EPA air monitoring chain of custody, Jan 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Environmental Protection Agency §763.85 State regulations (e.g., the Occupa­ fore October 12, 1988, local education tional Safety and Health Administra­ agencies shall Inspect each school tion eisbestos standard for construc­ building that they lease, own, or other­ tion, the EPA worker protection rule, wise use as a school building to iden­ or applicable State regulations). tify all locations of friable and nonfri- (c) Ensure that workers and building able ACBM. occupants, or their legal guardians, are (2) Any building leased or acquired on informed at least once each school year or after October 12, 1988, that is to be about inspections, response actions, used as a school building shall be in­ and post-response action activities, in­ spected as described under paragraphs cluding periodic reinspection and sur­ (a) (3) and (4) of this section prior to veillance activities that are planned or use as a school building. In the event in progress. that emergency use of an uninspected (d) Ensure that short-term workers building as a school building is neces­ (e.g., telephone repair workers, utility sitated, such buildings shall be in­ workers, or exterminators) who may spected within 30 days after commence­ come in contact with asbestos in a ment of such use. school are provided information re­ (3) Each inspection shall be made by garding the locations of ACBM and sus­ an accredited inspector. pected ACBM assumed to be ACM. (4) For each area of a school building, (e) Ensure that warning labels are except as excluded under §763.99, each posted in accordance with §763.95. person performing an inspection shall: (f) Ensure that management plans (1) Visually inspect the area to iden­ are available for inspection and notifi­ tify the locations of all suspected cation of such availability has been ACBM. provided as specified in the manage­ (ii) Touch all suspected ACBM to de­ ment plan under § 763.93(g). termine whether they are friable. (g)(1) Designate a person to ensure that requirements under this section (ill) Identify all homogeneous areas of friable suspected ACBM and all ho­ are properly implemented. (2) Ensure that the designated person mogeneous areas of nonfriable sus­ receives adequate training to perform pected ACBM. duties assigned under this section. (iv) Assume that some or all of the Such training shall provide, as nec­ homogeneous areas are ACM, and, for essary, basic knowledge of: each homogeneous area that is not as­ (i) Health effects of asbestos. sumed to be ACM, collect and submit (il) Detection, identification, and as­ for analysis bulk, samples under sessment of ACM. §§763.86 and 763.87. (ill) Options for controlling ACBM. (v) Assess, under §763.88, friable ma­ (iv) Asbestos management programs. terial in areas where samples are col­ (v) Relevant Federal and State regu­ lected, friable material in areas that lations concerning asbestos, including are assumed to be ACBM, and friable those in this subpart E and those of the ACBM identified during a previous in­ Occupational Safety and Health Ad­ spection. ministration, U.S. Department of (vi) Record the following and submit Labor, the U.S. Department of Trans­ to the person designated under §763.84 portation cind the U.S. Environmental a copy of such record for inclusion in Protection Agency. the management plan within 30 days of (h) Consider whether any conflict of the inspection: interest may arise from the inter­ (A) An inspection report with the relationship among accredited per­ date of the inspection signed by each sonnel and whether that should influ­ accredited person making the inspec­ ence the selection of accredited per­ tion, State of accreditation, and if ap­ sonnel to perform activities under this plicable, his or her accreditation num­ subpart. ber. (B) An inventory of the locations of § 763.85 Inspection and reinspections. the homogeneous areas where samples (a) Inspection. (1) Except as provided are collected, exact location where in paragraph (a)(2) of this section, be- each bulk sample is collected, dates

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