Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-being › 332a - Standards for Asbestos Abatement › Section 19a-332a-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
The following definitions shall apply for the purpose of
				Section 19a-332a-1 to Section
				19a-332a-16
				inclusive.
(a) "Adequately wetted"
			 means sufficiently mixed or coated with water, amended water or an aqueous
			 solution; or the use of a removal encapsulant to prevent dust
			 emissions;
(b) "Amended Water"
			 means water to which a chemical wetting agent or removal encapsulant has been
			 added to improve penetration;
(c)
			 "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of actinolite, amosite,
			 anthophyl-lite, chrysotile, crocidolite and tremolite;
(d) "Asbestos Abatement" means the removal,
			 encapsulation, enclosure, renovation, repair, demolition or other disturbance
			 of asbestos-containing materials, but does not include activities which are
			 related to (A) the removal or repair of asbestos cement pipe and are performed
			 by employees of a water company as defined in Section
			 25-32a
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes or (B) the removal of nonfriable
			 asbestos-containing material found exterior to a building or structure other
			 than material defined as regulated asbestos- containing material in 40 CFR 61,
			 the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants, as amended from
			 time to time;
(e) "Asbestos
			 Abatement Project" means any asbestos abatement performed within a facility
			 involving more than three (3) linear feet or three (3) square feet of
			 asbestos-containing material;
(f)
			 "Asbestos Abatement Worker" means any employee of a licensed asbestos
			 contractor who engages in asbestos abatement, has completed a training program
			 approved by the department and has been issued a certificate by the
			 department;
(g) "Asbestos Abatement
			 Site Supervisor" means any employee of a licensed asbestos contractor who has
			 been specifically trained as a supervisor in a training program approved by the
			 department and who has been issued a certificate by the department;
(h) "Asbestos-Containing Material" (ACM)
			 means material composed of asbestos of any type and in an amount greater than
			 one percent by weight, either alone or mixed with other fibrous or nonfibrous
			 material;
(i) "Asbestos Contractor"
			 means any person engaged in asbestos abatement whose employees actually perform
			 the asbestos abatement work and who has been issued a license by the
			 commissioner;
(j) "Authorized
			 Asbestos Disposal Facility" means a location approved for handling and
			 disposing of asbestos waste by the Connecticut Department of Environmental
			 Protection or by an equivalent regulatory agency if the material is disposed of
			 outside the State of Connecticut;
(k) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
			 Public Health or his/her authorized agent;
(l) "Conn OSHA" means the Connecticut
			 Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Division;
(m) "Demolition" means the wrecking or taking
			 out of any load-supporting structural member of a facility together with any
			 related handling operations or the intentional burning of any
			 facility;
(n) "Department" means
			 the Connecticut Department of Public Health;
(o) "DEP" means the Connecticut Department of
			 Environmental Protection;
(p)
			 "Emergency Asbestos Abatement Project" means an asbestos abatement project
			 which was not planned but results from a sudden unexpected event. This includes
			 operations required by non-routine failures of equipment;
(q) "Emergency Demolition" means a demolition
			 operation ordered by an authorized state or local official, that if not
			 immediately attended to presents a safety or public health hazard;
(r) "Encapsulation" means the treatment of
			 asbestos-containing material with a material that surrounds or embeds asbestos
			 fibers in an adhesive matrix to prevent the release of fibers as the
			 encapsulant creates a membrane over the surface (bridging encapsulant) or
			 penetrates the material and binds its components together (penetrating
			 encapsulant);
(s) "EPA" means the
			 United States Environmental Protection Agency;
(t) "Enclosure" means the construction of an
			 air-tight, impermeable, permanent barrier around asbestos-containing material
			 to control the release of fibers into the air;
(u) "Facility" means any private or public
			 building or structure including but not limited to those used for
			 institutional, residential (including single family homes), commercial or
			 industrial purposes and vessels while ashore or in drydock;
(v) "Facility Owner" means the person or
			 entity having title to the facility. For purposes of publicly owned property
			 only, the Facility Owner shall be defined to be the chief executive officer of
			 the federal, state or municipal agency which owns or controls the use of the
			 facility;
(w) "Friable
			 Asbestos-Containing Material" means any asbestos-containing material that hand
			 pressure can crumble, pulverize, or reduce to powder when dry and non-friable
			 asbestos-containing material that potentially can be broken, crumbled,
			 pulverized or reduced to powder as a result of asbestos abatement;
(x) "Glove Bag" means a manufactured
			 polyethylene bag type of enclosure with built-in gloves, such as is placed with
			 an air-tight seal around asbestos- containing material and which permits the
			 asbestos-containing material contained by the bag to be removed without
			 releasing asbestos fibers to the atmosphere;
(y) "Individual" means any human
			 being;
(z) "Non Friable
			 Asbestos-Containing Material" means any asbestos-containing material that hand
			 pressure can not crumble, pulverize or reduce to powder when dry;
(aa) "OSHA" means the Occupational Safety and
			 Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor;
(bb)"Person" means any individual,
			 corporation, partnership, firm, association, sole proprietorship, the State of
			 Connecticut or any of its political subdivisions, or any other
			 entity;
(cc) "Removal" means the
			 taking out or stripping of any asbestos-containing materials from surfaces or
			 structural components of a facility;
(dd) "Renovation" means altering, in any way
			 other than demolition, one or more structural components. Operations in which
			 load-supporting structural members are taken out are excluded;
(ee) "Repair" means the restoration of
			 damaged asbestos-containing material; including but not limited to the sealing,
			 patching, enclosing or encapsulating of damaged asbestos-containing material to
			 prevent fiber release;
(ff) "Spot
			 Repair" means any asbestos abatement performed within a facility involving not
			 more than three (3) linear feet or three (3) square feet of asbestos containing
			 material;
(gg) "Structural
			 Component" means any pipe, duct, boiler, tank, reactor, turbine, furnace or
			 other component at or in a facility or any structural member of a
			 facility;
(hh) "Structural Member"
			 means any load-supporting member of a facility such as beams and
			 load-supporting walls or any non-load supporting member, such as ceilings and
			 non-load supporting walls;
(ii)
			 "Visible Residue" means any debris or dust on surfaces in areas within the
			 enclosed work area where asbestos abatement has taken place and which is
			 visible to the unaided eye. All visible residue is assumed to contain
			 asbestos;
(jj) "Work Area" means
			 the specific area or location where the actual asbestos abatement work is being
			 performed or such other areas of a facility which the Commissioner determines
			 may be hazardous to public health as a result of such asbestos
			 abatement.