Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 440 - Licensure and Training Requirements for Persons Engaged in Asbestos Abatement and Consultation Services › Section 20-440-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 20-440-1 through
				20-440-9
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Accredited" or "accreditation" when
			 referring to an individual means that an individual has successfully completed
			 the training requirements as set forth in section
			 20-440-7 of
			 the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies or the refresher training
			 requirements as set forth in section
			 20-441 of
			 the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, and has been issued a document
			 of accreditation by the training provider;
(2) "Approved training provider" means any
			 person who satisfactorily demonstrates through application and submission of
			 course agenda, faculty resumes, training manuals, examination materials, and
			 equipment inventory that he meets the minimum requirements established by
			 section
			 20-440-8
			 of the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(3) "Asbestos" means the asbestiform
			 varieties of actinolite, amosite, anthophyl-lite, chrysotile, crocidolite and
			 tremolite;
(4) "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 materials in 40 CFR 61,
			 the national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants, as amended from
			 time to time;
(5) "Asbestos
			 abatement site supervisor" means any abatement worker employed by 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;
(6)
			 "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;
(7)
			 "Asbestos-containing material" or "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;
(8) "Asbestos consultant" means any person
			 who engages in any activity directly involved with asbestos consultation
			 services and who has been issued a certificate by the commissioner and a
			 license by the department;
(9)
			 "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;
(10)
			 "Asbestos consultation services" means the inspection or evaluation of a
			 building for asbestos hazards, including, but not limited to, the development
			 of asbestos abatement plans, site inspections, air monitoring and provisions of
			 industrial hygiene services related to asbestos abatement;
(11) "Certified" or "certification" when
			 referring to an individual means that a certificate has been issued by the
			 department under the provisions of sections 20-440-1 through
			 20-440-9
			 of the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies to an individual upon
			 successful completion of an approved training or refresher training course, the
			 receipt of a document of accreditation issued by the training provider, and the
			 fulfillment of any other requirements of the department;
(12) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of
			 the department of public health;
(13) "Department" means the department of
			 public health;
(14) "EPA" means the
			 United States Environmental Protection Agency;
(15) "Facility" means the interior and
			 exterior of 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 dry
			 dock;
(16) "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 as the chief executive
			 officer of the federal, state or municipal agency which owns or controls the
			 use of the facility;
(17) "Friable
			 asbestos-containing material" means any material containing more than one
			 percent asbestos which when dry may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to
			 powder by hand pressure. The term includes non-friable asbestos-containing
			 material after such previously non-friable material becomes damaged to the
			 extent, that when dry, it may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by
			 hand pressure;
(18) "High
			 efficiency-particulate air" or "HEPA" means a filtering system capable of
			 trapping and retaining at least 99.97 percent of all monodispersed particles
			 0.3 micrometer in diameter or larger;
(19) "HVAC" means heat, ventilation and air
			 conditioning;
(20) "Individual"
			 means any human being;
(21)
			 "Inspector" means any licensed asbestos consultant who is certified as an
			 inspector, and identifies, assesses the condition of, or collects bulk samples
			 of suspected asbestos-containing material;
(22) "License" means a document issued by the
			 commissioner authorizing an asbestos contractor to engage in asbestos abatement
			 work, or an asbestos consultant to engage in any activity directly involved
			 with asbestos consultation services for which the asbestos consultant is
			 certified. Licensure as an asbestos consultant shall authorize the licensee to
			 engage in activities within the scope of the licensee's certification which
			 includes inspector, management planner, project designer and project
			 monitor;
(23) "Management planner"
			 means any licensed asbestos consultant who is certified as a management planner
			 and who uses data gathered by asbestos inspectors to assess asbestos hazards,
			 determine responses and develop implementation plans;
(24) "NESHAP" asbestos regulations means the
			 National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants codified at 40 CFR 61,
			 subpart M;
(25) "Non-friable
			 asbestos-containing material" means any material containing more than one
			 percent asbestos that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to
			 powder by hand pressure;
(26)
			 "OSHA" means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United
			 States Department of Labor;
(27)
			 "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association,
			 sole proprietorship, the State of Connecticut or any of its political
			 subdivisions, or any other entity;
(28) "Project designer" means any licensed
			 asbestos consultant who is certified as a project designer and who determines
			 how asbestos abatement work shall be conducted and prepares the plans, designs,
			 procedures, workscope or other substantive direction or criteria for abatement
			 projects;
(29) "Project monitor"
			 means any licensed asbestos consultant who is certified as a project monitor
			 and who functions as an on-site representative of the facility owner or other
			 persons by over-seeing the activities of the asbestos abatement
			 contractor;
(30) "Response action"
			 means a method, including removal, encapsulation, enclosure, repair and
			 operation and maintenance that protects human health and the environment from
			 ACM;
(31) "Spot repair" means any
			 asbestos-abatement activity involving not more than three linear feet or three
			 square feet of asbestos-containing material; and
(32) "TSCA" means Title II of the Toxic
			 Substances Control Act,
			 15 U.S.C. §
									2641 et seq.