A Guide to Normal Demolition Practices Under the Asbestos NESHAP (EPA-340/1-92-013)
A Guide to Normal Demolition Practices Under the Asbestos NESHAP
EPA-340/1-92-013
September 1992
31 pp
Exercpted from page 6 of the document:
Definitions
The following definitions taken from the November 20, 1990 revision of the asbestos NESHAP regulation are provided for ease of reference.
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Asbestos-containing waste materials means mill tailings or any waste that contains commercial asbestos and is generated by a source subject to the provisioas of this subpart. The 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 renovations operations, this term also includes regulated asbestos-containing material.
Category I nonfriable asbestos-containing material (ACM) means asbestos-containing packings, gaskets, resilient floor covering, and asphalt roofing products containing more than one percent asbestos as determined using the method specified in appendix A, supbart F, 40 CFR part 763, section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy.
Category II nonfriable ACM means any material, exc1uding Category I nonfriable ACM, containing more than one percent asbestos as determined using the methods specified in appendix A, supbart F, 40 CFR part 763, section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized. or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
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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.
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 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 subpart is not excluded, regardless of its current use or function.
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