Forwarding WTC air monitoring scope for final review, Aug 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Pt. 763. Subpt. E. App. C 40 CFR Ch. I (7-1-00 EdWon) hazard assessment: the role of the manage­ turbance; procedures for recordkeeping. EPA ment planner in hazard assessment: expla­ recommends that States require the use of nation of significant damage, damage, poten­ standardized forms for purposes of manage­ tial damage, and potential significant dam­ ment plans and Incorporate the use of such age; use of a description (or decision tree) forms Into the Initial training course for code for assessment of ACM: assessment of management planners. friable ACM: relationship of accessibility, vi­ 0) Assembling and submitting tbe manage­ bration sources, use of adjoining space, and ment plan. Plan requirements for schools in air plenums and other factors to hazard as­ TSCA Title 11 section 203(1) (1): the manage­ sessment, ment plan as a planning tool. (d) Legal implications. Liability; insurance (k) Financing abatement actions. Economic Issues specific to planners; liabilities associ­ analysis and cost estimates; development of ated with interim control measures, in-house cost estimates; present costs of abatement maintenance, repair, and removal: use of re­ versus future operation and maintenance sults from previously performed inspections, costs; Asbestos School Hazard Abatement (e) Evaluation and selection of control op­ Act grants and loans. tions. Overview of encapsulation, enclosure, (1) Coutse review. A review of key aspects of interim operations and maintenance, and re­ the training course. moval; advantages and disadvantages of each method; response actions described via a de­ 5. PROJECT DESIGNER cision tree or other appropriate method; work practices for each response action: A person must be accredited as a project staging and prioritizing of work in both va­ designer to design any of the following ac­ cant and occupied buildings: the need for tivities with respect to friable ACBM in a containment barriers and decontamination school or public and commercial building: (1) in response actions, A response action other than a SSSD main­ (f) Role of other professionals. Use of indus­ tenance activity, (2) a maintenance activity trial hygienists, engineers, and architects In that disturbs friable ACBM other than a developing technical specifications for re­ SSSD maintenance activity, or (3) a response sponse actions: any requirements that may action for a major fiber release episode. All exist for architect sign-off of plans: team ap­ persons seeking accreditation as a project proach to design of high-quality Job speci­ designer shall complete at least a minimum fications, 3-day training course as outlined below. The (g) Developing an operations and mainte­ project designer course shall include lec­ nance (O&M) plan. Purpose of the plan; dis­ tures, demonstrations, a Reid trip, course re­ cussion of applicable EPA guidance docu­ view and a written examination, ments; what actions should be taken by cus­ EPA recommends the use of audiovisual todial staff: proper cleaning procedures: materials to complement lectures, where ap­ steam cleaning and HEPA vacuuming; reduc­ propriate. ing disturbance of ACM; scheduling O&M for The abatement project designer training off-hours; rescheduling or canceling renova­ course shall adequately address the following tion in areas with ACM; boiler room mainte­ topics: nance; disposal of ACM: In-house procedures for ACM—bridging and penetrating (a) Background Information on asbestos. encapsulants; pipe fittings; metal sleeves: Identification of asbestos; examples and dis­ polyvinyl chloride (PVC), canveis, and wet cussion of the uses and locations of asbestos wraps; muslin with straps, fiber mesh cloth; in buildings; physical appearance of asbestos. mineral wool, and Insulating cement: discus­ (b) Potential health effects related to asbestos sion of employee protection programs and exposure. Nature of asbestos-related diseases; staff training: case study in developing an routes of exposure: dose-response relation­ O&M plan (development. Implementation ships and the lack of a safe exposure level; process, and problems that have been experi­ the synergistic effect between cigarette enced) , smoking and asbestos exposure: the latency (h) Regulatory review. Focusing on the period of asbestos-related diseases; a discus­ OSHA Asbestos Construction Standard found sion of the relationship between asbestos ex­ at 29 CFR 1926,58; the National Emission posure and asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothe­ Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants lioma, and cancers of other organs. (NESHAP) found at 40 CFR part 61, Subparts (c) Overview of abatement construction A (General Provisions) and M (National prq/ects. Abatement as a portion of a renova­ Emission Standard for Asbestos); EPA Work­ tion project: OSHA requirements for notlfl- er Protection Rule found at 40 CFR part 763, cation of other contractors on a multi-em­ Subpart G; TSCA Title II: applicable State ployer site (29 CFR 1926.58). regulations, (d) Safely system design speclBcatlons. De­ (1) Recordkeeping for the management plan­ sign, construction, and maintenance of con­ ner. Use of field inspector’s data sheet along tainment barriers and decontamination en­ with laboratory results: on-going record­ closure systems: positioning of warning keeping as a means to track asbestos dis- signs: electrical and ventilation system lock­

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