California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 6 - Abrasive Blasting › Article 1 - General Provisions › Section 92000 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purposes of this subchapter:
(a) "Abrasives" means any material used in
					 abrasive blasting operations including but not limited to sand, slag, steel
					 shot, garnet or walnut shells.
(b)
					 "Abrasive blasting" means the operation of cleaning or preparing a surface by
					 forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against the
					 surface.
(c) "Abrasive blasting
					 equipment" means any equipment utilized in abrasive blasting
					 operations.
(d) "Air contaminant"
					 includes smoke, charred paper, dust, soot, grime, carbon, fumes, gases, odors,
					 particulate matter, acids or any combination thereof.
(e) "Certified abrasive" means an abrasive
					 which has been certified by the Air Resources Board (ARB) in accordance with
					 section 92530.
(f) "Cut-point for fineness" means the
					 smallest United States Standard Sieve size through which no more than one
					 percent by weight of abrasive material will pass before blasting when tested in
					 accordance with California Test method No. 202-G, dated July 1, 1982.
(g) "Hydroblasting" means any abrasive
					 blasting using high pressure liquid as the propelling force.
(h) "Multiple nozzles" means more than one
					 nozzle being used to abrasive blast the same surface in such close proximity
					 that their separate plumes are indistinguishable.
(i) "Permanent building" means a building
					 which is used, in whole or in part, for sandblasting operations.
(j) "Person" means any individual, firm,
					 association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, company,
					 contractor, supplier, installer, user or owner, or any state or local
					 governmental agency or public district or any officer or employee thereof.
					 "Person" also means the United States Government or its agencies to the extent
					 authorized by federal law.
(k)
					 "Sandblasting" means abrasive blasting.
(l) "Source" means the impact surface from
					 any single abrasive blasting nozzle.
(m) "Steel or iron shot/grit" means abrasives
					 which meet either the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recommended
					 practices J827 and J444 or Steel Founders' Society of America Standards 21-68
					 or 20T-66, as those practices and standards existed on 2-24-84.
(n) "Sweep abrasive blasting" means a method
					 of cleanup performed in order to achieve surface uniformity or impurity removal
					 after wet blasting, hydroblasting, or vacuum blasting operations.
(o) "Vacuum blasting" means any abrasive
					 blasting in which the spent abrasive, surface material, and dust are
					 immediately collected by a vacuum device.
(p) "Wet abrasive blasting" means any
					 abrasive blasting using compressed air as the propelling force, which in the
					 judgment of the air pollution control officer uses an amount of water adequate
					 to minimize the plume.
1. New
						subchapter 6 (sections
						92000-92520, not consecutive)
						filed 8-23-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No.
						34).
2. Amendment filed 3-11-76; effective thirtieth day thereafter
						(Register 76, No. 11).
3. Amendment of NOTE filed 3-18-77; effective
						thirtieth day thereafter (Register 77, No. 12).
4. Amendment of NOTE
						filed 10-18-82; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 82, No.
						43).
5. Amendment filed 8-30-84; effective thirtieth day thereafter
						(Register 84, No. 35).
6. Repealer of subsections (e), (f), (g), (j)
						and (o); new subsections (e), (f), (i) and (n); renumbering of subsections
						(h)-(i) to (g)-(h), (k)-(n) to (j)-(m), and subsection (p) to subsection (o);
						and amendment and renumbering of subsection (q) to (p) filed 5-1-91; operative
						5-31-91 (Register 91, No. 24).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  39600
						  and
						  39601,
						  Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
						  41900,
						  41902,
						  41904
						  and
						  41905,
						  Health and Safety Code.