Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 391-3-24-.03 - Definitions
(1) "Abatement"
means any measures or set of measures designed to permanently eliminate
lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards. Abatement includes, but is not
limited to:
(a) The removal of lead-based
paint and lead contaminated dust, the permanent enclosure or encapsulation of
lead-based paint, the replacement of lead-painted surfaces or fixtures, and the
removal or permanent covering of soil, when lead-based paint hazards are
present in such paint, dust or soil; and
(b) All preparation, clean-up, disposal, and
post-abatement clearance testing activities associated with such measures;
and
(c) Specifically, abatement in
target housing and child-occupied facilities includes, but is not limited to:
1. Projects for which there are written
contracts or other documentation, which provides that an individual or firm
certified in accordance with Rule
391-3-24-.05 will be conducting
activities in or to a residential dwelling or child-occupied facility that:
(i) Shall result in the permanent elimination
of lead-based paint, or lead-based paint hazards; or
(ii) Are designed to permanently eliminate
lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards and are described in paragraphs
(a) and (b) of this definition.
2. Projects involving and/or resulting in the
permanent elimination of a lead-based paint hazard, or intact lead-based paint
equal to or greater than 1.0 milligram(s) per square centimeter (mg/cm2) or
equal to or greater than 0.5 percent (0.5%) by weight, conducted by firms or
persons certified in accordance with
391-3-24-.05, unless such projects
are covered by subsection (d) of this definition;
3. Projects involving and/or resulting in the
permanent elimination of a lead-based paint hazard, or intact lead-based paint
equal to or greater than 1.0 milligram(s) per square centimeter (mg/cm2) or
equal to or greater than 0.5 percent (0.5%) by weight, conducted by firms or
persons who, through their company name or promotional literature, or otherwise
represent, advertise, or hold themselves to be in the business of performing
lead-based paint activities as defined by these Rules, unless such projects are
covered by subsection (d) of this definition; or
4. Projects involving and/or resulting in the
permanent elimination of lead-based paint hazards or lead-based paint, that are
conducted in response to State or local abatement orders.
(d) Abatement does not include renovation,
remodeling, landscaping or other activities, when such activities are not
designed to permanently eliminate lead-based paint hazards, but instead are
designed to repair, restore, or remodel a given structure or dwelling, even
though these activities may incidentally result in a reduction or elimination
of lead-based paint hazards. Furthermore, abatement does not include interim
controls, operations and maintenance activities, or other measures and
activities designed to temporarily, but not permanently, reduce lead-based
paint hazards.
(2)
"Accessible surface" means an interior or exterior surface painted with
lead-based paint that is accessible for a child, six (6) years of age or
younger, to mouth or chew.
(3)
"Accredited training program" means a training program that has been accredited
by the Division pursuant to section
391-3-24-.04 to provide training
for persons engaged in renovation or lead-based paint activities.
(4) "Adequate quality control" means a plan
or design to ensure the authenticity, integrity, and accuracy of samples,
including dust, soil, and paint chip or paint film samples. Adequate quality
control also includes provisions for representative sampling.
(5) "Agent-in-Charge" means the most
responsible person at the location or activity being inspected with the direct
responsibility for the property or the activity taking place, e.g., lead
supervisor.
(6) "Arithmetic Mean"
means the number obtained by dividing the sum of a set of quantities or
concentrations (such as wipe sample concentrations) by the number of quantities
or concentrations in the set.
(7)
"Certificate of mailing" means proof of mailing and proof of
delivery.
(8) "Certified Dust
Sampling Technician" means an individual who has been trained by an accredited
training program, passed the course test, and certified by the Division to
conduct dust sampling following renovation activities to meet clearance
standards in Rule
391-3-24-.07.
(9) "Certified Lead Firm" means a company,
partnership, corporation, sole proprietorship, association, or other business
entity that performs lead-based paint activities, to which the Division has
issued a certificate of approval pursuant to section
391-3-24-.05.
(10) "Certified Lead Inspector" means an
individual who has been trained by an accredited training program and certified
by the Division to conduct inspections. A lead inspector also samples for the
presence of lead in paint, dust, and soil for the purposes of abatement
clearance testing.
(11) "Certified
Lead Project Designer" means an individual who has been trained by an
accredited training program, passed the course test, and certified by the
Division to prepare abatement project designs, occupancy protection plans, and
abatement reports.
(12) "Certified
Lead Risk Assessor" means an individual who has been trained by an accredited
training program and certified by the Division to conduct risk assessments. A
lead risk assessor also samples for the presence of lead in paint, dust, and
soil for the purposes of abatement clearance testing.
(13) "Certified Lead Supervisor" means an
individual who has been trained by an accredited training program and certified
by the Division to supervise and conduct abatements in target housing and
child-occupied facilities and to prepare occupant protection plans and
abatement reports.
(14) "Certified
Lead Worker" means an individual who has been trained by an accredited training
program, passed the course test, and certified by the Division to perform
abatement activities.
(15)
"Certified Renovation Firm" means a company, partnership, corporation, sole
proprietorship, individual doing business, association, or other business
entity; a Federal, State, Tribal, or local government agency; or a nonprofit
organization that performs renovation activities to which the Division has
issued a certificate of approval pursuant to Section
391-3-24-.09.
(16) "Certified Renovator" means an
individual who either performs or directs workers who perform renovations. A
certified renovator is a renovator who has successfully completed a renovator
course by an accredited training program, passed the course test, and been
certified by the Division to perform renovation activities.
(17) "Chewable surface" means an interior or
exterior surface painted with lead-based paint that a child six (6) years of
age or younger can mouth or chew. A chewable surface is the same as an
"accessible surface" as defined in
42 U.S.C.
4851 b(2). Hard metal substrates and other
materials that cannot be dented by the bite of a young child are not considered
chewable.
(18) "Child-occupied
facility" means a building, or portion of a building constructed prior to 1978,
visited by the same child, six years of age or under, on at least two different
days within the same week (Sunday through Saturday period), provided each day's
visit lasts at least three hours and the combined weekly visit lasts at least
six hours. Child-occupied facilities include, but are not limited to, day-care
centers, pre-schools and kindergarten classrooms.
(19) "Cleaning verification card" means a
card developed and distributed, or otherwise approved, by EPA for the purpose
of determining, through comparison of wet and dry disposable cleaning cloths
with the card, whether post-renovation cleaning has been properly
completed.
(20) "Clearance levels"
means a value that indicates the amount of lead on a surface following
completion of an abatement activity. To achieve clearance when dust sampling is
required, values below these levels must be achieved.
(21) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
the Board of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources.
(22) "Common area" means a portion of a
building that is generally accessible to all occupants. Such an area may
include, but is not limited to, hallways, stairways, laundry and recreational
rooms, playgrounds, community centers, garages and boundary fences.
(23) "Completion date" means the date on
which all activities on a permitted lead-based paint abatement project
requiring the use of certified persons are complete, including, but not limited
to, the complete disassembly of all removal area barriers, final clearance
testing and disposal of all lead-based paint waste.
(24) "Component or building component" means
specific design or structural elements or fixtures of a building, residential
dwelling, or child-occupied facility that are distinguished from each other by
form, function, and location. These include, but are not limited to, interior
components such as: ceilings, crown molding, walls, chair rails, doors, door
trim, floors, fireplaces, radiators and other heating units, shelves, shelf
supports, stair treads, stair risers, stair stringers, newel posts, railing
caps, balustrades, windows and trim, including sashes, window heads, jambs,
sills, stools and troughs, built-in cabinets, columns, beams, bathroom
vanities, counter tops, and air conditioners; and exterior components such as:
painted roofing, chimneys, flashing, gutters and downspouts, ceilings, soffits,
fascias, rake boards, corner boards, bulkheads, doors and door trim, fences,
floors, joists, lattice work, railings and railing caps, siding, handrails,
stair risers and treads, stair stringers, columns, balustrades, window sills,
casings, sashes, wells and troughs, and air conditioners.
(25) "Concentration" means the relative
content of a specific substance contained within a larger mass, such as the
amount of lead (micrograms per gram or parts per million by weight) in a sample
of dust or soil.
(26) "Containment"
means a process to protect the public, occupants, workers and the environment
by controlling exposures to the lead-contaminated dust and debris created
during an abatement.
(27) "Course
agenda" means an outline of the key topics to be covered during a training
course, including the time allotted to teach each topic.
(28) "Course test" means an evaluation of the
overall effectiveness of the training, which shall test the trainees' knowledge
and retention of the topic covered during the course.
(29) "Course test blueprint" means written
documentation identifying the proportion of course test questions devoted to
each major topic in the course curriculum.
(30) "Deteriorated paint" means any interior
or exterior paint or other coating that is peeling, chipping, chalking or
cracking or any paint or coating located on an interior or exterior surface or
fixture that is otherwise damaged or separating from the substrate.
(31) "Director" means the Director of the
Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources or his
designees.
(32) "Discipline" means
one of the specific types or categories of lead-based paint activities
identified in these Rules for which persons may receive training from
accredited training programs and become certified by the Division. For example,
"Lead worker" is a discipline.
(33)
"Distinct painting history" means the application history, as indicated by its
visual appearance or a record of application, over time, of paint or other
surface coatings to a component or room.
(34) "Disturb" means to break up, burn,
crush, cut into, dissolve, sand, scrape, abrade, remove, demolish, or otherwise
manipulate a painted surface in a manner that generates dust, paint chips, or
debris.
(35) "Division" means the
Environmental Protection Division of the Department of Natural Resources and
shall where applicable include any contractors selected by the Division to
carry out any provisions of these Rules.
(36) "Documented methodologies" are current
methods or protocols, e.g., ASTM E1728-03, used to sample for the presence of
lead in paint, dust, and soil found in the following:
(a) The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD);
(b) The
Guidelines for the Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in
Housing;
(c) The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Guidance on Residential Lead-Based Paint,
Lead-Contaminated Dust, and Lead-Contaminated Soil and Residential Sampling for
Lead: Protocols for Dust and Soil Sampling (EPA Report Number 7474-R-95- 001);
and
(d) Regulations, guidance
methods or protocols issued by States and Indian Tribes that have been
authorized by the EPA; and other equivalent methods and guidelines.
(37) "Dripline" means the area
within 3 feet surrounding the perimeter of a building.
(38) "Dry disposable cleaning cloth" means a
commercially available dry, electrostatically charged, white disposable cloth
designed to be used for cleaning hard surfaces such as uncarpeted floors or
counter tops.
(39) "Dust-lead
hazard" means surface dust in a residential dwelling or child-occupied facility
that contains a mass-per-area concentration of lead equal to or exceeding 10
micrograms per square foot (µg/ft2), on floors or equal to or exceeding
100 micrograms per square foot (µg/ft2), on interior window sills based
on wipe samples.
(40) "Elevated
blood lead level (EBL)" means an excessive absorption of lead that is a
confirmed concentration of lead in whole blood of 20 µg/dl (micrograms of
lead per deciliter of whole blood) for a single venous test or of 15-19
µg/dl in two consecutive venous tests taken 3 to 4 months
apart.
(41) "Emergency lead-based
paint abatement project" means a lead-based paint abatement project that has
been determined by a lead risk assessor and the Division to be an imminent
lead-based paint hazard to building occupants in a child-occupied
facility.
(42) "Emergency
renovation project" means a renovation activity that was not planned but
resulted from a sudden, unexpected event (such as non-routine failures of
equipment) that, if not immediately attended to presents a safety or public
health hazard, or threatens equipment and/or property with significant
damage.
(43) "Encapsulant" means a
substance that forms a barrier between lead-based paint and the environment
using a liquid-applied coating (with or without reinforcement materials) or an
adhesively bonded covering material.
(44) "Encapsulation" means the application of
an encapsulant.
(45) "Enclosure"
means the use of rigid, durable construction materials that are mechanically
fastened to the substrate in order to act as a barrier between lead-based paint
and the environment.
(46) "Floor"
means the interior or exterior installed surface on which one stands, walks,
crawls or plays. For exterior entrances, the term does not include sidewalks or
uncovered porches (e.g. a porch with no roof).
(47) "Friction Surface" means an interior or
exterior surface that is subject to abrasion or friction, including, but not
limited to, certain windows, floors and stair surfaces.
(48) "Guest Instructor" means a person
designated by the training manager or principal instructor to provide
instruction specific to the lecture, hands-on activities or work practice
components of a course.
(49)
"Hands-on skills assessment" means an evaluation, which tests the trainees'
ability to satisfactorily perform the work practices and procedures identified
in 391-3-24-.04
of these Rules.
(50) "Hazardous
waste" means any solid waste which has been defined as hazardous waste in
regulations promulgated by Board of Natural Resources, Chapter
391-3-11.
(51) "Health
investigation" means the investigation of target housing or a child-occupied
facility housing a child, six years of age or under, with an elevated blood
lead level. The purpose of a health investigation is to identify a cause or
causes for the lead poisoning of a child.
(52) "HEPA vacuum" means a vacuum cleaner,
which has been designed with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter as
the last filtration stage. A HEPA filter is a filter that is capable of
capturing particles of 0.3 microns with 99.97 percent (99.97%) efficiency. The
vacuum cleaner must be designed, so that all the air drawn into the machine is
expelled through the HEPA filter with none of the air leaking past
it.
(53) "Impact surface" means an
interior or exterior surface that is subject to damage by repeated sudden
force, such as certain parts of door frames.
(54) "Inspection" means a surface-by-surface
investigation conducted by a lead inspector to determine the presence of
lead-based paint and the provision of a report explaining the results of the
investigation.
(55) "Interim
controls" means a set of measures designed to temporarily reduce human exposure
or likely exposure to lead-based paint hazards including, but not limited to
specialized cleaning, repairs, maintenance, painting, temporary containment,
ongoing monitoring of lead-based paint hazards or potential hazards, standard
treatments, and the establishment and operation of management and resident
education programs.
(56) "Interior
window sill" means the portion of the horizontal window ledge that protrudes
into the interior of the room.
(57)
"Lead-based paint (LBP)" means paint or other surface coatings that contain
lead equal to or in excess of 1.0 milligram(s) per square centimeter (mg/cm2),
or 0.5 percent (0.5%) by weight or 5000 parts per million (ppm).
(58) "Lead-based paint abatement project"
means the abatement of lead-based paint or lead-based paint hazards from one or
more residential dwelling units and/or child-occupied facilities located within
the same local government jurisdiction and submitted under a common project
notification.
(59) "Lead-based
paint activities" means, in the case of target housing and child-occupied
facilities, inspection, risk assessment, and abatement, as defined in this
Rule. Lead-based paint activities do not include renovation, as defined in this
Rule.
(60) "Lead-based paint
hazard" means any condition that causes exposure to lead from lead-contaminated
dust, lead-contaminated soil, or lead-contaminated paint that is deteriorated
or present in accessible surfaces, friction surfaces, or impact surfaces that
would result in adverse human health effects as identified pursuant to Toxic
Substance Control Act (TSCA) section 403.
(61) "Lead-contaminated dust" means surface
dust in residential dwellings or in child-occupied facilities that contain an
area or mass concentration of lead at or in excess of levels identified
pursuant to Rule
391-3-24-.07.
(62) "Lead-contaminated soil" means bare soil
on residential real property or on the property of a child-occupied facility
that contains lead at or in excess of levels identified pursuant to Rule
391-3-24-.03(85).
(63) "Lead-hazard screen" is a limited risk
assessment activity that involves limited paint and dust sampling as described
in 391-3-24-.06(3) of
these Rules.
(64) "Living Area"
means any area of a residential dwelling used by one or more children age six
(6) and under, including, but not limited to, living rooms, kitchen areas,
dens, play rooms, and children's bedrooms.
(65) "Loading" means the quantity of a
specific substance present per unit of surface area, such as the amount of lead
in micrograms contained in the dust collected from a certain surface area
divided by the surface area in square feet or square meters.
(66) "Mid-yard" means an area of a
residential yard approximately midway between the dripline of a residential
building and the nearest property boundary or between the driplines of a
residential building and another building on the same property.
(67) "Minor repair and maintenance
activities" are activities, including minor heating, ventilation or air
conditioning work, electrical work, and plumbing, that disrupt 6 square feet or
less of painted surface per room for interior activities or 20 square feet or
less of painted surface for exterior activities where none of the work
practices prohibited or restricted in Rule
391-3-24-.10(3)(c)
are used and where the work does not involve window replacement or demolition
of painted surface areas. When removing painted components, or portions of
painted components, the entire surface area removed is the amount of painted
surface disturbed. Jobs, other than emergency renovations, performed in the
same room within the same 30 days must be considered the same job for the
purpose of determining whether the job is a minor repair and maintenance
activity.
(68) "Multi-family
dwelling" means a structure that has more than one separate dwelling unit,
which is used or occupied, or intended to be used or occupied in whole or in
part, as the home or residence of one or more persons.
(69) "Occupant Protection Plan" means a
written plan which describes the measure and management procedures that will be
taken during abatement to protect building occupants from exposure to
lead-based paint hazards. The plan shall be unique to each residential dwelling
unit or child-occupied facility. For projects less than five units, the plan
shall be prepared by a certified lead supervisor or certified lead project
designer. For projects with five or more units, the plan shall be prepared by a
lead project designer. The plan shall include the preparer's signature and
certification number.
(70) "Paint
in poor condition" means more than ten (10) square feet of deteriorated paint
on exterior components with large surface areas; or more than two (2) square
feet of deteriorated paint on interior components with large surface areas
(e.g., walls, ceilings, floors, doors); or more than 10 percent (10%) of the
total surface area of the component is deteriorated on interior or exterior
components with small surface areas (window sills, baseboards, soffits,
trim).
(71) "Paint-lead hazard"
means any of the following:
(a) Any lead-based
paint on a friction surface that is subject to abrasion and where the lead dust
levels on the nearest horizontal surface underneath the friction surface (e.g.,
the window sill, or floor) are equal to or greater than the dust-lead hazard
levels identified in the definition of dust-lead hazard.
(b) Any damaged or otherwise deteriorated
lead-based paint on an impact surface that is caused by impact from a related
building component (such as a door knob that knocks into a wall or a door that
knocks against its door frame).
(c)
Any chewable lead-based painted surface on which there is evidence of teeth
marks.
(d) Any other deteriorated
lead-based paint in any residential building or child-occupied facility or on
the exterior of any residential building or child-occupied facility.
(72) "Pamphlet" means the EPA
pamphlet titled Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families,
Child Care Providers and Schools developed under section 406(a) of TSCA for use
in complying with section 406(b) of TSCA or any Division pamphlet approved by
EPA pursuant to 40 CFR
745.326 that is developed for the same
purpose. This includes reproductions of the pamphlet when copied in full and
without revision or deletion of material from the pamphlet except for the
addition or revision of the Division's sources of information.
(73) "Permanently covered soil" means soil
which has been separated from human contact by the placement of a barrier
consisting of solid, relatively impermeable materials, such as pavement or
concrete. Grass, mulch and other landscaping materials are not considered
permanent covering.
(74) "Person"
means the State of Georgia or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or any
political subdivision, municipality, county, public or private corporation,
authority, partnership, individual or association; any interstate body; or
department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government.
(75) "Play Area" means an area of frequent
soil contact by children six (6) years of age or less as indicated by, but not
limited to, such factors including the following: the presence of play
equipment (e.g., sandboxes, swing sets, and sliding boards), toys, or other
children's possessions, observations of play patterns, or information provided
by parents, residents, care givers, or property owners.
(76) "Principal instructor" means the person
who has the primary responsibility for organizing and teaching a particular
course.
(77) "Recognized
laboratory" means an environmental laboratory recognized by EPA pursuant to
TSCA 405(b) as being capable of performing an analysis for lead compounds in
paint, soil and dust.
(78)
"Recognized test kit" means a commercially available kit recognized by EPA
under 40 Code of Federal Regulations 745.88 as being capable of allowing a user
to determine the presence of lead at levels equal to or in excess of 1.0
milligrams per square centimeter (mg/cm2), or more than 0.5 percent (0.5%) lead
by weight, in a paint chip, paint powder, or painted surface.
(79) "Reduction" means measures designed to
reduce or eliminate human exposure to lead-based paint hazards through methods
including interim controls and abatement.
(80) "Renovation" means the modification of
any existing structure, or portion thereof, that results in the disturbance of
painted surfaces, unless that activity is performed as part of an abatement as
defined by this Rule. The term renovation includes (but is not limited to): the
removal, modification or repair of painted surfaces or painted components
(e.g., modification of painted doors, surface restoration, window repair,
surface preparation activity (such as sanding, scraping, or other such
activities that may generate paint dust)); the removal of building components
(e.g., walls, ceilings, plumbing, windows); weatherization projects (e.g.,
cutting holes in painted surfaces to install blown-in insulation or to gain
access to attics, planing thresholds to install weather-stripping), and interim
controls that disturb painted surfaces. A renovation performed for the purpose
of converting a building, or part of a building, into target housing or a
child-occupied facility is a renovation. The term renovation does not include
minor repair and maintenance activities.
(81) "Renovation activities" mean any
activities performed during a renovation including dust sampling following
renovation.
(82) "Residential
building" means a building containing one or more residential
dwellings.
(83) "Residential
dwelling" means
(1) a detached single family
dwelling unit, including attached structures such as porches and stoops;
or
(2) a single family dwelling
unit in a structure that contains more than one separate residential dwelling
unit, which is used or occupied, or intended to be used or occupied, in whole
or in part, as the home or residence of one or more persons.
(84) "Risk assessment" means
(1) an on-site investigation to determine the
existence, nature, severity, and location of lead-based paint hazards,
and
(2) the provision of a report
by the person or the lead firm conducting the risk assessment, explaining the
results of the investigation and options for reducing lead-based
hazards.
(85) "Room"
means a separate part of the inside of a building, such as a bedroom, living
room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, or utility room. To be
considered a separate room, the room must be separated from adjoining rooms by
built-in walls or archways that extend at least six (6) inches from an
intersecting wall. Half walls or bookcases count as room separators if
built-in. Moveable or collapsible partitions or partitions consisting solely of
shelves or cabinets are not considered built-in walls. A screened in porch that
is used as a living area is a room.
(86) "Soil-lead hazard" means bare soil on
residential real property or on the property of a child-occupied facility that
contains total lead equal to or exceeding 400 parts per million in a play area
or average of 1,200 parts per million of bare soil in the rest of the yard
based on soil samples.
(87) "Soil
sample" means a sample collected in a representative location using ASTM E1727,
"Standard Practice for Field Collection of Soil Samples for Lead Determination
by Atomic Spectrometry Techniques," or equivalent method.
(88) "Start date" means the date on which
activities begin on a notified lead-based paint abatement project requiring the
use of certified persons, including the abatement area isolation and
preparation or any other activity which may disturb lead-based paint. Start
date also means the date on which activities begin on a permitted renovation
project.
(89) "Target housing"
means any housing constructed prior to 1978, except housing for the elderly or
persons with disabilities (unless any child/children age six (6) years or under
reside or is expected to reside in such housing for the elderly or persons with
disabilities) or any zero (0)-bedroom dwelling.
(90) "Third party certification exam" means a
third party examination in a particular discipline which is recognized by the
Division and administered by a third party certification exam
administrator.
(91) "Third party
certification exam administrator" means an administrator which is accepted by
the Division to conduct third party certification exams.
(92) "Training course curriculum" means an
established set of course topics for instruction in an accredited training
program for a particular discipline designed to provide specialized knowledge
and skills.
(93) "Training hour"
means at least 50 minutes of actual teaching, including, but not limited to,
time devoted to lecture, learning activities, small group activities,
demonstrations, evaluations, and/or hands-on experience.
(94) "Training manager" means the person
responsible for administering an accredited training program and monitoring the
performance of principal instructors and guest instructors.
(95) "TSCA" means the Toxic Substances
Control Act, 15 U.S.C.
2601.
(96) "Visual inspection for clearance
testing" means the visual examination of a residential dwelling or a
child-occupied facility following an abatement to determine whether or not the
abatement has been successfully completed.
(97) "Visual inspection for risk assessment"
means the visual examination of a residential dwelling or a child-occupied
facility to determine the existence of deteriorated lead-based paint or other
potential sources of lead-based paint hazards.
(98) "Weighted Arithmetic Mean" means an
arithmetic mean determined by assigning a multiplier to each quantity or
concentration (such as a wipe sample concentration) to be averaged to indicate
the relative importance of each quantity's contribution to the average. For
example, multiplying each wipe sample concentration by the size of the area
wiped, adding the resulting mathematical products, adding the size of the areas
wiped, and dividing the sum of the mathematical products by the sum of the
areas wiped.
(99) "Wet disposable
cleaning cloth" means a commercially available, pre-moistened white disposable
cloth designed to be used for cleaning hard surfaces such as uncarpeted floors
or counter tops.
(100) "Wet mopping
system" means a device with the following characteristics: A long handle, a mop
head designed to be used with disposable absorbent cleaning pads, a reservoir
for cleaning solution, and a built-in mechanism for distributing or spraying
the cleaning solution onto a floor, or a method of equivalent
efficacy.
(101) "Window trough"
means, for the typical double-hung window, the portion of the exterior
windowsill between the interior windowsill (or stool) and the frame of the
storm window. If there is no storm window, the window trough is the area that
receives both the upper and lower window sashes when they are both lowered. The
window trough is sometimes referred to as the window "well".
(102) "Wipe sample" means the sample
collected by wiping a representative surface of known area, as determined by
ASTM E1728, "Standard Practice for Field Collection of Settled Dust Samples
Using Wipe Sampling Methods for Lead Determination by Atomic Spectrometry
Techniques," or equivalent method, with an acceptable wipe material as defined
in ASTM E1792, "Standard Specification for Wipe Sampling Materials for Lead in
Surface Dust."
(103) "Work area"
means the area that the certified renovator establishes to contain the dust and
debris generated by a renovation.
(104) "Working day" means any day Monday
through Friday. Holidays falling on any of these days are included in this
definition.
(105) "Zero (0)-bedroom
dwelling" means any residential dwelling in which the living area is not
separated from the sleeping area. The term includes efficiencies, studio
apartments, dormitory housing, military barracks, and rentals of individual
rooms in residential dwellings.
Notes
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