Or. Admin. Code § 340-248-0210 - Emission Standards and Procedural Requirements: Asbestos Requirements for Mills, Roadways and Parking lots, and Manufacturing Operations
(1) Emission
standard for asbestos mills. No person may cause or allow to be discharged into
the atmosphere visible emissions, including fugitive emissions, from any
asbestos milling operation except as provided under OAR
340-248-0275(2)
Air Cleaning. For purposes of this rule, the presence of uncombined water in
the emission plume is not a violation of the visible emission requirement.
Outside storage of asbestos materials is not part of an asbestos mill
operation. The owner or operator of an asbestos mill must meet the following
requirements:
(a) Monitor each potential
source of asbestos emissions from a part of the mill facility, including air
cleaning devices, process equipment, and buildings that house equipment for
material processing and handling, at least once each day, during daylight
hours, for visible emissions to the outside air during periods of operations.
The monitoring must be by visual observation of at least 15 seconds duration
per source of emissions.
(b)
Inspect each air cleaning device at least once each week for proper operation
and for changes that signal the potential for malfunction including, to the
maximum extent possible without dismantling other than opening the device, the
presence of tears, holes, and abrasions in filter bags and for dust deposits on
the clean side of bags. For air cleaning devices that cannot be inspected on a
weekly basis, submit to DEQ, revise as necessary, and implement a written
maintenance plan to include, at a minimum, a maintenance schedule and
recordkeeping plan.
(c) Maintain
records of the results of visible emissions monitoring and air cleaning device
inspections using a format approved by DEQ and including the following
information:
(A) Date and time of each
inspection;
(B) Presence or absence
of visible emissions;
(C) Condition
of fabric filters, including presence of tears, holes, and abrasions;
(D) Presence of dust deposits on clean side
of fabric filters;
(E) Brief
description of corrective actions taken, including date and time; and
(F) Daily hours of operation for each air
cleaning device.
(d)
Furnish upon request, and make available at the affected facility during normal
business hours for inspection by DEQ, all records this section
requires.
(e) Retain a copy of all
monitoring and inspection records for at least two years.
(f) Submit a copy of visible emission
monitoring records to DEQ quarterly. The quarterly reports must be postmarked
by the 30th day following the end of the calendar quarter.
(g) Asbestos-containing waste material
produced by an asbestos milling operation must be disposed of according to OAR
340-248-0280.
(2) Roadways and Parking Lots. No
person may construct or maintain, or allow to be constructed or maintained a
roadway with asbestos tailings or asbestos-containing waste material on that
roadway, unless (for asbestos tailings):
(a)
It is a temporary roadway on an area of asbestos ore deposits (asbestos
mine);
(b) It is a temporary
roadway at an active asbestos mill site and is encapsulated with a resinous or
bituminous binder. The encapsulated road surface must be maintained at least
once per calendar year or within 12 months of road construction to prevent dust
emissions; or
(c) It is
encapsulated in asphalt concrete meeting the specifications contained in
Section 401 of Standard Specifications for Construction of Roads and
Bridges on Federal Highway Projects, FP-85, 1985, or their
equivalent.
(3)
Manufacturing. No person may cause or allow to be discharged into the
atmosphere visible emissions, except as provided in OAR
340-248-0275(2),
from a building or structure in which manufacturing operations utilizing
commercial asbestos are conducted, or directly from such manufacturing
operations if they are conducted outside buildings or structures, or from other
fugitive emissions. All asbestos-containing waste material a manufacturing
operation produces must be disposed of according to OAR
340-248-0280. Visible emissions
from boilers or other points not producing emissions directly from the
manufacturing operation and having no possible asbestos material in the exhaust
gases are not a violation of this rule. The presence of uncombined water in the
exhaust plume is not a violation of the visible emission requirements:
(a) Applicability. Manufacturing operations
subject to this rule are as follows:
(A)
Manufacturing cloth, cord, wicks, tubing, tape, twine, rope, thread, yarn,
roving, lap, or other textile materials;
(B) Manufacturing cement products;
(C) Manufacturing fire proofing and
insulating materials;
(D)
Manufacturing friction products;
(E) Manufacturing paper, millboard, and
felt;
(F) Manufacturing floor
tile;
(G) Manufacturing paints,
coatings, caulks, adhesives, or sealants;
(H) Manufacturing plastics and rubber
materials;
(I) Manufacturing
chlorine, using asbestos diaphragm technology;
(J) Manufacturing shotgun shell
wads;
(K) Manufacturing asphalt
concrete; and
(L) Other
manufacturing operation that results or may result in the release of asbestos
material to the ambient air.
(b) The owner or operator of the
manufacturing operation must monitor each potential source of asbestos
emissions from a part of the manufacturing facility, including air cleaning
devices, process equipment, and buildings housing material processing and
handling equipment. Monitoring must be done at least once each day during
daylight hours for visible emissions to the outside air during periods of
operation and be by visual observation of at least 15 seconds duration per
source of emissions.
(c) The owner
or operator of the manufacturing operation must inspect each air cleaning
device at least once each week for proper operation and for changes that signal
the potential for malfunctions, including, to the maximum extent possible
without dismantling other than opening the device, the presence of tears,
holes, and abrasions in filter bags and for dust deposits on the clean side of
bags. For air cleaning devices that cannot be inspected on a weekly basis,
submit to DEQ, revise as necessary, and implement a written maintenance plan to
include, at a minimum, a maintenance schedule and recordkeeping plan.
(d) The owner or operator of a manufacturing
operation must maintain records of the results of visible emission monitoring
and air cleaning device inspections using a format DEQ approves and including
the following information:
(A) Date and time
of each inspection;
(B) Presence or
absence of visible emissions;
(C)
Condition of fabric filters, including presence of tears, holes and
abrasions;
(D) Presence of dust
deposits on clean side of fabric filters;
(E) Brief description of corrective actions
taken, including date and time; and
(F) Daily hours of operation for each air
cleaning device.
(e) The
owner or operator of a manufacturing operation must furnish upon request, and
make available at the affected facility during normal business hours for
inspection by DEQ, all records this section requires.
(f) The owner or operator of a manufacturing
operation must retain a copy of all monitoring and inspection records for at
least two years.
(g) The owner or
operator of a manufacturing operation must submit quarterly a copy of the
visible emission monitoring records to DEQ if visible emissions occurred during
the report period. Quarterly reports must be postmarked by the 30th day
following the end of the calendar quarter.
(h) Asbestos-containing waste material
produced by any asbestos manufacturing operation must be disposed of according
to OAR 340-248-0280.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 468 & 468A
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 468A.745
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