Indiana Administrative Code
Title 326 - AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION
Article 14 - EMISSION STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS AIR POLLUTANTS
Rule 10 - Emission Standards for Asbestos Demolition and Renovation Operations
Section 10-2 - Definitions
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 13-14-8; IC 13-17-3-4; IC 13-17-3-11
Affected: IC 13-11; IC 13-15; IC 13-17
Sec. 2.
In addition to the definitions in 40 CFR 61, Subpart A* and IC 13-11-2, the following definitions apply throughout this rule:
(1) "Active waste disposal site" means any disposal site other than an inactive site.
(2) "Adequately wet" means to sufficiently mix or penetrate with liquid to prevent the release of particulates. If visible emissions are observed coming from RACM, then that material has not been adequately wetted. However, the absence of visible emissions is not sufficient evidence of being adequately wet.
(3) "Asbestos" means an asbestiform variety of the following:
(4) "Asbestos abatement contractor" means an individual, partnership, corporation, sole proprietorship, unincorporated association, franchise, enterprise, or any other entity that enters into one (1) or more contracts providing for the individual or entity to engage in the inspection, management, or abatement of ACM for compensation.
(5) "Asbestos-containing material" or "ACM" means the following:
(6) "Asbestos-containing waste material" means any waste that contains commercial asbestos and is generated by a source subject to the provisions of this article. This 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 renovation operations, this term includes RACM waste and materials contaminated with asbestos, including disposable equipment and clothing.
(7) "Asbestos project" means an activity involving ACM, including the following:
(8) "Asbestos removal project" means any and all activities at a facility involving the removal, encapsulation, enclosure, abatement, renovation, repair, storage, stripping, dislodging, cutting, or drilling that result in the disturbance of a combined amount of RACM of any one (1) of the following:
These activities include work area preparation, implementation of engineering controls and work practices, and work area decontamination activities required by section 4 of this rule or 29 CFR 1926.1101 *.
(9) "Category I nonfriable ACM" means asbestos-containing packings, gaskets, resilient floor covering, and asphalt roofing products containing more than one percent (1%) asbestos as determined using the method specified in 40 CFR 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy*.
(10) "Category II nonfriable ACM" means any material, excluding Category I nonfriable ACM, containing more than one percent (1%) asbestos as determined using the method specified in 40 CFR 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy* that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by either hand pressure or mechanical forces reasonably expected to act on the material.
(11) "Commercial asbestos" means any material containing asbestos that is extracted from ore and has value because of its asbestos content.
(12) "Cutting" means to penetrate with a sharp-edged instrument and includes sawing, but does not include shearing, slicing, or punching.
(13) "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.
(14) "Electronic submission" means a submission of information to the department via electronic media, including:
(15) "Emergency renovation operation" means a renovation or 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 or is necessary to protect equipment from damage. This term includes operations necessitated by nonroutine failures of equipment.
(16) "Facility" means any:
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 rule is included regardless of its current use or function.
(17) "Facility component" means any part of a facility, including equipment.
(18) "Friable asbestos material" means any material containing more than one percent (1%) asbestos as determined using the method specified in 40 CFR 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy*, that, when dry, can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder either by hand pressure or mechanical forces reasonably expected to act on the material. If the asbestos content is less than ten percent (10%), as determined by a method other than point counting by polarized light microscopy verify the asbestos content by point counting using polarized light microscopy.
(19) "Glove bag" means a sealed compartment with attached inner gloves used for the handling of ACM. Properly installed and used, glove bags provide a small work area enclosure typically used for small scale asbestos stripping operations. Information on glove bag installation, equipment and supplies, and work practices is contained in Appendix G to 29 CFR 1926.1101 *.
(20) "Grinding" means to reduce to powder or small fragments and includes mechanical chipping or drilling.
(21) "High efficiency particulate air" or "HEPA" means a filtering system capable of trapping and retaining at least ninety-nine and ninety-seven hundredths percent (99.97%) of all monodispersed particles of three-tenths (0.3) micrometers in diameter or larger.
(22) "Inactive waste disposal site" means any disposal site or portion of the disposal site where additional asbestos-containing waste material has not been deposited within the previous twelve (12) months.
(23) "In poor condition" means the binding of the material is losing its integrity as indicated by peeling, cracking, or crumbling of the material.
(24) "Inspector" means a person licensed under 326 IAC 18 to conduct an inspection for ACM in a facility.
(25) "Installation" means any building or structure or any group of buildings or structures that are under the control of the same owner or operator (or owner or operator under common control), and that are at:
(26) "Leak-tight" means that solids or liquids cannot escape or spill out. It also means dust-tight.
(27) "Manufacturing" means the combining of commercial asbestos or, in the case of woven friction products, the combining of textiles containing commercial asbestos with any other materials, including commercial asbestos, and the processing of this combination into a product. Chlorine production is considered a part of manufacturing.
(28) "Nonfriable ACM" means any material containing more than one percent (1%) asbestos as determined using the method specified in 40 CFR 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy*, that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by either hand pressure or mechanical forces reasonably expected to act on the material.
(29) "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.
(30) "Ordered demolition" means demolition of a facility under an order of a state or local governmental agency, issued because the facility is both structurally unsound and in danger of imminent collapse.
(31) "Outside air" means the air outside buildings and structures, including the air under a bridge or in an open air ferry dock.
(32) "Owner or operator of a demolition or renovation activity" means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls, or supervises either or both of the following:
(33) "Particulate asbestos material" means finely divided particles of asbestos or material containing asbestos.
(34) "Planned renovation operation" means a renovation operation, or a number of renovation operations, in which some RACM will be removed or stripped within a given period of time and that can be predicted. Individual, nonscheduled renovation operations are included if a number of renovations can be predicted to occur during a given period of time based on operating experience.
(35) "Project supervisor" means a person licensed under 326 IAC 18 to supervise or perform any of the following activities with respect to RACM in a facility:
(36) "Regulated asbestos-containing material" or "RACM" means the following:
(37) "Removal or demolition contractor" means the person or company responsible for conducting renovation or demolition at a facility.
(38) "Remove" means to take out RACM or facility components that contain or are covered with RACM from any facility.
(39) "Renovation" means altering a facility or one (1) or more facility components in any way, including the stripping or removal of RACM from a facility component together with any related handling operation. Operations in which load-supporting structural members are wrecked or taken out are demolitions.
(40) "Resilient floor covering" means asbestos-containing floor tile, including asphalt and vinyl floor tile, and sheet vinyl floor covering containing more than one percent (1%) asbestos as determined using polarized light microscopy according to the method specified in 40 CFR 763, Subpart E, Appendix E, Section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy*.
(41) "School" means any elementary or secondary institutional day or residential school, including a public elementary or secondary charter school, that provides education, as determined under state law, except that the term does not include any education beyond grade 12.
(42) "School building" means any of the following:
(43) "Strip" means to take off RACM from any part of a facility or facility components.
(44) "Structural member" means any load-supporting member of a facility, such as beams and load-supporting walls, or any nonload-supporting member, such as ceilings and nonload-supporting walls.
(45) "Visible emissions" means any emissions, which are visually detectable without the aid of instruments, emitted from RACM or asbestos-containing waste material, or from any asbestos milling, manufacturing, or fabricating operation. This does not include condensed uncombined water vapor.
(46) "Work area" means the facility, room, or portion of a facility or room where an asbestos removal project is about to occur, is in progress, or has been completed, extending to the point where access to the area, as indicated by poly plastic sheeting that forms and surrounds the containment area, or demarcation by signs or barrier tape, including the glove bag operation area, is limited to those workers or project supervisors, or other persons authorized by the employer and required by work duties to be present in regulated areas, implementing the asbestos removal project.
(47) "Worker" means a person licensed under 326 IAC 18 to perform the following activities with respect to RACM in a facility:
(48) "Working day" means Monday through Friday and includes holidays that fall on any of the days Monday through Friday.
*These documents are incorporated by reference. Copies may be obtained from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov, or are available for review at the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Office of Legal Counsel, Indiana Government Center North, 100 North Senate Avenue, Thirteenth Floor, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.
