Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 855 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN ILLINOIS › Subpart E - LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES AND STANDARDS FOR ABATEMENT › Section 855.300 - Local Education Agency (LEA) Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Each LEA shall:
1) Ensure that any persons who perform
				inspections and reinspections, develop and update management plans, develop and
				implement response actions, including operations and maintenance or repair, are
				licensed in accordance with Section
				855.100.
2) Ensure that all custodial and maintenance
				employees are properly trained as required by the Asbestos Hazard Emergency
				Response Act (AHERA), the Asbestos Abatement Act, and this Part.
3) Ensure that parents, teachers, and
				employee organizations are notified in writing at least once each school year
				of inspections, response actions, and post-response action activities,
				including periodic reinspection and surveillance activities that are planned or
				in progress. The LEA shall include in the management plan a description of the
				steps taken to notify such organizations and a dated copy of the
				notification.
4) The LEA shall
				designate a person to oversee all management plan activities and ensure that
				the designated person receives adequate training to perform the assigned duties
				of the local education agency. Such training shall include:
A) Health effects of asbestos.
B) Detection, identification and assessment
				of ACBM.
C) Options for controlling
				ACBM.
D) Asbestos management
				programs.
E) Relevant federal and
				State regulations concerning asbestos, including those of the Occupational
				Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department
				of Transportation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the
				Department.
5) Ensure
				that short-term workers (e.g., telephone repair workers, utility workers, or
				exterminators) who may come in contact with asbestos in a school are provided
				information regarding the locations of asbestos-containing building materials
				(ACBM) and/or assumed ACBM.
6)
				Ensure that warning labels are posted in accordance with the following:
A) The LEA shall attach a warning label
				immediately adjacent to any ACBM and suspected ACBM assumed to be ACBM located
				in a routine maintenance area (such as boiler rooms) at each school
				building.
B) All labels shall be
				prominently displayed in readily visible locations and shall remain posted
				until the ACBM is removed.
C) The
				warning label shall state in print which is readily visible: Caution; Asbestos.
				Hazardous. Do Not Disturb Without Proper Training and Equipment.
7) Ensure that the management
				plans are available for inspection and notification of such availability has
				been provided as specified in the management plan.
8) Keep a copy of the plan in each school and
				district administrative office. Management plans shall be available for
				inspection by workers before work begins in any area of a school building. The
				management plans shall be available during normal business office hours,
				without cost or restriction, for inspection by representatives of the USEPA,
				the Department, teachers, other school personnel, parents and the general
				public. The LEA may charge a reasonable cost to make copies of management
				plans.
9) Maintain records as part
				of the management plan.
10) Ensure
				that each management plan contains a statement, signed by the individual
				designated by the LEA, which certifies that the LEA responsibilities have been
				met or will be met.
11) Ensure that
				three year reinspections are conducted in accordance with this Part and Section
				855.310(m).
12) Ensure that the three year school
				reinspection information form provided by the Department is submitted to the
				Department within 30 days from the reinspection.