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§763.63 40 CFR Ch. I <7-1-00 Edfflon) recordkeeping requirements. Local neous ACM that is found in or on inte­ education agencies may contractually rior structural members or other parts delegate their duties under this rule, of a school building. but they remain responsible for the Asbestos debris means pieces of ACBM proper performance of those duties. that can be identified by color, texture, Local education agencies are encour­ or composition, or means dust, if the aged to consult with EPA Regional As­ dust is determined by an accredited in­ bestos Coordinators, or if applicable, a spector to be ACM. State’s lead agency designated by the Damaged Mable miscellaneous ACM State Governor, for assistance in com­ means friable miscellaneous ACM plying with this rule. which has deteriorated or sustained (b) Local education agencies must physical injury such that the internal provide for the transportation and dis­ structure (cohesion) of the material is posal of asbestos In accordance with inadequate or, if applicable, which has EPA’s “Asbestos Waste Management delaminated such that its bond to the Guidance.” For convenience, applicable substrate (adhesion) is Inadequate or sections of this guidance are reprinted which for any other reason lacks fiber as Appendix D of this subpart. There cohesion or adhesion qualities. Such are regulations in place, however, that damage or deterioration may be illus­ affect transportation and disposal of trated by the separation of ACM into asbestos waste generated by this rule. layers: separation of ACM from the The transportation of asbestos waste is substrate: flaking, blistering, or crum­ covered by the Department of Trans­ bling of the ACM surface: water dam­ portation (49 CFR part 173, subpart J) age: significant or repeated water and disposal is covered by the National stains, scrapes, gouges, mars or other Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air signs of physical irijury on the ACM, Pollutants (NESHAP) (40 CFR part 61, Asbestos debris originating from the subpart M). ACBM in question may also indicate damage. § 763.83 Definitions. Damaged Mable surfacing ACM means For purposes of this subpart; friable surfacing ACM which has dete­ Act means the Toxic Substances Con­ riorated or sustained physical irijury trol Act (TSCA), 15 U.S.C. 2601, et seg. such that the internal structure (cohe­ Accessible when referring to ACM sion) of the material is inadequate or means that the material is subject to which has delaminated such that its disturbance by school building occu­ bond to the substrate (adhesion) is in­ pants or custodial or maintenance per­ adequate, or which, for any other rea­ sonnel in the course of their normal ac­ son, lacks fiber cohesion or adhesion tivities. qualities. Such damage or deteriora­ Accredited or accreditation when refer­ tion may be illustrated by the separa­ ring to a person or laboratory means tion of ACM into layers: separation of that such person or laboratory is ac­ ACM from the substrate: flaking, blis­ credited in accordance with section 206 tering, or crumbling of the ACM sur­ of Title n of the Act. face: water damage: significant or re­ Air erosion means the passage of air peated water stains, scrapes, gouges, over friable ACBM which may result in mars or other signs of physical irijury the release of asbestos fibers. on the ACM. Asbestos debris origi­ Asbestos means the asbestlform vari­ nating from the ACBM in question may eties of: Chrysotile (serpentine); cro­ also indicate damage. cidolite (riebeckite): amosite (cum­ Damaged or significantly damaged ther­ mingtonitegrunerite) ; anthophyllite: mal system insulation ACM means ther­ tremolite: and actinolite. mal system insulation ACM on pipes. Asbestos-containing material (ACM) boilers, tanks, ducts, and other ther­ when referring to school buildings mal system insulation equipment means any material or product which where the insulation has lost its struc- contains more than 1 percent asbestos. turtd Integrity, or its covering, in Asbestos-containing building material whole or In part, is crushed, water- (ACBM) means surfacing ACM, thermal stained, gouged, punctured, missing, or system insulation ACM, or mlscella- not Intact such that it is not able to

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