NR 447.02(23)
(23) “Leak-tight" means designed or constructed so that solids or liquids, including dust, cannot escape or spill out.
NR 447.02(24)
(24) “Malfunction" means any sudden and unavoidable failure of air pollution control equipment or process equipment or of a process to operate in a normal or usual manner so that emissions of asbestos are increased.“Malfunction" does not include failures of equipment if they are caused in any way by poor maintenance, careless operation or any other preventable upset conditions, equipment breakdown or process failure.
NR 447.02(25)
(25) “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 material, including commercial asbestos, and the processing of this combination into a product. Chlorine production is considered a part of manufacturing.
NR 447.02(26)
(26) “Natural barrier" means a natural object that effectively precludes or deters access. Natural barriers include physical obstacles such as cliffs, lakes or other large bodies of water, deep and wide ravines, and mountains. Remoteness by itself is not a natural barrier.
NR 447.02(27)
(27) “Nonfriable ACM" means any material containing more than 1% asbestos as determined using the method specified in Appendix E to Subpart E,
40 CFR part 763, section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy, incorporated by reference in
s. NR 484.04 (28), that, when dry, cannot be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure.
NR 447.02(28)
(28) “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.
NR 447.02(29)
(29) “Outside air" means the air outside buildings and structures, including, but not limited to, the air under a bridge or in an open air ferry dock.
NR 447.02(30)
(30) “Owner or operator of a demolition or renovation activity" means any person who owns, leases, operates, controls or supervises the facility being demolished or renovated or any person who owns, leases, operates, controls or supervises the demolition or renovation operation, or both.
NR 447.02(31)
(31) “Particulate asbestos material" means finely divided particles of asbestos or asbestos-containing material.
NR 447.02(32)
(32) “Planned renovation operations" means a renovation operation, or a number of such operations, in which some RACM will be removed or stripped within a given period of time and that can be predicted. “Planned renovation operations" includes individual nonscheduled renovation operations if a number of such operations can be predicted to occur during a given period of time based on operating experience.
NR 447.02(33)
(33) “Regulated asbestos-containing material" or “RACM" means:
NR 447.02(33)(c)
(c) Category I nonfriable ACM that will be or has been subjected to sanding, grinding, cutting or abrading; or
NR 447.02(33)(d)
(d) Category II nonfriable ACM that has a high probability of becoming or has become crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by the forces expected to act on the material in the course of demolition or renovation operations regulated by this chapter.
NR 447.02(34)
(34) “Remove" means to take out RACM or facility components that contain or are covered with RACM from any facility.
NR 447.02(35)
(35) “Renovation" means altering a facility or one or more facility components in any way, including the stripping or removal of RACM from a facility component.
NR 447.02 Note
Note: Operations in which load-supporting structural members are wrecked or taken out are demolitions.
NR 447.02(36)
(36) “Resilient floor covering" means asbestos-containing floor tile, including asphalt and vinyl floor tile and sheet vinyl floor covering containing more than 1% asbestos as determined using polarized light microscopy according to the method specified in Appendix E to Subpart E,
40 CFR part 763, section 1, Polarized Light Microscopy, incorporated by reference in
s. NR 484.04 (28).
NR 447.02(37)
(37) “Roadways" means surfaces on which vehicles travel. This term includes public and private highways, roads, streets, parking areas and driveways.
NR 447.02(38)
(38) “Strip" means to take off RACM from any part of a facility or facility component.
NR 447.02(39)
(39) “Structural member" means any load supporting member of a facility, such as beams and load supporting walls; or any non-load supporting member, such as ceilings and non-load supporting walls.
NR 447.02(40)
(40) “Visible emissions" means any emissions, which are visually detectable without the aid of instruments, coming from RACM or asbestos-containing waste material, or from any asbestos milling, manufacturing or fabricating operation. This does not include condensed, uncombined water vapor.
NR 447.02(41)
(41) “Waste generator" means any owner or operator of a source covered by this chapter whose act or process produces asbestos-containing waste material.
NR 447.02(43)
(43) “Working day" means Monday through Friday and includes holidays that fall on any of the days Monday through Friday.
NR 447.02 History
History: Cr.
Register, October, 1992, No. 442, eff. 11-1-92; am. (intro.), (1) (a), (16), (27), (36), r. (4),
Register, December, 1995, No. 480, eff. 1-1-96; am. (3),
Register, November, 1999, No. 527, eff. 12-1-99;
CR 02-097: renum. NR 445.02 (2) to be NR 447.02 (4), am. (intro.) Register June 2004 No. 582, eff. 7-1-04. NR 447.03(1)
(1) Each owner or operator of an asbestos mill shall either discharge no visible emissions to the outside air from that asbestos mill, including fugitive sources, or use the methods specified by
s. NR 447.15 to clean emissions containing particulate asbestos material before they escape to, or are vented to, the outside air.
NR 447.03(2)
(2) Each owner or operator of an asbestos mill shall meet all of the following requirements:
NR 447.03(2)(a)
(a) Monitor each potential source of asbestos emissions from any 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 operation. The monitoring shall be by visual observation of at least 15 seconds duration per source of emissions.
NR 447.03(2)(b)
(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 according to this section, submit to the department, and revise as necessary, a written maintenance plan to include, at a minimum, the following:
NR 447.03(2)(c)
(c) Maintain records of the results of visible emissions monitoring and air cleaning device inspections and include the following:
NR 447.03(2)(c)3.
3. Condition of fabric filters, including presence of any tears, holes and abrasions.
NR 447.03(2)(c)5.
5. Brief description of corrective actions taken, including date and time.
NR 447.03(2)(d)
(d) Furnish upon request, and make available at the affected facility during normal business hours for inspection by the department, all records required under this section.
NR 447.03(2)(e)
(e) Retain a copy of all monitoring and inspection records for at least 2 years.
NR 447.03(2)(f)
(f) Submit quarterly a copy of visible emission monitoring records to the department if visible emissions occurred during the report period. Quarterly reports shall be postmarked by the 30th day following the end of the calendar quarter.
NR 447.03 History
History: Cr.
Register, October, 1992, No. 442, eff. 11-1-92.
NR 447.04(1)
(1) Except as provided in
sub. (2) no person may construct or maintain a roadway with asbestos tailings or asbestos-containing waste material on that roadway.
NR 447.04(2)
(2) A person may use asbestos tailings in the construction or maintenance of a roadway only if any one of the following applies:
NR 447.04(2)(a)
(a) It is a temporary roadway on an area of asbestos ore deposits (asbestos mine).
NR 447.04(2)(b)
(b) It is a temporary roadway at an active asbestos mill site and is encapsulated with resinous or bituminous binder. The encapsulated road surface shall be maintained at a minimum frequency of once per year to prevent dust emissions.
NR 447.04(2)(c)
(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-92, 1992, incorporated by reference in
s. NR 484.06 (3), or their equivalent.
NR 447.04 History
History: Cr.
Register, October, 1992, No. 442, eff. 11-1-92; am. (2) (c),
Register, December, 1995, No. 480, eff. 1-1-96.
NR 447.05(1)
(1)
Applicability. This section applies to the following manufacturing operations using commercial asbestos:
NR 447.05(1)(a)
(a) The manufacture of cloth, cord, wicks, tubing, tape, twine, rope, thread, yarn, roving, lap or other textile materials.
NR 447.05(1)(c)
(c) The manufacture of fireproofing and insulating materials.
NR 447.05(1)(g)
(g) The manufacture of paints, coatings, caulks, adhesives and sealants.
NR 447.05(1)(i)
(i) The manufacture of chlorine utilizing asbestos diaphragm technology.
NR 447.05(2)
(2) Standard. Each owner or operator of any of the manufacturing operations to which this section applies shall:
NR 447.05(2)(a)1.
1. Discharge no visible emissions to the outside air from these operations or from any building or structure in which they are conducted or from any other fugitive sources; or
NR 447.05(2)(a)2.
2. Use the methods specified by
s. NR 447.15 to clean emissions from these operations containing particulate asbestos material before they escape to, or are vented to, the outside air.
NR 447.05(2)(b)
(b) Monitor each potential source of asbestos emissions from any part of the manufacturing facility, including air cleaning devices, process equipment and buildings housing material processing and handling equipment, at least once each day during daylight hours for visible emissions to the outside air during periods of operation. The monitoring shall be by visual observation of at least 15 seconds duration per source of emissions.
NR 447.05(2)(c)
(c) 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 according to this paragraph, submit to the department, and revise as necessary, a written maintenance plan to include, at a minimum, the following:
NR 447.05(2)(d)
(d) Maintain records of the results of visible emission monitoring and air cleaning device inspections in a format acceptable to the department and include the following:
NR 447.05(2)(d)3.
3. Condition of fabric filters, including presence of any tears, holes and abrasions.
NR 447.05(2)(d)5.
5. Brief description of corrective actions taken, including date and time.
NR 447.05(2)(e)
(e) Furnish upon request, and make available at the affected facility during normal business hours for inspection by the department, all records required under this section.
NR 447.05(2)(f)
(f) Retain a copy of all monitoring and inspection records for at least 2 years.
NR 447.05(2)(g)
(g) Submit quarterly a copy of the visible emission monitoring records to the department if visible emissions occurred during the report period. Quarterly reports shall be postmarked by the 30th day following the end of the calendar quarter.
NR 447.05 History
History: Cr.
Register, October, 1992, No. 442, eff. 11-1-92.
NR 447.06
NR 447.06 Demolition and renovation; applicability. NR 447.06(1)(1)
Pre-inspection. To determine which requirements of this section and
ss. NR 447.07 and
447.08 apply to the owner or operator of a demolition or renovation activity, the owner or operator shall, prior to the commencement of the demolition or renovation, thoroughly inspect the affected facility or part of the facility where the demolition or renovation operation will occur for the presence of asbestos, including Category I and Category II nonfriable ACM.
NR 447.06(2)
(2) Applicability. The requirements of
ss. NR 447.07 and
447.08 apply to each owner or operator of a demolition or renovation activity, including the removal of RACM as follows:
NR 447.06(2)(a)
(a) In a facility being demolished, all the requirements of
ss. NR 447.07 and
447.08 apply, except as provided in
par. (c), if the combined amount of RACM meets any of the following:
NR 447.06(2)(a)1.
1. At least 80 linear meters (260 linear feet) on pipes or at least 15 square meters (160 square feet) on other facility components; or
