Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 62-257.200 - Definitions
(1) "Asbestos"
means the asbestiform varieties of serpentinite (chrysotile), riebeckite
(crocidolite), cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophyllite, and actinolite-tremolite
and includes trade acronyms products such as amosite.
(2) "Asbestos-containing materials", ACM,
means any materials which contain more than one percent asbestos as determined
by Polarized Light Microscopy.
(3)
"Asbestos removal project" means a renovation or demolition operation in a
facility that involves the removal of a threshold amount of regulated
asbestos-containing material.
(4)
"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 Appendix A, Subpart F, 40 CFR Part 763, Section 1,
Polarized Light Microscopy.
(5)
"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 Appendix A, Subpart F, 40 CFR Part 763, Section 1,
Polarized Light Microscopy, that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or
reduced to powder by hand pressure.
(6) "Department" means the Florida Department
of Environmental Protection.
(7)
"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.
(8) "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.
(9) "Facility" is as defined in
40
CFR 61.141, adopted and incorporated by
reference in Rule
62-204.800,
F.A.C.
(10) "Friable Asbestos
Material" means any material containing more than 1 percent asbestos as
determined using the method specified in Appendix A, Subpart F, 40 CFR Part 763
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.
(11) "Local Air
Program," for purposes of Chapter 62-257, F.A.C., only, means a county air
pollution control program which meets the criteria of Section
403.182(1),
F.S.
(12) "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.
(13) "Ordered
demolition" means a demolition under an order of a State or local government
agency, issued because the facility is structurally unsound and in danger of
imminent collapse.
(14) "Owner or
operator" means any person or entity who owns, leases, operates, controls, or
supervises either the renovation or demolition operation or the site of the
renovation or demolition operation.
(15) "Planned renovation operation" means a
renovation operation, or a number of such operations, in which regulated
asbestos-containing material 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.
(16) "Renovation" means the alteration in any
way of a facility or of one or more facility components. Operations in which
load-supporting structural members are wrecked or taken out are
demolitions.
(17) "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 become crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder or
has a high probability of becoming 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 40 CFR Part 61, Subpart M, as adopted in
this chapter.
(18)
"Residential dwelling" means any structure or building intended to house a
single family, or a residential building having no more than four dwelling
units. This term is not intended to include any institutional, commercial,
public, or industrial structure, installation or building, any structure or
building being demolished as part of a public project, regardless of its
previous use, function or ownership, or any building, structure or installation
being used partly for residential purposes and partly for commercial, public or
industrial use.
(19) "State
Asbestos Coordinator" means the person designated by the Director of the
Department's Division of Air Resources Management to serve as the statewide
coordinator for the asbestos program.
(20) "Threshold amount of regulated
asbestos-containing material" means at least 260 linear feet on pipes, or at
least 160 square feet on other facility components, or at least 35 cubic feet
off facility components where the length or area could not be measured
previously.
(21) "Working day"
means Monday through Friday and includes holidays that fall on any of the days
Monday through Friday.
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