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22734 ' Federal Registor f Vol. 51, No. 119-/ Friday, June 20, 1986 / Rules and Regulations paragraph (d)(2)(i) of this section, ' the elements as prescribed in Appendix with the requirements of paragraph (g) . samples shall be of such frequency and A. of this section. pattern as to represent with reasonable (7) Employee notification of (iii) For the following operations, accuracy the levels of exposure of the monitoring results, (i) The employer wherever feasible engineering controls employees. In no case shall sampling be shall, within 15 working days after the and work practices that can be at intervals greater than six.months for receipt of the results of any montoring instituted are not Sufficient to reduce the employees whose exposures may performed under the standard, notify the employee exposure to or below, the reasonably be foreseen to exceed the affected employees of these results in permissible exposure limit prescribed in action level. writing either individually or by paragraph (c) of this section, the (4) Changes in monitoring frequency. posting of results in an appropriate employer shall use them to reduce If either the initial or the periodic location that is accessible to affected employee exposure to or below 0.5 fiber monitoring required by paragraphs (d)(2) employees. per cubic centimeter.of air (as an eight- and (d)(3) of this section statistically (ii) The written notification required hour time-weighted average) and shall indicates that employee exposures are by paragraph (d)(7)(i) of this section supplement them by the use of any below the action level, the employer shall contain the corrective . combination of respiratory protection may discontinue the monitoring for action being taken by the employer to that complies with the requirements of those employees whose exposures are reduce employee exposure to or below paragraph (g) of this section, work represented by such monitoring. the PEL, wherever monitoring results practices and feasible engineering (5) Additional monitoring. indicated that the PEL had been controls that will reduce employee ' Notwithstanding the provisions of exceeded. exposure to or below the permissible paragraphs (d)(2)(H) and (d)(4) of this (e) Regulated Areas.--(1) exposure limit prescribed in paragraph section, the employer shall institute the Establishment The employer shall (c.) of this.section: Coupling cutoff in exposure monitoring required under establish regulated areas wherever primary asbestos cement pipe paragraphs (d)(2)(i) and (d)(3) of this airborne concentrations of asbestos, manufacturing; sanding in primary and section whenever there has been a tremolite, anthophyllite. actinolite. or a secondary asbestos cement sheet change in the production, process, combination of these minerals are in manufacturing: grinding in primary and control equipment, personnel or work excess of the permissible exposure limit secondary friction product practices that may result in new or prescribed in paragraph (c) of this manufacturing; carding und spinning in additional exposures above the action section. dry textile processes: and grinding and level or when the employer has any (2) Demarcation. Regulated areas sanding in primary plastics reason to suspect that a change may shali-be demarcated from the rest of the manufacturing. result in new or additional exposures -workplace in any manner that minimizes (iv) Local exhaust ventilation. Local above the action level. the number of-persons who will be exhaust ventilation and dust collection (6) Method ofmonitoring, (i) All exposed to asbestos, tremolite, systems shall be designed, constructed, samples taken to satisfy the monitoring anthophyllite, or actinolite. installed, and maintained in accordance requirements of paragraph (d) shall be. . (3) Access. Access to regulated areas with good practices such as-thosc found personal samples collected following the shall be limited to authorized persons or in the American National Standard procedures specified in Appendix A. to persons authorized by the Act or Fundamentals Governing the.Design and (ii) All samples taken to satisfy the regulations issued pursuant thereto. Operation of Local Exhaust Systems, monitoring requirements of paragraph (4) Provision of respirators. Each ANSI Z9.2-1979. (d) shall be evaluated using the OSHA person entering a regulated area shall be (v) Particular tools. All hand-operated Reference Method (ORM) specified in supplied with and required to use a and power-operated tools which would- Appendix A of this section, or an respirator.selected in accordance with produce or. release fibers of asbestos, equivalent counting method. paragraph (g)(2) of this section. tremolite, anthophyllite, actinolite, or a (iii) If an equivalent method to the (5) Prohibited activities. The employer combination of these minerals so as. to ORM is used, the employer shall ensure shall ensure that employees do not eat, expose employees to. levels in excess of that the.method meets the following ' drink, smoke, chew tobacco or gum, or the exposure limit prescribed in criteria: - apply cosmetics in the regulated areas. paragraph (c) of this.section, such as, (A) Replicate exposure data used to (f) Methods of compliance.--(1) but not limited to, saws, scorers, establish equivalency are.collected in Engineering controls and work abrasive wheels, and drills, shall be side-by-side field and laboratory: practices, (i) The employer shall provided with local exhaust ventilation comparisons;: and institute engineering controls and work systems which comply with paragraph (B) The comparison indicates, that 90% practices to reduce and maintain (0(l)(iv) of this section. of the samples'collected in the range 0:5 employee exposure to or below the (vi) Wet methods.- Insofar as to 2.0 times the'permissible limit have an exposure timit'prescribed in paragraph practicable.'OsbeStos, tremolite, accuracy range of plus or minus 25 " (c) of this section, except to the extent anthophyllite, or actinolite shall be percent of the ORM.results with a 95% .. that such controls are not feasible. handled, mixed, applied, removed, cut,, confidence level as demonstrated by a (ii) Wherever the feasible engineering scored, or otherwise worked in a wet . statistically valid protocol; and : .. controls and work practices that can be state sufficient to prevent the emission: '.J ' (C) The equivalent method is - instituted are not Sufficient to reduce of airborne fibers so as to expose' documented and the results of the employee exposure to or below the employees to levels In excess of the comparison testing are maintained: permissible exposure limit prescribed in exposure limit prescribed.in paragraph (iv) To satisfy the monitoring paragraph (c) of this section, the (c) of this section, unless the usefulness requirements of paragraph (d) of this employer shall use them to reduce of the product would be diminished ` section, employers must ubc the results employee exposure to the lowest levels thereby. of monitoring analysis performed by .. achievable by. these controls and shall (vii) Materials containing asbestos, laboratories which have instituted supplement them by the use of tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite' quality assurance programs that include respiratory protection that complies shall not be applied by spray methods/ GLEASON-000982