Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Subtitle 1 - GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL PROVISIONS › Chapter 503 - FEES FOR ASBESTOS REMOVAL AND CERTIFICATION › Section 11-503-1 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"ACM" means asbestos-containing material.
"Asbestos-containing material" means any material or product
				  which contains more than one per cent asbestos.
"Asbestos contractor" means any person or contracting firm
				  possessing a valid asbestos contractor license pursuant to chapter 16-77,
				  Hawaii Administrative Rules.
"Category I nonfriable ACM" means asbestos-containing
				  packings, gaskets, resilient floor covering, and asphalt roofing products
				  containing more than one per cent asbestos as determined using the method
				  specified in 40 CFR Part 763, Subpart F, Appendix A, Section I, as referenced
				  in section
				  11-501-3.
"Category II nonfriable ACM" means any material, excluding
				  category I nonfriable ACM, containing more than one per cent asbestos as
				  determined using the methods specified in 40 CFR Part 763, Subpart F, Appendix
				  A, Section I, as referenced in section
				  11-501-3, that, when dry, cannot
				  be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
"Contractor/Supervisor" means any abatement worker who has
				  been certified by the department under these rules to ensure that abatement
				  projects are conducted in accordance with Federal and State
				  requirements.
"Demolition" means the wrecking, taking out or intentional
				  burning of any load-supporting structural member of a facility together with
				  any related handling operations.
"Department" means the department of health, State of
				  Hawaii.
"Director" means the director of the department of health,
				  State of Hawaii, or the director's duly authorized agent.
"Facility" means any institutional, commercial, public,
				  industrial, or residential structure, installation, or building (including any
				  structure, installation, or building containing condominiums or individual
				  dwelling units operated as a residential cooperative, but excluding residences
				  or residential cooperatives that have four or fewer total dwelling units); any
				  ship; and any active or inactive waste disposal site. For purposes of this
				  definition, any building, structure, or installation that contains a loft used
				  as a dwelling is not considered a residential structure, installation, or
				  building. Any structure, installation, or building that was previously subject
				  to federal requirements pursuant to 40 CFR Part 61, Subpart M, is not excluded,
				  regardless of its current use or function.
"Facility component" means any part of a facility, including
				  equipment, boilers, pipes, furnaces, ducts, tanks, reactors, turbines, or
				  structural members.
"Friable asbestos material" means any material containing
				  more than one per cent asbestos as determined using the method specified in 40
				  CFR Part 763, Subpart F, Appendix A, Section I, as referenced in section
				  11-501-3, that, when dry, can be
				  crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure. These include
				  sprayed-on or troweled-on fireproofing, acoustic ceiling material and ceiling
				  tiles, linoleum and linoleum backing, thermal system insulation,
				  non-asphalt-saturated roofing felts, asbestos-containing paper, and joint
				  compound. Materials that have been rendered to a crumbled, pulverized, or
				  powdered state, when dry, by crushing, sanding, sawing, shot-blasting, or other
				  demolition or renovation techniques are friable, which include category I
				  non-friable asbestos containing material. Materials in which the asbestos
				  fibers are bound into a matrix that have been rendered to a crumbled,
				  pulverized, or powdered state, when dry, by crushing, sanding, sawing,
				  shot-blasting, severe weathering, or other demolition or renovation techniques
				  are friable, which include category II nonfriable ACM.
"Inspector" means a person certified to identify
				  asbestos-containing building material and to assess its physical
				  condition.
"Management planner" means any person certified to use data
				  gathered by inspectors to assess the current or potential hazard posed by
				  asbestos-containing material, to determine the appropriate response actions,
				  and to develop a schedule for implementing these response actions.
"Notification" means submittal of a notice of intent to
				  conduct demolition or renovation in facilities pursuant to section
				  11-501-7. For purposes of this
				  definition, a "notification" shall be limited to each individual project and
				  shall extend no further than the premise boundaries.
"Project designer" means a person who is certified to
				  determine how asbestos abatement work should be conducted.
"Project monitor" means a person who is certified to take
				  air clearance samples, perform visual inspections of the job-site and ensure
				  compliance with specifications and regulations.
"RACM" means regulated asbestos-containing material.
"Regulated asbestos-containing material" means:
(1) Friable asbestos material;
(2) Category I nonfriable ACM that has become friable;
(3) Category I nonfriable ACM that will be or has been
				  subjected to sanding, drilling, grinding, cutting, abrading, or any other
				  activity that may render the material friable; or
(4) Category II nonfriable ACM that may become or has become
				  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 this
				  chapter.
"Renovation" means altering a facility of one or more
				  facility components in any way, including the stripping or removal of RACM from
				  a facility component. Operations in which load-supporting structural members
				  are wrecked or taken out are demolitions.
"Removal" means to take out RACM or facility components that
				  contain or are covered with RACM from any facility.
"Training provider" means one who is accredited to provide
				  training courses pursuant to Chapter 504.
"Worker" means any person who is certified by the department
				  to engage in abatement activities.