New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 50 - STANDARDS FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENT CERTIFICATION AND FOR LICENSURE OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 8:50-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) As used in this
				chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meanings established by the
				Department of Community Affairs pursuant to
				52:27D-130 and rules promulgated
				pursuant thereto at N.J.A.C. 5:23, particularly at 5:23-1.4, unless the context
				clearly indicates otherwise: "alteration," "building," "construction permit,"
				"group," "reconstruction," "repair," "structure" and "use group."
(b) As used in this chapter, the following words
				and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				otherwise:
"Adjacent business" means a business that is co-located next to a
				  child care center or educational facility.
"AIHA" means the American Industrial Hygiene Association, for
				  which the contact information is AIHA, 2700 Prosperity Ave., Suite 250, Fairfax, VA
				  22031-4340, (703) 849-8888, telefacsimile (703) 207-3561,
www.aiha.org
.
1. A searchable list of laboratories accredited by the AIHA is
				  available at
http://www.aiha.org/Content/LQAP/accred/AccreditedLabs.htm
.
1. For non-cancer health effects, AT is expressed as 24 hours per
				  day per year multiplied by 365 (days per year).
2. For cancer health effects, AT is expressed as a lifetime
				  estimate of 70 years.
"Body weight" or "BW" means the weight of a human being in
				  kilograms (kg).
"Cancer slope factor" or "CPSi" means the slope of a dose-response
				  curve obtained from animal and/or human cancer studies expressed as the inverse of
				  the daily dose for the inhalation exposure pathway.
"Child care center" means a facility required to obtain licensure
				  pursuant to the Child Care Center Licensing Act, P.L. 1983, c. 492,
				  30:5B-1 et seq.
"Co-located" means any building sited and joined by a contiguous
				  roof.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health and Senior
				  Services or his or her designee.
"Concentration" means the amount of a substance present in a
				  certain amount of soil, water, air, food, blood, hair, urine, breath or any other
				  media.
"Contaminant" means a substance that is either present in an
				  environment where it does not belong or is present at levels that might cause
				  harmful, that is, adverse, health effects.
"Conversion" means the performance of work for the purpose of,
				  and/or that would result in, the reclassification of a building from one use group
				  to another.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
				  Services.
"Dose-response curve" means a graphical relationship between a
				  dose, that is, an amount of exposure to a substance, and a response, that is, a
				  resulting change in body function or health.
"Dust exposure factor" means the frequency, duration and time of
				  exposure to contaminated dust.
"Educational facility" means a "public school" and a "private
				  school" as 18A:1-1 defines those terms and a
				  charter school pursuant to
				  18A:36A-1 et seq. and the rules
				  promulgated thereunder at N.J.A.C. 6A:11, particularly 6A:11-1.2.
"Exposure duration" or "ED" means the length of time in years
				  during which a person is exposed to a potentially hazardous substance.
"Exposure frequency" or "EF" means the average amount of time per
				  year during which a person is exposed to a potentially hazardous substance, usually
				  expressed in hours per day.
"Exposure time" or "ET" means the amount of time, expressed in
				  hours per day, during which a person is exposed to a potentially hazardous
				  substance.
"Facility" means a building at which a child care center or an
				  educational facility is located.
"Field Sampling Procedures Manual" means the Field Sampling
				  Procedures Manual issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
				  (August 2005), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented,
				  available at
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/srp/guidance/fspm
.
"Indoor environmental consultant" means a business entity licensed
				  by the Department to conduct an indoor environmental health assessment in child care
				  centers or educational facilities.
"Indoor environmental health assessment" or "IEHA" means an
				  evaluation and assessment of indoor environment conducted by a licensed indoor
				  environmental consultant.
"Intake rate" or "IR" means the amount of a contaminated medium,
				  such as air, water or soil, to which a person is exposed during a specified period,
				  usually expressed in cubic meters per day, that is, m[LESS THAN]3[GREATER
				  THAN]/day.
"Lifetime excess cancer risk" or "LECR" means the product of the
				  calculated daily exposure dose and the cancer slope factor.
"Maximum contaminant level" or "MCL" means a site-specific maximum
				  contaminant level the Department determines pursuant to
				  8:50-4.1.
"Method" means one of the methods below contained in the
				  Compendium of Methods for the Determination of Toxic Organic Compounds in Ambient
				  Air - Second Edition (EPA/625/R-96/010b) (January 1999), incorporated herein by
				  reference, as amended and supplemented, by the Center for Environmental Research
				  Information (CERI), National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Office of Research
				  and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, available
				  at
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/files/ambient/airtox/tocomp99.pdf
,
				  and from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road,
				  Springfield, VA 22161, (703) 487-4650, telefacsimile (703) 321-8547,
				  Info@ntis.fedworld.gov,
http://www.ntis.gov
.
1. "Method TO-15" means Compendium Method TO-15 Determination Of
				  Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) In Air Collected In Specially-Prepared Canisters
				  And Analyzed By Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), (January 1999),
				  incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by the CERI,
				  available at
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/files/ambient/airtox/to-15r.pdf
,
				  and from the NTIS.
2. "Method TO-17" means Compendium Method TO-17 Determination of
				  Volatile Organic Compounds in Ambient Air Using Active Sampling Onto Sorbent Tubes
				  (January 1999), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by
				  the CERI, available at
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/files/ambient/airtox/to-17r.pdf
,
				  and from the NTIS.
"NVLAP" means the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation
				  Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for which the contact
				  information is National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program, Standards
				  Services Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive,
				  Stop 2140, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2140, (301) 975-4016, telefacsimile (301)
				  926-2884,
http://ts.nist.gov/standards/accreditation/index.cfm
.
1. A searchable list of laboratories accredited by the NVLAP is
				  available at
http://ts.nist.gov/Standards/scopes/programs.htm
.
"Proximate business" means a building or an improved or unimproved
				  lot, as to which it is reasonably foreseeable that conditions and/or past or present
				  operations thereat could have an effect on the indoor environment of a child care
				  center or an educational facility.
"Radius search" means a search for sites that are of environmental
				  concern within a 400-foot radius around the location of a child care center.
"Reference dose" or "RfD" means an estimate of daily human
				  exposure to a potentially hazardous substance that is not likely to cause adverse
				  human health effects, expressed in milligrams of a substance per kilogram of body
				  weight per day, that is, mg/kg/day.
"Target hazard quotient" or "THQ" means a comparison of a dose to
				  a reference dose, expressed as a ratio of the dose to the reference dose.
"Vapor Intrusion Guidance" means the New Jersey Department of
				  Environmental Protection Vapor Intrusion Guidance (October 2005), incorporated
				  herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by the New Jersey Department of
				  Environmental Protection, available at
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/srp/guidance/vaporintrusion/vig.htm
and by contacting the Site Remediation Program, NJ Department of Environmental
				  Protection, 401 E. State Street, 6th Floor, East Wing, PO Box 028, Trenton, NJ
				  08625-0028, (609) 292-1250, telefacsimile (609) 777-1914.