Resources Committee heard a report from the Governor s Commission on Climate Change. The report has 38 recommendations. The biggest concern for the oil and propane industry is the recommendation of a $240 million expansion of Vermont s Natural Gas infrastructure. The recommendation perpetuates the myth by the powerful Natural Gas lobby. Natural gas is composed largely of methane which is a very aggressive greenhouse gas. Over a 20 year time frame methane is 56 times more destructive than carbon dioxide. Why does this matter? Industry estimates show that approximately one to two percent of natural gas transported in pipelines escapes into the atmosphere: a problem known as fugitive emissions. Given the distances that natural gas has to travel to get to the end user, either through pipelines that stretch across Canada or on ships in a liquified form, fugitive emissions will always be an issue. It is VFDA s hope that any responsible discussion on Climate Change does not include a taxpayer subsidy to large, foreignowned utilities. Fuel switching will cost customers an average of $5,000 to $6,000. As oil prices go down, natural gas prices could shoot up. Fuel switching is a bad idea. When it comes out of the taxpayers pocket under the false promise of reducing greenhouse gases it is a horrible idea. VFDA 2008 EDUCATION AND TRAINING Download registration forms at NORA Silver Certification Seminar and Test Feb. 15, South Burlington, VT 8 Hours of VT Approved Continuing Ed. for State of VT Propane Feb. 27, Middlebury College Hands On Gas Ignition Controls 4 VT Natural and Propane CEUs Feb Location: Williston NORA Gold Certification Seminar and Test March 15, Location TBD Advanced Electrical Workshop March Williston, F.W. Webb, Williston Hydronic Controls, 14 NORA and 2 VT CEUs March 27-28, Location TBD Forced Air Heating, 7 NORA CEUs and 2 VT CEUs April 24-25, Location TBD Propane Gas CETP Series Training Seminar Books 1, 2, 4.1, 4.2, 6 & 7 April - July, F.W. Webb, Rutland

9 NEW ENGLAND FUEL INSTITUTE EDUCATION NEFI Education & Training Phone NEFI at or log on to for the most up-to-date class information. Click here to view a partial 2008 course list and mail-in registration form. HazMat Training Evening, March 4, Tues., Watertown, MA, NEFI Members: $120 / Non-Members $135 Info. & Registration Air Conditioning Evenings, Feb May 1, Tues. & Thurs., Watertown, MA, NEFI Members: $1,975 Non-members: $2,175, Additional $150 for books and lab fees. Registration Form Gas Heat for Oilheat Techs Evenings, March 4 - May 8, Tues. & Thurs., Watertown, MA, Registration Fee Including Books: NEFI Members: $1,495 Non-members: $1,795 Registration Form Master s of Oilheat Classes, March 10 - April 28, Mon. & Wed., Watertown, MA, NEFI Members: $825 Non-members: $1,050, Info. & Registration George Lanthier Seminars in March, April and May, Watertown, MA Register and Get More Info Here March North American Oil Burner Workshop, 14 NORA CEUs March Advanced Electrical Troubleshooting, 24 NORA CEUs April 1 Residential Steam School Seminar, 8 NORA CEUs April 2 Tune-ups Done Right & Troubleshooting Domestic Hot Water Systems, 8 NORA CEUs April 16 Hydronic Systems: Design, Piping and Wiring, 8 NORA CEUs April 17 Riello Burners Troubleshooting, 7 NORA CEUs April Applied Service Management, 16 NORA CEUs May 6-7 Advanced Common Sense Troubleshooting, 14 NORA CEUs To register online and for more information go to the NEFI website s Heating and AC Training section. Bob Hedden Classes in April, Watertown, MA April 8 Creative Credit & Collections Registration Fee: NEFI Members: $150 / Non-Members: $200 Information and Registration April 9 Increase Your Profitable Equipment Sales, NORA 6 CEUs. Registration Fee: NEFI Members: $150 / Non-Members: $200, Information and Registration April 10 Technical Training for Non-Technical People Registration Fee: NEFI Members: $150 / Non-Members: $200 Information and Registration Propane CETP Training in Bow, NH at the Hampton Inn and in Gilford, NH at F.W. Webb Co. Registration forms are available at Basic Oil Burner Installation and Service Technician Course Days* Watertown, MA, Classes start monthly. Information and Registration Basic Oil Burner Installation and Service Technician Course Days* Rhode Island and Vermont: Warwick, RI June 2 - June 27, Mon. - Fri. Hyde Park, VT July 7 - August 1, Mon. - Fri. White River Junction, VT July 7 - August 1, Mon. - Fri. Basic Oil Burner Installation and Service Technician Course Evenings* Watertown, MA Watertown, MA February 12 - June 26, Tues. & Thurs. Watertown, MA September 9 - January 29, 2009, Tues. & Thurs. Springfield, MA September 8 - December 17, Mon. Tues., Wed. Claremont, NH October 6 - February 19, 2009, Mon. & Wed., Warwick, RI Next Date TBD

10 Hyde Park, VT February 12 - June 26, Tues. & Thurs. White River Junction, VT February 12 - June 26, Tues., Thurs. *Basic Oil Burner Course Registration Fees: $2,095 for NEFI members plus $200 books and lab fees. $2,295 for non-members plus $200 books and lab fees. Future courses will be offered in: Electrical Procedures $795 for NEFI members/$845 for non-members Information