Florida Administrative Code › 62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › 62 - Departmental › Chapter 62-257 - ASBESTOS PROGRAM › Section 62-257.200 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) "Asbestos" means the asbestiform
				varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite),
				cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophyllite, and actinolite-tremolite and includes
				trade acronyms products such as amosite.
(2) "Asbestos-containing materials, " ACM,
				means any materials which contain more than one percent asbestos as determined
				by Polarized Light Microscopy.
(3)
				"Asbestos removal project" means a renovation or demolition operation in a
				facility that involves the removal of a threshold amount of regulated
				asbestos-containing material.
(4)
				"Category I Nonfriable Asbestos-Containing Material (ACM)" means
				asbestos-containing packings, gaskets, resilient floor covering, and asphalt
				roofing products containing more than 1 percent asbestos as determined using
				the method specified in Appendix A, Subpart F,   40 C.F.R. Part 763, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy.
(5)
				"Category II Nonfriable ACM" means any material, excluding Category I
				Nonfriable ACM, containing more than 1 percent asbestos as determined using the
				methods specified in Appendix A, Subpart F, 40 C.F.R. Part 763, Section 1,
				Polarized Light Microscopy, that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or
				reduced to powder by hand pressure.
(6) "Department" means the Florida Department
				of Environmental Protection.
(7)
				"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.
(8) "Emergency renovation operation" means a
				renovation operation that was not planned but results from a sudden, unexpected
				event that, if not immediately attended to, presents a safety or public health
				hazard, is necessary to protect equipment from damage, or is necessary to avoid
				imposing an unreasonable financial burden. This term includes operations
				necessitated by nonroutine failures of equipment.
(9) "Facility" is as defined in
				40 C.F.R.
				61.141, adopted and incorporated by reference
				in Rule  62-204.800, F.A.C.
(10) "Friable Asbestos Material" means any
				material containing more than 1 percent asbestos as determined using the method
				specified in Appendix A, Subpart F,  40 C.F.R. Part 763 Section 1, Polarized
				Light Microscopy that, when dry, can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to
				powder by hand pressure. If the asbestos content is less than 10 percent as
				determined by a method other than point counting by Polarized Light Microscopy
				(PLM), verify the asbestos content by point counting using PLM.
(11) "Local Air Program, " for purposes of
				Chapter 62-257, F.A.C., only, means a county air pollution control program
				which meets the criteria of Section
				 403.182(1),
				F.S.
(12) "Nonscheduled renovation
				operation" means a renovation operation necessitated by the routine failure of
				equipment, which is expected to occur within a given period based on past
				operating experience, but for which an exact date cannot be
				predicted.
(13) "Ordered
				demolition" means a demolition under an order of a State or local government
				agency, issued because the facility is structurally unsound and in danger of
				imminent collapse.
(14) "Owner or
				operator" means any person or entity who owns, leases, operates, controls, or
				supervises either the renovation or demolition operation or the site of the
				renovation or demolition operation.
(15) "Planned renovation operation" means a
				renovation operation, or a number of such operations, in which regulated
				asbestos-containing material will be removed or stripped within a given period
				of time and that can be predicted. Individual nonscheduled operations are
				included if a number of such operations can be predicted to occur during a
				given period of time based on operating experience.
(16) "Renovation" means the alteration in any
				way of a facility or of one or more facility components. Operations in which
				load-supporting structural members are wrecked or taken out are
				demolitions.
(17) "Regulated
				Asbestos-Containing Material (RACM)" means:
(a) Friable asbestos material;
(b) Category I nonfriable ACM that has become
				friable;
(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 become crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder or
				has a high probability of becoming crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder
				by the forces expected to act on the material in the course of demolition or
				renovation operations regulated by  40 C.F.R. Part 61, Subpart M, as adopted in
				this chapter.