Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 855 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN ILLINOIS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 855.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Abatement" means removal, encapsulation, enclosure and
				  repair of asbestos-containing building materials.
"Aggressive Sampling" means a method of sampling in which the
				  person collecting the air sample creates activity during the sampling period to
				  stir up settled dust and simulate the activity of that area of the
				  building.
"AHERA" means the Federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response
				  Act, 40 CFR Part 763, Subpart E.
"Air Sampling" means the process of measuring the fiber
				  content of a known volume of air collected during a specific period of
				  time.
"Air Sampling Professional" means the professional contracted
				  or employed by the building owner to conduct air sampling.
"Airlock" means a system for permitting entrance and exit
				  with minimum air movement between a contaminated area and an uncontaminated
				  area, consisting of two curtained doorways separated by a distance of at least
				  three feet such that one passes through one doorway into the airlock, allowing
				  the doorway sheeting to overlap and close off the opening before proceeding
				  through the second doorway, thereby preventing flow-through
				  contamination.
"Amended Water" means water to which a surfactant has been
				  added to improve penetration and reduce fiber release.
"ANSI" means the American National Standards Institute, 1430
				  Broadway, New York, New York 10018.
"Area Air Sampling" means any form of air sampling or
				  monitoring where the sampling device is placed at some stationary
				  location.
"F4Asbestos" means the abestiform varieties of chrysotile,
				  amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthrophyllite, and actinolite.F2 (Section 15
				  of the Commercial and Public Building Asbestos Abatement Act and Section 3 of
				  the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Asbestos Abatement Contractor" means any entity that
				  provides removal, enclosure, or encapsulation, or disposal of asbestos
				  containing materials.F2 (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public Building
				  Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Asbestos Containing Building Materials" or "ACBM" means
				  surfacing asbestos containing material or ACM, thermal system insulation ACM or
				  miscellaneous ACM that is found in or on interior structural members or other
				  parts of a school building.F2 (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public Building
				  Asbestos Abatement Act and Section 3 of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Asbestos Inspector" means an individual licensed by the
				  Department to perform inspections of schoolsF2 or commercial or public
				  buildings F4for the presence of asbestos containing materials.F2 (Section 3(w)
				  of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Asbestos Materials" means any material or product that
				  contains more than 1% asbestos.F2 (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public
				  Building Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Asbestos Supervisor" meansF2 a licensed F4asbestos
				  abatement contractor, foreman, or person designated as the asbestos abatement
				  contractor's representative who is responsible for the onsite supervision of
				  the removal, encapsulation, or enclosure of friable or nonfriable
				  asbestos-containing materials in a commercial or public building.F2 (Section 15
				  of the Commercial and Public Building Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Asbestos Worker" means an individual who cleans, removes,
				  encapsulates, encloses, hauls, or disposes of friable asbestos materials.F2
				  (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public Building Asbestos Abatement
				  Act)
"Asbestos-Containing Waste Material" means
				  asbestos-containing material or asbestos-contaminated objects requiring
				  disposal pursuant to Section
				  855.475.
"Asbestos Professional" means an individual who is licensed
				  by the Department to perform duties of contractor, inspector, management
				  planner, project designer, project manager, project supervisor, or air sampling
				  professional, as applicable.
"ASTM" means the American Society For Testing and Materials,
				  1916 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
"Authorized Visitor" means the building owner, or a person
				  designated by the building owner, and any representative of a regulatory or
				  other agency having jurisdiction over the project.
"Background Level Monitoring" means a method used to
				  determine airborne fiber concentrations inside and outside the work area prior
				  to starting an asbestos abatement project.
"Building Owner" means the person in whom legal title to the
				  premises is vested unless the premises are held in land trust, in which
				  instance the building owner means the person in whom beneficial title is
				  vested.
"Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H.)" means an industrial
				  hygienist certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
"Clean Room" means an uncontaminated area or room which is a
				  part of the worker decontamination enclosure with provisions for storage of
				  workers' street clothes and protective equipment.
"Clearance Air Monitoring" means the employment of aggressive
				  sampling techniques with a volume of air collected to determine the airborne
				  concentration of residual fibers upon conclusion of an asbestos abatement
				  project.
"F4Commercial or Public Building" means the interior space of
				  any building, except that the term does not include any residential apartment
				  building of fewer than 10 units or detached single family homes. The term
				  includes, but is not limited to: industrial and office buildings, residential
				  apartment buildings and condominiums of 10 or more dwelling units,
				  government-owned buildings, colleges, museums, airports, hospitals, churches,
				  schools, preschools, stores, warehouses, and factories. Interior space includes
				  exterior hallways connecting buildings, porticos, and mechanical systems used
				  to condition interior space.F2 (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public
				  Building Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Contained Area" means an enclosed work area in a building
				  where negative air pressure and HEPA filtration are used to contain airborne
				  asbestos fibers during removal, enclosure or encapsulation of ACBM during an
				  asbestos abatement project.
"Critical Barrier" means one or more layers of plastic sealed
				  over all openings into a work area or any other similarly placed physical
				  barrier sufficient to prevent airborne asbestos in a work area from migrating
				  to an adjacent area.
"Curtained Doorway" means a device which consists of at least
				  three overlapping sheets of plastic over an existing or temporarily framed
				  doorway. One sheet shall be secured at the top and left side, the second sheet
				  at the top and right side, and the third sheet at the top and left side. All
				  sheets shall have weights attached to the bottom to insure that the sheets hang
				  straight and maintain a seal over the doorway when not in use.
"Decontamination Enclosure System" means a series of
				  connected rooms, separated from each other by air locks, used for the
				  decontamination of workers, materials and equipment.
"Department" or "IDPH" means the Illinois Department of
				  Public Health.
"Designated Person" means a person designated by the local
				  education agency to ensure that the management plan has been properly
				  implemented.
"Emergency Abatement Operations" means an asbestos abatement
				  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, or is necessary to protect equipment from damage. This includes
				  operations necessitated by nonroutine failure of equipment.
"Encapsulant (sealant)" means a liquid material which can be
				  applied to asbestos-containing building material and which temporarily controls
				  the possible release of asbestos fibers from the material, either by creating a
				  membrane over the surface (bridging encapsulant) or by penetrating into the
				  material and binding its components together (penetrating encapsulant).
"F4Encapsulation" means the treatment of ACBM with a material
				  that surrounds or embeds asbestos fibers in an adhesive matrix that prevents
				  the release of fibers as the encapsulant creates a membrane over the surfaces
				  (bridging encapsulant) or penetrates the material and binds its components
				  together (penetrating encapsulant).F2 (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public
				  Building Asbestos Abatement Act and Section 3 of the Asbestos Abatement
				  Act)
"F4Enclosure" means the construction of airtight,F2
				  impervious, permanent F4walls and ceilings between the asbestos containing
				  material and the educational facilityF2 or building F4environment, or around
				  surfaces coated with asbestos containing materials, or any other appropriate
				  scientific procedure as determined by the Department that prevents the release
				  of asbestos.F2 (Section 3(k) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Equipment Decontamination Enclosure" means that portion of a
				  decontamination enclosure system designed for the controlled transfer of
				  materials and equipment, consisting of a wash room and a holding area.
"Equipment Room" means a contaminated area or room which is
				  part of the worker decontamination enclosure system with provisions for the
				  storage of contaminated clothing and equipment.
"Fixed Object" means a unit of equipment or furniture in the
				  work area which cannot be removed from the work area.
F4"Friable" when referring to material in a school buildingF2
				  or a commercial or public building F4means that the material, when dry, may be
				  crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure, and includes
				  previously nonfriable materials after such previously nonfriable material
				  becomes damaged to the extent that, when dry, it may be crumbled, pulverized,
				  or reduced to powder by hand pressureF2. The term includes nonfriable
				  asbestos-containing materials which will be subjected to sanding, grinding,
				  cutting, abrading, drilling, chipping, pulverizing, or other procedures likely
				  to reduce these materials to a powder or cause asbestos fibers to become
				  airborne. (Section 3(g) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Glovebag" means a manufactured device consisting of a
				  plastic bag (constructed of six-mil transparent plastic or equivalent), two
				  inward-projecting longsleeve rubber gloves, one inward-projecting waterwand
				  sleeve, an internal tool pouch, and an attached, labeled receptacle for
				  asbestos waste. The glovebag is constructed and installed in such a manner that
				  it surrounds the object or area to be decontaminated and contains all asbestos
				  fibers released during the removal process.
"Glovebag Technique" means a method for removing friable
				  asbestos-containing building material from heating, ventilation, air
				  conditioning (HVAC) ducts, short piping runs, valves, joints, elbows, and other
				  nonplanar surfaces.
"HEPA" means high efficiency particulate air.
"HEPA Filter" means a high efficiency particulate air filter
				  capable of trapping and retaining 99.97 percent of particles (asbestos fibers)
				  greater than 0.3 micrometers in mass median aerodynamic equivalent diameter,
				  with an efficiency designation of 100 under NIOSH, 42 CFR 84, Respiratory
				  Protective Devices.
"HEPA Vacuum Equipment" means vacuuming equipment with a high
				  efficiency particulate air filter system.
"Holding Area" means an area in the equipment decontamination
				  enclosure located between the wash room and an uncontaminated area.
"Homogeneous Area" means a substance that is uniform in
				  structure and composition throughout which comprises a unique sample area
				  (e.g., boiler insulation is a separate sample area, pipe joint insulation is a
				  separate sample area, corrugated pipe insulation is a separate sample
				  area).
"Industrial Building" means those portions of a building
				  (such as a factory or warehouse) primarily used in manufacturing or technically
				  productive enterprises, not generally or typically accessible to persons other
				  than workers, and used primarily in the production of power, the manufacture of
				  products, the mining of raw materials, and/or the storage of such products or
				  raw materials.
"F4Inspection" means an activity undertaken in a public or
				  commercial building to determine the presence or location, or to assess the
				  condition of, friable or nonfriable asbestos containing building material
				  (ACBM) or suspected ACBM, whether by visual or physical examination, or by
				  collecting samples of such material.F2 (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public
				  Building Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Local Educational Agency"F2 or F4"LEA" means:F2
F4Any local education agency as defined in Section 198 of the
				  Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 USC 3381 ).F2
F4The owner of any nonpublic, nonprofit elementary or
				  secondary school building.F2
F4The governing authority of any school operated under the
				  Defense Dependents' Education System provided for under the Defense
				  Department's Education Act of 1978 (
				  20 USC
				  921, et seq.).F2 (Section 3(d)(1), (2), and
				  (3) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Management Plan" means a plan developed for a local
				  educational agency for the management of asbestos in its school buildings
				  pursuant to the federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986F2 F4[ 15
				  USC Section 2601 et seq.]F2 F4and the regulations promulgated thereunder.F2
				  (Section 3(t) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Management Planner" means an individual licensed by the
				  Department to prepare management plans.F2 (Section 3(u) of the Asbestos
				  Abatement Act)
"Mini-Containment Area" means a contained area in which
				  glovebag procedures are conducted.
"Movable Object" means a unit of equipment or furniture in
				  the work area which can be removed from the work area.
"Negative Air Pressure Equipment" means a portable local
				  exhaust system equipped with HEPA filtration. The system shall be capable of
				  maintaining a constant, low velocity airflow from contaminated areas into
				  adjacent uncontaminated areas, creating a negative pressure differential
				  between the outside and inside of the work area.
"NESHAP" means the National Emission Standards for Hazardous
				  Air Pollutants ( 40 CFR Part 61 ).
"NIOSH" means the National Institute for Occupational Safety
				  and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - NIOSH, Building
				  J N.E., Room 3007, Atlanta, GA 30333.
F4"Nonfriable" means material in a school buildingF2 or
				  commercial or public building F4which, when dry, may not be crumbled,
				  pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressureF2. (Section 3(s) of the
				  Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Operations and Maintenance" means a program of work
				  practices to maintain friable and nonfriable ACBM in good condition, ensure
				  clean up of asbestos fibers previously released, and prevent further release by
				  minimizing and controlling friable ACBM disturbance or damage.
"OSHA" means the Occupational Safety and Health
				  Administration, 200 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC 20210.
"Outside Air" means the air outside the work area.
"Person" means any individual, group of individuals,
				  association, trust, partnership, corporation, person doing business under an
				  assumed name, asbestos professional, asbestos worker, public school district,
				  private school or any other entity.
"Personal Air Monitoring" means a method used to determine
				  employees' exposure to airborne fibers. The sample is collected outside the
				  respirator in the worker's breathing zone. This form of sampling is required by
				  the OSHA asbestos standards (
				  29 CFR
				  1910.1001 and
				  1926.1101 ).
"Plasticize" means to cover floors and walls with plastic
				  sheeting as herein specified or by using spray plastics (as permitted by the
				  Department through a variance request).
"Project" means removal, encapsulation, enclosure or repair
				  of more than three linear feet or three square feet of asbestos-containing
				  building materials.
"Project Activities" means activities taking place when the
				  contractor or a designee and the contractor's supplies and equipment for
				  asbestos abatement are present at the abatement site.
"Project Design" means the preparation of documents relating
				  to the asbestos project, which may include but are not limited to, plans,
				  drawings and specifications that recommend or establish the scope of work,
				  standards of workmanship, equipment specifications or utilization, construction
				  standards or specifications, alternative response action courses of action,
				  and/or response action health and safety controls.
"F4Project Designer" means an individual licensed by the
				  Department to design response actions for school buildingsF2 or commercial or
				  public buildings. (Section 3(v) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Project Manager" means an individual licensed by the
				  Department and designated as the building owner's representative, who is
				  responsible for overseeing asbestos abatement project activities.
"Remote Decontamination Enclosure System" means a
				  decontamination enclosure system which is not connected to the contained
				  area.
"Removal" means the intentional detachment of any
				  asbestos-containing building materials from surfaces or components of a
				  building or taking out building components.
"Repair" means rewrapping or taping damaged pipe and boiler
				  insulation and patching of surface materials.
"Resilient Floor Covering Materials" means
				  asbestos-containing floor tile (including asphalt and vinyl floor tile), sheet
				  vinyl flooring, and floor adhesives or mastics.
"F4Response Action" means a method, including removal,
				  encapsulation, enclosure, repair, operations and maintenance, that protects
				  human health and the environment from friable ACBM.F2 (Section 15 of the
				  Commercial and Public Building Asbestos Abatement Act and Section 3 of the
				  Asbestos Abatement Act)
"F4Response Action Contractor" means any entity that engages
				  in response action services for any schoolF2 or commercial or public building.
				  (Section 3(i) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
F4"Response Action Services" means the service of designing
				  and conducting removal, encapsulation, enclosure, repair, or operations and
				  maintenance of friable asbestos-containing building materials, inspection of
				  public or commercial buildingsF2 or school buildings, F4and inspection of
				  asbestos-containingF2 building F4materials. The term does not include the
				  design or conducting of response actions that involve removal or possible
				  disturbance of an amount of asbestos-containing building material comprising
				  less thanF2 three F4square feet,F2 or less than three linear feet of
				  asbestos-containing insulation on pipes or F4other friable asbestos-containing
				  building materialF2. (Section 15 of the Commercial and Public Building Asbestos
				  Abatement Act)
"F4School" means any school district or public, private or
				  nonpublic day or residential educational institution that provides elementary
				  or secondary education for grade 12 or under.F2 (Section 3(c) of the Asbestos
				  Abatement Act)
"School Board" means the corporate body established by law to
				  govern the school district.
"F4School Building" means:F2
F4Any structure suitable for use as a classroom, including a
				  school facility such as a laboratory, library, school eating facility, or
				  facility used for the preparation of food.F2
F4Any gymnasium or other facility which is specially designed
				  for athletic or recreational activities for an academic course in physical
				  education.F2
F4Any other facility used for the instruction or housing of
				  students or for the administration of educational or research
				  programs.F2
F4Any maintenance, storage, or utility facility, including
				  any hallway essential to the operation of any facility described in this
				  definition of "school building" underF2 the preceding three paragraphs.
F4Any portico or covered exterior hallway or
				  walkway.F2
F4Any exterior portion of a mechanical system used to
				  condition interior space.F2 (Section (q)(1) through (6) of the Asbestos
				  Abatement Act)
F4"School Personnel" means any employee of a school.F2
				  (Section 3(o) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Shall" means the stated provision is mandatory.
"Shower Room" means a room between the clean room and the
				  equipment room in the worker decontamination enclosure with hot and cold
				  running water controllable at the tap and arranged for complete showering
				  during decontamination.
"Shut Down and Lock Out Power" means to switch off all
				  electrical circuit breakers serving power or lighting circuits which run to, or
				  through, the contained area. Label circuit breakers with tape over the breakers
				  with the notation "DANGER, circuit being worked on". Lock the electrical door
				  or panel with separate locks, one lock and key for the supervisor and one lock
				  and key for the project manager. No other person shall have keyed access to the
				  electrical power in the contained area.
"Staging Area" means the area near the equipment
				  decontamination enclosure designated for temporary storage of containerized
				  waste prior to removal from the work area.
"Structural Member" means any load-supporting member of a
				  facility, such as beams and load-supporting walls, or any nonload-supporting
				  member, such as ceilings and nonload-supporting walls.
"F4Student" means any student enrolled in a school.F2
				  (Section 3(p) of the Asbestos Abatement Act)
"Surfactant" means a chemical wetting agent that, when added
				  to water, will improve penetration and reduce fiber release.
"USEPA" means the Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M
				  Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20460.
"Visible Emissions" means any emissions containing
				  particulate asbestos material that are visually detectable without the aid of
				  instruments.
"Wash Room" means a room between the contained area and the
				  holding area in the equipment decontamination enclosure system where equipment
				  and waste containers are wet cleaned or HEPA vacuumed prior to disposal or
				  removal from the work area.
"Wet Cleaning" means the process of eliminating asbestos
				  contamination from building surfaces and objects by using cloths, mops, or
				  other cleaning tools which have been dampened with water, and by afterward
				  disposing of these cleaning tools as asbestos contaminated waste.
"Work Area" means designated rooms, spaces, or areas where
				  any aspect of an abatement project is being conducted.
"Worker Decontamination Enclosure System" means that portion
				  of a decontamination enclosure system designed for controlled passage of
				  workers, other personnel and authorized visitors, consisting of a clean room, a
				  shower room, and an equipment room separated from each other by airlocks and
				  curtained doorways.