Virginia Administrative Code › Title 16 - LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT › Agency 25 - SAFETY AND HEALTH CODES BOARD › Chapter 20 - REGULATION CONCERNING LICENSED ASBESTOS CONTRACTOR NOTIFICATION, ASBESTOS PROJECT PERMITS, AND PERMIT FEES › Section 16VAC25-20-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Activity" means from the set-up of negative air containment
				  through the breakdown of that containment. Work within a single structure or
				  building shall be considered as one "activity" so long as such work is not
				  interrupted except for weekends, holidays, or delays due to inclement weather.
				  Where containment is not required, all work within single structure or building
				  shall be considered as one "activity."
"Asbestos" means any material containing more than 1.0%
				  asbestos by area as determined by microscopy.
"Asbestos contractor's license" means an authorization issued
				  by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation permitting a
				  person to enter into contracts to perform an asbestos abatement project.
"Asbestos project" means an activity involving job set-up for
				  containment, removal, encapsulation, enclosure, encasement, renovation, repair,
				  construction or alteration of an asbestos-containing material. An asbestos
				  project or asbestos abatement project shall not include nonfriable
				  asbestos-containing roofing, flooring and siding material that when installed,
				  encapsulated or removed does not become friable.
"Asbestos supervisor" means any person so designated by an
				  asbestos contractor who provides on-site supervision and direction to the
				  workers engaged in asbestos projects.
"Building" means a combination of any materials, whether
				  portable or fixed including part or parts and fixed equipment of them, that
				  forms a structure for use or occupancy by persons or property.
"Construction" means all the on-site work done in building or
				  altering structures from land clearance through completion, including
				  excavation, erection, and the assembly and installation of components and
				  equipment.
"Department" means the Department of Labor and
				  Industry.
"Friable" means that the material when dry, may be crumbled,
				  pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure and includes previously
				  nonfriable material after such previously nonfriable material becomes damaged
				  to the extent that when dry it may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to
				  powder by hand pressure.
"Person" means a corporation, partnership, sole
				  proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, or any other
				  individual or entity.
"Residential buildings" means site-built homes, modular
				  homes, condominium units, mobile homes, manufactured housing, and duplexes, or
				  other multi-unit dwelling consisting of four units or less which are currently
				  in use or intended for use only for residential purposes. Demolitions of any of
				  the above structures that are to be replaced by other than a residential
				  building shall not fall within this definition.
"RFS contractor's license" means an authorization issued by
				  the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation permitting a person
				  to enter into contracts to install, remove or encapsulate nonfriable
				  asbestos-containing roofing, flooring, and siding materials.
"Site" means a specific geographically contiguous area with
				  defined limits owned by a single entity on which asbestos removal will
				  occur.
"Structure" means an assembly of materials, or part or parts
				  of them, forming a construction.
Statutory Authority
§§ 40.1-22 and 40.1-51.20 of the Code of
					 Virginia.