Asbestos abatement technical specifications, 130 Cedar Street, July 2004

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Asbestos Abatement Technical Specifications For 130 Cedar Street, New York, NY

• 1.9 The Contractor will be expected to execute an AIA- 101 Construction Contract and comply with the applicable standard AIA General and Special Provisions in addition to these Specifications.

1.10 Storage areas will be assigned to the Contractor for equipment, tools and materials. No space will be allocated to the Contractor for parking of automobiles or trucks.

1.11 The Contractor may interrupt no building services without prior written permission from Owner(s).

1.12 Applicable Federal, State and Local rules and regulations governing abatement workers training requirements, and the disposal of asbestos materials are not completely documented in this Specification. The Contractor and his personnel are required to have read and familiarized themselves with such rules and regulations. Copies of these regulatory documents must be kept on the job site until completion of the work.

2.0 Definitions

2.1 Abatement: Procedures to control fiber release from ACM including removal, encapsulation, enclosure and repair. 2.2 Abatement Activities: all activities from the initiation of work area preparation • through successful clearance air monitoring to be performed at the conclusion of an asbestos project or minor project.

2.3 Aggressive Sampling: A sampling method in which the air sampling technician agitates and makes airborne any settled dust and residual asbestos fibers through the use of mechanical equipment to stir up settled dust during the sampling period, thus simulating activity in that area of the building.

2.4 AIHA: The American Industrial Hygiene Association, 475 Wolf Ledges Parkway, Akron, Ohio 44311

2.5 Air Lock: A system for permitting entrance and exit while restricting air movement between a contaminated area and an uncontaminated area. It consists of two (2) curtained doorways separated by a distance of at least three .(3) feet such that one (1) passes through one doorway into the air lock, allowing the doorway sheeting to overlap and close off the opening before proceeding through the second doorway, thereby preventing flow- through contamination.

2.6 Air Sampling: The process of measuring the fiber content of a known volume of air collected during a specific period of time. The procedure utilized for asbestos follows the NIOSH Standard Analytical Method 7400 or the provisional method developed by the United States Environmental - Protection Agency (USEPA), which are utilized for lower detectability and specific fiber identification.

Prepared by JLC Environmental Consultants, Inc. Project No. 04-3271 Page 8

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