diff --git a/rllib/agents/dqn/dqn.py b/rllib/agents/dqn/dqn.py
index 696633d96459..cdf34d7e52e0 100644
--- a/rllib/agents/dqn/dqn.py
+++ b/rllib/agents/dqn/dqn.py
@@ -234,6 +234,8 @@ def execution_plan(workers: WorkerSet,
         # which means that we don't need the sampling pipeline setup
         for batch in input_reader.get_all():
             local_replay_buffer.add_batch(batch)
+        config["bc_iters"] = input_reader.total_iterations_count
+        workers.local_worker().policy_map['default_policy'].update_config(config)
     else:
         parallel_rollouts_mode = config.get("parallel_rollouts_mode", "bulk_sync")
         num_async = config.get("parallel_rollouts_num_async")
diff --git a/rllib/agents/sac/sac.py b/rllib/agents/sac/sac.py
index 87f6c21254ae..b0b3389ce018 100644
--- a/rllib/agents/sac/sac.py
+++ b/rllib/agents/sac/sac.py
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@
     "normalize_actions": True,
     # Number of iterations to perform in the Behavior Cloning Pretraining
     "bc_iters": None,
+    # Number of epochs to perform in the Behavior Cloning Pretraining
+    "bc_epochs": 1,
 
     # === Learning ===
     # Disable setting done=True at end of episode. This should be set to True
diff --git a/rllib/agents/sac/sac_tf_policy.py b/rllib/agents/sac/sac_tf_policy.py
index c7a14bd3dbdd..17a3a36e7433 100644
--- a/rllib/agents/sac/sac_tf_policy.py
+++ b/rllib/agents/sac/sac_tf_policy.py
@@ -228,8 +228,11 @@ def sac_actor_critic_loss(
     # Should be True only for debugging purposes (e.g. test cases)!
     deterministic = policy.config["_deterministic_loss"]
     bc_iters = policy.config["bc_iters"]
-    bc_iters_const = (tf.constant(bc_iters, dtype=policy.global_step.dtype)
-                      if bc_iters else None)
+    bc_iters_const = tf1.placeholder_with_default(
+        tf.constant(bc_iters, dtype=policy.global_step.dtype),
+        shape=None,
+        name="bc_iters_const")
+    policy.bc_iters_const = bc_iters_const
 
     # Get the base model output from the train batch.
     model_out_t, _ = model({
diff --git a/rllib/policy/tf_policy.py b/rllib/policy/tf_policy.py
index 1479499b9274..c9be9473ec23 100644
--- a/rllib/policy/tf_policy.py
+++ b/rllib/policy/tf_policy.py
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ def __init__(self,
                 self.dist_class is not None:
             self._log_likelihood = self.dist_class(
                 self._dist_inputs, self.model).logp(self._action_input)
+        self.bc_iters_const: Optional[tf.Tensor] = None
 
     def variables(self):
         """Return the list of all savable variables for this policy."""