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22756 Federal Register / Vol. 51, No. 119 / Friday. )une 20, 1966 / Rules and Regulations relate to asbestos exposure; the employee's (1) Demolition or salvage of structures and decontamination procedures representative level of exposure to asbestos, tremolile. anthophyllite, and .actinolite; a description of any personal protective and respiratory equipment used; and information from-previous medical examinations of the affected employee that Is not otherwise available to the physician. Making this Information available to the physician will where asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite Is present; (2) Removal or encapsulation of materials containing asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite; (3) Construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, or renovation of specified in the standard; and ensuring that engineering controls in use are in proper operating condition and are functioning properly. "Decontamination area" means an enclosed area adjacent and connected to the regulated area and consisting of aid in the evaluation of the employee's health structures, substrates, or portions an equipment room, shower area, and in relation to assigned duties and fitness to thereof, that contain asbestos, tremolite. clean room, which is used for the wear personal protective equipment, if required. The employer is required to obtain a written opinion from the examining physician containing the results of the medical examination; the physician's opinion ss to whether the employee has any detected anthophyllite, or actinolite; (4) Installation of products containing asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite; (5) Asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite spill/emergency cleanup; decontamination of workers, materials, and equipment contaminated with asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite. "Demolition" means the wrecking or taking out of any load-Bupporting medical conditions that would place the and structural member and any related employee at an Increased risk of exposure- (6) Transportation, disposal, storage, razing, removing, or stripping of related disease; any recommended limitations on the employee or on the use of personal protective equipment; and a statement that the employee Hbs been informed by the physician of the results of the medical examination and of any medical or containment of asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite.or products . containing asbestos, tremolite, anlhophyllite, or actinolite on the site or location at which construction activities asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite. or actinolite products. "Director" means the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of :: conditions related-to asbestos, tremolite. anlhophyllite, and actinolite exposure that require further explanation or treatment. This written opinion must not reveal specific findings or diagnoses unrelated to exposure to asbestos, tremolite. anlhophyllite, and actinolite. and a copy of the opinion must be provided to the affected employee. PART1926~{AMENDED] are performed. (b) Definitions. "Action level" means an airborne concentration of asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, actinolite, or a combination of these minerals of 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter (f/cc) of air calculated as an eight (6)-hour timeweighted average. "Asbestos" includes chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite asbestos, Health and Human Services, or designee. "Employee exposure" mean's that exposure to airborne asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, actinolite, or a combination of these minerals, that would occur tf the employee were not using respiratory protective equipment. "Equipment room (change room)" 5. An authority citation is added to anthophyllite asbestos, actinolite means a contaminated room located Subpart D of Part 1926, to read as asbestos, and any of these minerals that within the decontamination area that ia follows:. has been chemically treated and/or supplied with impermeable bags or Authority: Secs. 4,6.6 Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970,29 U.S.C. 653,65$, 657; Sec. 107, Contract Work Hours and altered. "Assistant Secretary" means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for containers for the disposal of contaminated protective clothing and equipment. Safety Standards Act (Construction Safety Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. "Fiber" means a particulate form of Act), 40 U.S.C. 333, and Secretary of Labor's Department of Labor, or designee asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or Orders 12-71 (36 FR 6754), 8-76.(41 FR 25059), or 9-63 (48 FR 35736), ss applicable: Sections 1926.55(c) and 1926.56 also issued under 29 CFR Part 1911. "Authorized person" means any person authorized by the employer and required by work duties to be present in regulated areas. actinolite, 5 micrometers or longer, with a length-to-diameter ratio of atleaBt 3 to 1. "High-efficiency particulate air 6. Paragraph (c) of $ 1926.55 is hereby "Clean room" means an (HEPA) filter" means a filter capable of revised to read as follows: uncontaminated room haying facilities trapping and retaining at least 99.97 1926.55 Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists. . *** for the storage of employees' street clothing and uncontaminated materials and equipment. percent of all monodispersed particles of 0.3 micrometers in diameter or larger. "Regulated area" means an area . (c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of thi9 ' section do not apply to the exposure of employees to airborne asbestos, tremolite. anthophyllite, or actinolite dust. Whenever any employee is exposed to airborne asbestos, tremolite. anthophyllite, or actinolite dust, the requirements of g 1926.58 of this title shall apply. 7. A new $ 1926.58 is added to Subpart D to read as follows: "Competent person" means one who is capable of identifying existing asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, or actinolite hazards in the workplace and who has the authority to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them, as specified in 29 CFR 1928.32(f). The duties of the competent person include at least the following: establishing the negative-pressure enclosure, ensuring its integrity, and controlling entry to and exit from the enclosure; supervising any established by the employer to demarcate areas where airborne concentrations of asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, actinolite, or a combination of these minerals exceed or can reasonably be expected to exceed' the permissible exposure limit. The regulated area may take the form of (1) a temporary enclosure, as required by paragraph (e)(6) of this section, or (2) an area demarcated in any manner that minimizes the number of employees g 1926.58 Asbestos, tremolite, employee exposure monitoring required exposed to asbestos, tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite. by the standard; ensuring that all anthophyllite, or actinolite. (a) Scope and application. This employees working within such an "Removal" means .the taking out or section applies to all. construction work enclosure wear the appropriate personal stripping of asbestos, tremolite, as defined in 29 CFR 1910.12(b). protective equipment, are trained in the anthophyllite, or actinolite or materials including But not limited to the use of appropriate methods of exposure containing asbestos, termolite, following: control, and use the hygiene facilities anthophyllite. or actinolite. GLEASON-001004