Source: https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/readtac$ext.TacPage?sl=T&app=9&p_dir=F&p_rloc=118545&p_tloc=14978&p_ploc=1&pg=2&p_tac=&ti=25&pt=1&ch=295&rl=32
Timestamp: 2020-08-10 12:15:32
Document Index: 255540899

Matched Legal Cases: ['§763', 'art 763', '§1', 'art 61', '§1926', '§1926', 'art 61']

(C) visual inspections of the type described in 40 CFR §763.90(i) solely for the purpose of determining completion of response actions.
(52) Installation--A building or structure, or group of buildings or structures, at a single demolition or renovation site controlled by the same owner or operator (National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutant definition, 1990).
(53) Layer--Any constituent of an asbestos bulk sample that exhibits different physical properties such as color or composition and can be separated from the rest of the sample with an instrument such as a modeler's knife.
(54) License--Any license or registration, or any provisional license or registration, issued under this chapter.
(55) Licensee--A person who meets all qualifications and has been issued a license or registration by the Texas Department of Health in accordance with these sections.
(56) Local Education Agency (LEA)--means:
(A) a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or for such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or secondary schools;
(B) the term includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction of a public elementary or secondary school;
(C) the term includes an elementary or secondary school funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs but only to the extent that such inclusion makes such school eligible for programs for which specific eligibility is not provided to such school in another provision of law and such school does not have a student population that is smaller than the student population of the local educational agency receiving assistance under this chapter with the smallest student population, except that such school shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of any State educational agency other than the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and
(D) the owner or governing authority of any nonpublic, nonprofit elementary, or secondary school building.
(57) Major Fiber Release Episode--Any uncontrolled or unintentional disturbance of ACBM, resulting in a visible emission, which involves the falling or dislodging of more than 3 square or linear feet of friable asbestos-containing building material.
(58) Management plan--A written plan describing appropriate actions for surveillance and management of asbestos-containing material.
(59) Minor Fiber Release Episode--Any uncontrolled or unintentional disturbance of ACBM, resulting in a visible emission, which involves the falling or dislodging of 3 square or linear feet or less of friable asbestos-containing building material.
(60) Model accreditation plan--A United States Environmental Protection Agency plan which provides standards for initial training, examinations, refresher training courses, applicant qualifications, decertification, and reciprocity, as described in Title 40, CFR, Part 763, Subpart E, Appendix C.
(61) Municipality--A general-law, home-rule or special-law municipality as defined in the Texas Local Government Code §1.005. A legally created body politic providing local government functions in a community.
(62) NESHAP--The United States Environmental Protection Agency National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, as described in Title 40 CFR, Part 61.
(63) NIOSH--The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
(64) Nonfriable material--Material which, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
(65) NVLAP--The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program.
(66) Operations and maintenance (O&M)--Operations and maintenance activities are repairs, maintenance, renovation, installation, replacement, or cleanup of building materials or equipment.
(67) Operations and maintenance (O&M) contractor--A person who holds an Asbestos Operations & Maintenance Contractor (Restricted) license for general asbestos operations and maintenance work in a public building, as a building owner or agent, or as a contractor, if working for others.
(68) Operations and maintenance (O&M) manual--A record of operations and maintenance activities in a public building.
(69) OSHA--The Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
(70) OSHA Regulations--Regulations found in 29 Code of Federal Regulations, particularly 29 CFR §1926.1101, which governs asbestos in construction.
(71) Owner or operator of a demolition or renovation activity--Any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises a commercial building or facility being demolished or renovated or any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises the demolition or renovation operation or both.
(72) PAT--Proficiency Analytical Testing.
(73) PCM--Phase-contrast microscopy, a method of analysis for overall airborne fiber counts using an optical microscope.
(74) PEL--Permissible Exposure Limit as defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations (29 CFR §1926.1101).
(75) Person--A person is:
(B) an organization such as a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, governmental subdivision, or agency; or
(C) any other legal entity recognized by law as having rights and duties.
(76) Plans and specifications--Site-specific asbestos abatement description which includes drawings, floor plans or equivalent of sufficient size and detail, that display the location of asbestos abatement activities, the location of regulated area(s), and a clear and understandable written description of the work to be performed.
(77) PLM--Polarized-light microscopy, a method of analysis for detection of the presence and type of asbestos.
(78) Preparation--preparation for asbestos abatement activity which includes, but not limited to, the following activities:
(A) pre-cleaning; sweeping; wet wiping; high-efficiency particulate air filter vacuuming; sealing penetrations and openings; installing polyethylene; installing isolation barriers (critical barriers, dividing walls, etc.); installing any part of a decontamination system or any part of the water line connections to the showers, drains, and/or filtration; set-up or use of any load-out/bag-out systems, selection, installation, or maintenance of respiratory systems or fiber reduction systems such as misting, spraying, etc., positioning of warning signs; or
(B) installation of engineering controls (local exhaust ventilation equipped with HEPA filter dust collection systems, construction of containments or isolation mechanisms to control processes producing asbestos dust, ventilation of the regulated area to move contaminated air away from the breathing zone of employees and toward a filtration or collection device equipped with a high-efficiency particulate air filter); installation of scaffolding (in an area in which asbestos maybe disturbed during the installation); installation, set-up, and calibration of monitoring devices (including sampling systems and manometers); or
(C) removal of any item from a space within a public building, once an asbestos abatement contractor takes control of that space for the purpose of asbestos abatement. Control occurs when the area has been established by the asbestos abatement contractor as a regulated area.
(79) Public building--The interior space of a building used or to be used for purposes that provide for public access or occupancy, including schools, hospitals, prisons and similar buildings. Interior space includes exterior hallways connecting buildings, porticos, and mechanical systems used to condition interior space. The term includes any such interior space during a period of vacancy, including the period during preparations prior to actual demolition. The term does not include:
(A) an industrial facility to which access is limited principally to employees of the facility because of processes or functions that are hazardous to human safety or health;
(B) a federal building or installation (civilian or military);
(D) an apartment building with no more than four dwelling units;
(E) a manufacturing facility or building that is limited to workers and invited guests under controlled conditions;
(F) a building, facility, or any portion of which, prior to demolition, has been determined to be structurally unsound and in danger of imminent collapse by a professional engineer, registered architect, or a city, county, or state government official; or
(G) the portion of a building which has become structurally unsound due to demolition.
(80) Public school--Any elementary or secondary school operated by publicly elected or appointed school officials in which the program and activities are under the control of these officials and which is supported primarily by public funds.
(81) Regulated area--The demarcated area in which asbestos abatement activity takes place, and in which the possibility of exceeding the permissible exposure limits for the concentrations of airborne asbestos exists.
(82) Regulated asbestos-containing material (RACM)--means:
(C) Category I nonfriable ACM that will be or has been subjected to sanding, grinding, cutting, or abrading; or
(D) Category II nonfriable ACM that has a high probability of becoming or has become crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by the forces expected to act on the material in the course of the demolition or renovation operations regulated by 40 CFR Part 61, Subpart M.
(83) Renovation--Additions to or alterations of a building by removal, repairing, and rebuilding.
(84) Response action--A method, including removal, encapsulation, enclosure, repair, and operations and maintenance, that protects human health and the environment from friable asbestos-containing building material.
(85) Responsible person--The individual that is designated by the licensed asbestos abatement contractor, asbestos operations and maintenance contractor, asbestos laboratory, asbestos consultant agency, or asbestos management planner agency, as responsible for their operations and compliance with these rules.
(86) School--Any public or private, non-profit, elementary or secondary (kindergarten through grade 12) school as defined in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 8801).
(87) School building--Any structure suitable for use as a classroom, including a school facility such as a laboratory, library, school eating facility, or facility used for the preparation of food. Any gymnasium or other facility which is specially designed for athletic or recreational activities for an academic course in physical education. Any other facility used for the instruction or housing of students or for the administration of educational or research programs. Any maintenance, storage, or utility facility, including any hallway, essential to the operation of any facility described in this definition of "school building." Any portico or covered exterior hallway or walkway. Any exterior portion of a mechanical system used to condition interior space.
(88) Small-scale, short-duration activities (SSSD)--Tasks such as, but not limited to, removal of asbestos-containing insulation on pipes; removal of small quantities of asbestos-containing insulation on beams or above ceilings; replacement of an asbestos-containing gasket on a valve; installation or removal of a small section of drywall; or installation of electrical conduits through or proximate to asbestos-containing materials. Small-scale, short-duration activities can be further defined as the following.
(A) Removal of small quantities of asbestos-containing material only if required in the performance of another maintenance activity not intended as asbestos abatement.
(B) Removal of asbestos-containing thermal system insulation not to exceed amounts greater than those which can be contained in a single glove bag.
(C) Minor repairs to damaged thermal system insulation which do not require removal.
(D) Repairs to a piece of asbestos-containing wallboard.
(E) Repairs, involving encapsulation, enclosure, or removal, to small amounts of friable asbestos-containing building material only if required in the performance of emergency or routine maintenance activity and not intended solely as asbestos abatement. Such work may not exceed amounts greater than those which can be contained in a single prefabricated mini-containment. Such a containment shall conform spatially and geometrically to the localized work areas, in order to perform its intended containment function.
(89) Start date--The dates defined as: