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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" citation="COMAR 26.11.21.01" title_num="26" subtitle_num="11" chapter_num="21" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>“Asbestos project” means any activity involving the demolition, renovation, or encapsulation of friable asbestos materials.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>“Business entity” means a partnership, firm, association, corporation, sole proprietorship, or other business concern.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>“Demolition” means the wrecking or taking out of any load-supporting structural member and any related removing or stripping of friable asbestos materials.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>“Encapsulate” means to coat, bind, or resurface walls, ceilings, pipes, or other structures to prevent friable asbestos from becoming airborne.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>“Friable asbestos material” means any material that contains more than 1 percent asbestos by weight and that can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder, when dry, by hand pressure.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>“License” means any authorization issued by the Department to encapsulate or remove asbestos.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>“Maryland Air Management Administration” means that unit of the Department of the Environment responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the State air quality control regulations.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>“Negative pressure system” means equipment that ensures that the static pressure in an enclosed work area is lower than that of the environment outside the containment barriers.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>“Operations and maintenance (O and M)” means the removal, encapsulation, or disturbance of friable asbestos-containing materials when the amount of material is less than 10 square feet or 20 linear feet and is associated with small repairs or maintenance.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="J.">
    <text>“Person”, as defined in Environment Article, §§1-101 and 2-101, Annotated Code of Maryland, includes any business entity or public unit.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="K.">
    <text>“Public unit” means:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Any agency, bureau, department, or instrumentality of State government that is not subject to Executive Order 01.01.1987.22;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Any agency, bureau, department, or instrumentality of federal or local government;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Educational institutions that are not subject to Executive Order 01.01.1987.22; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Any public, quasi-public, or municipal corporation.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="L.">
    <text>“Renovation” means the removal or stripping of friable asbestos materials used on any pipe, duct, boiler, tank, reactor, turbine, furnace, or structural member. Operations in which load-supporting structural members are wrecked or taken out are excluded.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="M.">
    <text>“Structural member” means any load-supporting member, such as beams and load-supporting walls, or any nonsupporting member, such as ceilings and nonload-supporting walls.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="N.">
    <text>“Supervisor” means an individual responsible for:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Asbestos abatement project planning, oversight, or contracting; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Directing the work of others involved in asbestos abatement work.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="O.">
    <text>“Three stage decontamination station” means a series of three enclosures consisting of a:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Clean room;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Shower room; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Contaminated room for removal of disposable clothing and storage of contaminated equipment.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="P.">
    <text>“Worker” means an individual actually involved in the removal or encapsulation of friable asbestos material and who will come into contact with friable asbestos.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>