Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-20 - Asbestos Emission Control › Section 3745-20-02 - Standards for demolition and renovation, facility inspection, and determination of applicability

Current through all regulations passed
			 and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Notwithstanding any other exclusion of
			 this rule, and to determine which requirements of this rule and of rules
			 3745-20-03 and
			 3745-20-04 of the Administrative
			 Code apply, each owner or operator of any demolition or renovation operation
			 shall have the affected facility or part of the facility where a demolition or
			 renovation operation will occur thoroughly inspected by a certified asbestos
			 hazard evaluation specialist, in accordance with paragraph
			 
								(B)(2) of
			 rule 3745-22-02 of the Administrative
			 Code prior to the commencement of the demolition or renovation for the presence
			 of asbestos, including category I and category II nonfriable
			 asbestos-containing material.
[Comment: Inspections pursuant to paragraph (A) of this rule
				are subject to paragraph (B)(2) of rule
				3745-22-02 of the Administrative
				Code which states in part that, " no person shall inspect, identify, detect, or assess asbestos
				containing materials, determine appropriate response actions unless
				the
				person is certified as an asbestos hazard evaluation specialist by the
				director ."]
(B) Rules 3745-20-03, 3745-20-04, and
			 3745-20-05 of the Administrative
			 Code apply to each owner or operator of a demolition or renovation operation as
			 follows:
(1) If the combined amount of
			 regulated asbestos-containing material is at least two hundred sixty linear
			 feet on pipes or at least one hundred sixty square feet on other facility
			 components, or at least thirty-five cubic feet off facility components where
			 the length or area could not be measured previously in a facility being
			 demolished, rules 3745-20-03, 3745-20-04, and
			 3745-20-05 of the Administrative
			 Code apply, except as provided in paragraph (B)(3) of this rule.
(2) If the combined amount of regulated
			 asbestos-containing material is less than two hundred sixty linear feet on
			 pipes and less than one hundred sixty square feet on other facility components,
			 and less than thirty-five cubic feet off facility components where the length
			 or area could not be measured previously or if there is no asbestos-containing
			 material in a facility being demolished, only the notification requirements of
			 paragraphs (A)(1), (A)(2), (A)(3)(a), and (A)(3) (d)(i) to (A)(3)(d)(iii), and
			 (A)(4)(a) to (A)(4)(h), (A)(4)(m) and (A)(4)(n), and (D)(1) to (D)(3), and (E)
			 of rule 3745-20-03 of the Administrative
			 Code apply.
(3) If the operation is
			 an emergency demolition, paragraphs (A)(1), (A)(2), (A)(3) (c), (A)(4) {except
			 (A)(4)(i)}, (B), and (C) of rule 3745-20-03, and paragraphs (A)(4) to (A)(7),
			 (B) and (D) of rule 3745-20-04, and rule
			 3745-20-05 of the Administrative
			 Code apply.
(4) In a facility being
			 renovated, including any individual nonscheduled renovation operation, rules
			 3745-20-03,
			 3745-20-04 and
			 3745-20-05 of the Administrative
			 Code apply if the combined amount of regulated asbestos-containing material to
			 be stripped, removed, dislodged, cut, drilled, or similarly disturbed is at
			 least two hundred sixty linear feet on pipes or at least one hundred sixty
			 square feet on other facility components, or at least thirty-five cubic feet
			 off facility components where the length or area could not be measured
			 previously.
(a) Paragraph (B)(4) of this rule
			 applies to planned renovation operations involving a series of individual
			 nonscheduled operations, that individually are exempt from this chapter, if the
			 combined amount of regulated asbestos-containing material to be removed or
			 
										stripped during a calendar year, January first through
			 December thirty-first, exceeds two hundred sixty linear feet on pipes or at
			 least one hundred sixty square feet on other facility components or thirty-five
			 cubic feet off facility components.
(b) Paragraph (B)(4) of this rule applies to
			 emergency renovation operations if the combined amount of regulated
			 asbestos-containing material to be removed or stripped as a result of the
			 sudden, unexpected event that necessitated the renovation exceeds two hundred
			 sixty linear feet on pipes or at least one hundred sixty square feet on
			 facility components or thirty- five cubic feet off facility
			 components.