Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0002 - Air Quality › Chapter 3 - General Emission Standards › Section 3-8 - Emission Standards of Asbestos for Demolition, Renovation, Manufacturing, Spraying and Fabricating

Current through July 13, 2024
(a)
				Applicability. The provisions of this section are applicable to those sources
				specified in paragraphs (g) through (n), (q), and (r).
(b) Definitions. All terms that are used in
				this section and are not defined below are given the same meaning as in Chapter
				1, Section  3  of these regulations.
"Active waste disposal site"
means any disposal site other than an inactive site.
"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.
"Asbestos"
means the
				  asbestiform varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite),
				  cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophyllite, and actinolite-tremolite.
"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 section. This term includes filters from control devices, friable asbestos
				  waste material, 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 and materials
				  contaminated with asbestos including disposable equipment and clothing.
"Asbestos tailings"
means any
				  solid waste that contains asbestos and is a product of asbestos mining or
				  milling operations.
"Asbestos waste from control
				  devices"
means any waste material that contains asbestos and is
				  collected by a pollution control device.
"Category I nonfriable asbestos-containing
				  material (ACM)"
means asbestos-containing packings, gaskets,
				  resilient floor covering, and asphalt roofing products containing more than 1
				  percent asbestos as determined using the method specified in  40 CFR Part 763
				   Appendix E, Section  1, Polarized Light Microscopy.
"Category II nonfriable ACM"
means any material, excluding Category I nonfriable ACM, containing more than 1
				  percent asbestos as determined using the methods specified in  40 CFR Part 763
				   Appendix E, Section  1, Polarized Light Microscopy, that, when dry, cannot be
				  crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
"Commercial asbestos"
means any
				  material containing asbestos that is extracted from ore and has value because
				  of its asbestos content.
"Cutting"
means to penetrate
				  with a sharp-edged instrument and includes sawing, but does not include
				  shearing, slicing, or punching.
"Demolition"
means the wrecking
				  or taking out of any load-supporting structural member of a facility together
				  with any related handling operations or the intentional burning of any
				  facility.
"Emergency renovation
				  operation"
means a renovation operation that was not planned
				  but results from a sudden, unexpected event that, if not immediately attended
				  to, presents a safety or public health hazard, is necessary to protect
				  equipment from damage, or is necessary to avoid imposing an unreasonable
				  financial burden. This term includes operations necessitated by nonroutine
				  failures of equipment.
"Fabricating"
means any
				  processing (e.g., cutting, sawing, drilling) of a manufactured product that
				  contains commercial asbestos, with the exception of processing at temporary
				  sites (field fabricating) for the construction or restoration of facilities. In
				  the case of friction products, fabricating includes bonding, debonding,
				  grinding, sawing, drilling, or other similar operations performed as part of
				  fabricating.
"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 residential buildings having four or fewer dwelling
				  units); any ship; and any active or inactive waste disposal site. For the
				  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 this section is not excluded, regardless of its current
				  use or function.
"Facility component"
means any
				  part of a facility including equipment.
"Friable asbestos material"
means any material containing more than 1 percent asbestos as determined using
				  the method specified in  40 CFR Part 763  Appendix E, Section  1, Polarized Light
				  Microscopy, that, when dry, can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder
				  by hand pressure. If the asbestos content is less than 10 percent as determined
				  by a method other than point counting by polarized light microscopy (PLM),
				  verify the asbestos content by point counting using PLM.
"Fugitive source"
means any
				  source of emissions not controlled by an air pollution control device.
"Glove bag"
means a sealed
				  compartment with attached inner gloves used for the handling of
				  asbestos-containing materials. Properly installed and used, glove bags provide
				  a small work area enclosure typically used for small-scale asbestos stripping
				  operations. Information on glove-bag installation, equipment and supplies, and
				  work practices is contained in the Occupational Safety and Health
				  Administration's (OSHA's) final rule on occupational exposure to asbestos (29 CFR §
										1926.1101(g)(5)(ii)).
"Grinding"
means to reduce to
				  powder or small fragments and includes mechanical chipping or drilling.
"In poor condition"
means the
				  binding of the material is losing its integrity as indicated by peeling,
				  cracking, or crumbling of the material.
"Inactive waste disposal site"
means any disposal site or portion of it where additional asbestos-containing
				  waste material has not been deposited within the past year.
"Installation"
means any
				  building or structure or any group of buildings or structures at a single
				  demolition or renovation site that are under the control of the same owner or
				  operator (or owner or operator under common control).
"Leak-tight"
means that solids
				  or liquids cannot escape or spill out. It also means dust-tight.
"Malfunction"
means any sudden
				  and unavoidable failure of air pollution control equipment or process equipment
				  or of a process to operate in a normal or usual manner so that emissions of
				  asbestos are increased. Failures of equipment shall not be considered
				  malfunctions if they are caused in any way by poor maintenance, careless
				  operation, or any other preventable upset conditions, equipment breakdown, or
				  process failure.
"Manufacturing"
means the
				  combining of commercial asbestos--or, in the case of woven friction products,
				  the combining of textiles containing commercial asbestos--with any other
				  material(s), including commercial asbestos, and the processing of this
				  combination into a product. Chlorine production is considered a part of
				  manufacturing.
"Natural barrier"
means a
				  natural object that effectively precludes or deters access. Natural barriers
				  include physical obstacles such as cliffs, lakes or other large bodies of
				  water, deep and wide ravines, and mountains. Remoteness by itself is not a
				  natural barrier.
"Nonfriable asbestos-containing
				  material"
means any material containing more than 1 percent
				  asbestos as determined using the method specified in     40 CFR Part 763     Appendix
				  E, Section  1, Polarized Light Microscopy, that, when dry, cannot be crumbled,
				  pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
"Nonscheduled renovation
				  operation"
means a renovation operation necessitated by the
				  routine failure of equipment, which is expected to occur within a given period
				  based on past operating experience, but for which an exact date cannot be
				  predicted.
"Outside air"
means the air
				  outside buildings and structures, including, but not limited to, the air under
				  a bridge or in an open air ferry dock.
"Owner or operator of a demolition or
				  renovation activity"
means any person who owns, leases,
				  operates, controls, or supervises the facility being demolished or renovated or
				  any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises the demolition
				  or renovation operation, or both.
"Particulate asbestos material"
means finely divided particles of asbestos or material containing
				  asbestos.
"Planned renovation operations"
means a renovation operation, or a number of such operations, in which some
				  regulated asbestos-containing material (RACM) will be removed or stripped
				  within a given period of time and that can be predicted. Individual
				  nonscheduled operations are included if a number of such operations can be
				  predicted to occur during a given period of time based on operating
				  experience.
"Regulated asbestos-containing material
				  (RACM)"
means:
(a)
				Friable asbestos material,
(b)
				Category I nonfriable ACM that has become friable,
(c) Category I nonfriable ACM that will be or
				has been subjected to sanding, grinding, cutting, or abrading, or
(d) Category II nonfriable ACM that has a
				high probability of becoming 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.
"Remove"
means to take out RACM
				  or facility components that contain or are covered with RACM from any
				  facility.
"Renovation"
means altering a
				  facility or 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.
"Resilient floor covering"
means asbestos-containing floor tile, including asphalt and vinyl floor tile,
				  and sheet vinyl floor covering containing more than 1 percent asbestos as
				  determined using polarized light microscopy according to the method specified
				  in 40 CFR Part 763 Appendix E, Section  1, Polarized Light Microscopy.
"Strip"
means to take off RACM
				  from any part of a facility or facility components.
"Structural member"
means any
				  load supporting member of a facility, such as beams and load supporting walls;
				  or any nonload-supporting member, such as ceilings and nonload-supporting
				  walls.
"Visible emissions"
means any
				  emissions, which are visually detectable without the aid of instruments, coming
				  from RACM or asbestos-containing waste material, or from any asbestos milling,
				  manufacturing, or fabricating operation. This does not include condensed,
				  uncombined water vapor.
"Waste generator"
means any
				  owner or operator of a source covered by this section whose act or process
				  produces asbestos-containing waste material.
"Waste shipment record"
means
				  the shipping document, required to be originated and signed by the waste
				  generator, used to track and substantiate the disposal of asbestos-containing
				  waste material.
"Working day"
means Monday
				  through Friday and includes holidays that fall on any of the days Monday
				  through Friday.
(c) Units
				and Abbreviations: Used in this section are abbreviations and symbols of units
				of measure. These are defined as follows:
(i)
				System International (SI) Units of Measure:
g = gram
kg = kilogram
m = meter
m2 = square meter
m3 = cubic meter
(ii) Other Units of Measure:
C = Celsius (centigrade)
F = Fahrenheit
ft2 = square feet
ft3 = cubic feet
yd2 = square yards
min = minute
oz = ounces