Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-20 - Asbestos Emission Control › Section 3745-20-01 - Definitions and incorporation by reference

Current through all
			 regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
[Comment: For dates of non-regulatory government publications,
				publications of recognized organizations and associations, federal rules, and
				federal statutory provisions referenced in this rule, please see paragraph
				
								(AA) of
				this rule, "Referenced materials."]
Except as otherwise provided in this
				rule, the definitions in rule
				3745-15-01 of the Administrative
				Code apply to this chapter.
The following definitions apply
				exclusively to this chapter:
(A)
(1) "Active waste
			 disposal site" means any disposal site of asbestos materials other than an
			 inactive disposal site.
(2)
			 "Adequately wet" means sufficiently mix or penetrate with liquid to prevent the
			 release of particulates. If visible emissions are observed coming from
			 asbestos-containing material, then that material has not been adequately
			 wetted. However, the absence of visible emissions is not sufficient evidence of
			 being adequately wet.
(3) "Annual
			 notification" means a notification submitted in order to notify for planned
			 renovation which include nonscheduled operations that individually are exempt
			 from this chapter, but when combined, exceeds one hundred sixty square feet,
			 two hundred sixty linear feet or is 
									thirty-five cubic feet of regulated asbestos
			 containing material from facility components during a calendar year, January
			 first to December thirty-first.
(4)
			 "Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile),
			 riebeckite (crocidolite), cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophyllite, and
			 actinolite-tremolite, as determined using the method specified in 40 CFR, Part
			 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy
			 (PLM).
(5) "Asbestos-containing
			 waste materials" means mill tailings or any waste that contains commercial
			 asbestos and is generated by a source subject to the provisions of this
			 chapter. This term includes filters from control devices, friable
			 asbestos-containing material, materials contaminated with asbestos including
			 disposable equipment and clothing and bags or other similar packaging
			 contaminated with commercial asbestos. As applied to demolition and renovation
			 operations, this term also includes regulated asbestos-containing material
			 waste, regulated asbestos contaminated debris, and materials contaminated with
			 asbestos including disposable equipment and clothing (see asbestos-contaminated
			 debris).
(6)
									"
			 Asbestos-contaminated debris" means any materials contaminated or covered with
			 asbestos containing waste material. For demolition and renovation operations,
			 this term includes construction and demolition debris that has become mingled
			 with regulated asbestos-containing material.
(7) "Asbestos material" means asbestos or any
			 material containing asbestos.
(8)
			 "Asbestos mill" means any facility engaged in converting, or in any
			 intermediate step in converting, asbestos ore into commercial asbestos. Outside
			 storage of asbestos material is not considered a part of the asbestos
			 mill.
(9) "Asbestos tailings" means
			 any solid waste that contains asbestos and is a product of asbestos mining or
			 milling operations.
(10) "Asbestos
			 waste from control devices" means any waste material that contains asbestos and
			 is collected by a pollution control device.