11-2-201 Active Waste Disposal Sites: Any disposal site or portion thereof which currently accepts asbestos-containing waste material or has accepted regulated asbestos-containing waste material within the past year.
11-2-202 Adequately Wetted: Sufficiently mixed or penetrated with liquid to prevent the release of asbestos-containing particles. 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 wetted. material that is removed in units or parts of units shall be wet at all the exposed surfaces. If broken up, the material shall be wetted at all the exposed fracture surfaces.
11-2-203 Asbestos: Actinolite, amosite (cummingtonite, grunerite), anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite (riebecktite), tremolite.
11-2-204 Asbestos-Containing Material: Any building material which contains commercial asbestos in an amount greater than 1% by weight, area, or count as determined by the methods specified in Section 11-2-603.
11-2-205 Asbestos-Containing Waste Material: Any waste that contains or has been contaminated by commercial asbestos and is generated by a plant, source, or operation subject to the provisions of this Rule, including, but not limited to, asbestos mill tailings, control device asbestos waste, RACM demolition and renovation waste material, disposable equipment and clothing, and bags or containers that previously contained commercial asbestos.
11-2-206 Asbestos Mill: Any plant engaged in the conversion or any intermediate step in the conversion of asbestos ore into commercial asbestos. Indoor and outdoor storage, handling, conveying and loading of asbestos materials is considered a part of such a plant.
11-2-207 Asbestos Tailing: Any solid waste product of asbestos mining or milling operation which contains asbestos.
11-2-208 Category I Nonfriable Asbestos-Containing Material: Asbestos-containing packings, gaskets, resilient floor coverings, mastics and asphalt roofing products.
11-2-209 Category II Nonfriable Asbestos-Containing Material: Asbestos-containing material, excluding Category I nonfriable asbestos-containing material, that, when dry, and in its present form, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure. For the purposes of this Regulation, these products include transite board, pipe and asbestos cement products, plaster, stucco, and paint.
11-2-210 Commercial Asbestos: Any variety of asbestos which is produced by extracting asbestos from asbestos ore.
11-2-211 Completion Date: The date on which containment is removed.
11-2-212 Containment: The isolation of an asbestos removal area from the outside air by use of physical barriers, usually plastic sheeting. Such barriers shall include transparent viewing ports which allow observation of all stripping and removal of RACM from outside the barrier.
11-2-213 Control Device Asbestos Waste: Any asbestos-containing waste material that is collected in an air pollution control device.
11-2-214 Conversion Operation: A process by which asbestos material and/or asbestos containing waste material is converted to nonasbestos (asbestos-free) material.
11-2-215 Cumulative Renovations: A series of small (less than 30.8 m [100 ft] linear, 9.4 m [100 square feet] or 1 cubic meter [35 cubic feet]) renovations or removals of RACM performed during a calendar year at a single plant or facility which, taken together, would add up to a reportable amount under the provisions of this Rule.
11-2-216 Demolition: Wrecking, intentional burning, moving or dismantling of any load supporting structural member, or portion thereof, of a building, facility or ship. This includes, but is not limited to, any related cutting, disjointing, stripping, or removal of structural elements.
11-2-217 Element: Any boiler, pipe, furnace, duct, tank, reactor, column, turbine, bridge or structural member.
11-2-218 Emergency Demolition: A demolition carried out pursuant to an order of a federal, state or local government agency issued because the building is structurally unsound and in danger of imminent collapse, or has been declared a public nuisance.
11-2-219 Emergency Renovation: Renovation that is not planned but results from an sudden, unexpected event. This includes:
219.1 Operations necessitated by equipment failures;
219.2 Unanticipated findings of RACM during demolition, renovation or construction activity;
219.3 The conversion of previously nonfriable asbestos-containing material to friable material during the course of a renovation;
219.4 Renovations due to fire, water, or earthquake damage;
219.5 Renovations where imminent danger to the public health may exist;
219.6 Renovations in public buildings and schools; or
219.7 Owner-occupied single family dwellings during or within ten days of the close of escrow which may be included at the discretion of the APCO.
11-2-220 Encapsulant: A sealant material such as latex paint which, when applied, coats or penetrates the asbestos-containing material.
11-2-221 Fabricating: Any processing of a manufactured product containing commercial asbestos with the exception of processing at temporary sites for the construction or restoration of buildings, structures, plants or installations.
11-2-222 Friable Asbestos-Containing material: Any material that contains more than one percent asbestos as determined by the methods specified in Section 11-2-603 and that falls into one or more of the following categories:
11-2-222.1 Materials that can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder, when dry, by hand pressure. These include, but are not limited to, sprayed-on or troweled-on fireproofing, acoustic ceiling material and ceiling tiles, resilient floor covering backing, thermal systems insulation, non-asphalt-saturated roofing felts, asbestos-containing paper and joint compound.
11-2-222.2 Materials that have been rendered to a crumbled, pulverized, or powdered state, when dry, by crushing, sanding, sawing or shot-blasting or other demolition or renovation techniques. These include, but are not limited to, U.S. E.P.A. Category I non-friable asbestos-containing material as defined in 40 CFR Part 61.141 and in Section 11-2-208.
11-2-222.3 Materials in which the asbestos fibers are bound into a matrix, if such materials have been rendered to a powdered state, when dry, by crushing, sanding, sawing or shot-blasting or other demolition or renovation techniques, or by severe weathering. These include, but are not limited to U.S. E.P.A. Category II nonfriable asbestos-containing material as defined in 40 CFR Part 61.141 and in Section 11-2-209.
11-2-223 Glove Bag Method: A method of stripping of removing RACM in which the wetted material is totally isolated inside a transparent plastic leak-tight bag and then manually removed using gloves which are an integral part of the bag.
11-2-224 HEPA Filter: A high efficiency particulate air filter capable of filtering 0.3 micron particles with 99.97 percent efficiency as determined by ASTM method D-2988-71.
11-2-225 Inactive Waste Disposal Site: Any disposal site or portion thereof, where additional asbestos-containing waste material will not be deposited and where the surface is not disturbed by vehicular traffic.
11-2-226 Leak-Tight: Any method of containerization that prevents solids, liquids, or particles from escaping or spilling out.
11-2-227 Manufacturing: 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.
11-2-228 (added) Ordered Demolition: The demolition of a stationary structure pursuant to an order of an authorized representative of a federal, state or local government agency, issued because that structure is structurally unsound and in danger of imminent collapse.
11-2-229 Outside Air: The air outside buildings and structures.
