New SR/WA Comprehensive Exams:

Effective January 1, 2012, there will be new SR/WA Comprehensive Exams. The current exams and exam format will be available through December 31, 2011. Comprehensive Exam taken and passed by December 31, 2011 can still be used to meet the capstone exam requirement.

Please note that only comprehensive exams are changing. Individual discipline exams remain the same.

New Ethics Requirement:

Effective July 1, 2012, only IRWA ethics courses – 103, Ethics and the Right of Way Profession or 104, Standards of Practice for the Right of Way Professionals may be applied towards the ethics requirements for recertification. Non-IRWA ethics courses previously approved by the IPDC will no longer count for recertification.

If you wish to use one of the previously approved non-IRWA ethics courses for recertification in your current 5-year recertification cycle, you must complete the course before July 1, 2012.