Specification:Procedures for removing asbestos-containing materials

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Summary
A. This procedure covers the abatement of potential hazards relating to materials previously determined to contain asbestos and includes all work, materials and equipment required to:
 * 1) Remove asbestos-containing materials in negative pressure containment.
 * 2) Remove asbestos-containing materials using the glovebag method.
 * 3) Encapsulate asbestos-containing materials.

Definitions
A. Terminology:


 * 1) Abatement:  Procedures to control fiber release from asbestos-containing building materials. Includes removal, enclosure and encapsulation.
 * 2) Airlock:  A system for permitting ingress or egress of personnel or equipment without permitting movement of contaminated air between a contaminated area and an uncontaminated area; typically consisting of two curtained doorways far enough apart to allow all activities to occur within the airlock without workers or equipment contacting the walls or doorways.
 * 3) Air Monitoring:  The process of measuring the asbestos fiber content of a volume of air using National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) method 7400 "A", Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) using NIOSH method 7402, or other method approved by the Contracting Officer. Flow rate and sample volume shall be in accordance with the method chosen.
 * 4) Air monitoring Technician:  A person qualified by training or experience to collect air samples for asbestos. Must be familiar with sampling techniques, sampling equipment, calibration procedures and work practices useful for controlling air contamination.
 * 5) Amended Water:  Water to which a surfactant has been added.
 * 6) Asbestos-Containing Waste (including asbestos-contaminated materials):  Materials (including construction equipment and materials) either containing more than 1% by weight of asbestos, or contaminated with asbestos to a degree that handling the materials may reasonably be expected to give rise to exposure to airborne asbestos fibers.
 * 7) Authorized Visitor: The Contracting Officer or a representative of any regulatory or other agency having jurisdiction over the project.
 * 8) Certified Asbestos Supervisor: An individual certified by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries under WAC 296-65-012. This person shall be capable of identifying existing asbestos hazards in the work place and have the authority to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them, as specified in WAC 296-62-202(6). The duties of the asbestos supervisor include at least the following: Establishing the negative-pressure enclosure, mini-enclosure, glove bag, or any other engineering control used in an asbestos removal or encapsulation operation; ensuring the integrity of the control being used; supervising any employee monitoring required by the standard; ensuring that all employees involved in removal or encapsulation of asbestos wear the appropriate protective equipment, are trained in the use of appropriate methods of exposure control, and use the hygiene facilities and decontamination procedures specified in the standard; and ensuring that engineering controls in use are in proper operating condition and are functioning properly.
 * 9) Certified Asbestos Worker: An individual who has successfully completed at basic course of at least 32 hours on the health and safety aspects of the removal and encapsulation of asbestos including, but not limited to, Federal and State standards regarding protective clothing, respirator use, disposal, air monitoring, cleaning, and decontamination. That person is issued a certificate by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries and becomes a Qualified Asbestos Worker.
 * 10) Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H.): An industrial hygienist certified in Comprehensive Practice by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene
 * 11) Clean Room: An uncontaminated room which is part of the work decontamination enclosure system and adjoins uncontaminated areas of the building, with provisions for storage of workers' street clothes and clean protective equipment.
 * 12) Clearance: Refers to the point in time at which the airborne asbestos fiber concentration in the area has been shown to be acceptable for re-entry of personnel without respiratory or other personal protection.
 * 13) Containment Barrier:  An air-tight barrier, consisting of walls, floors and/or ceilings of sealed plastic sheeting, surrounding and sealing the outer perimeter of the work area.
 * 14) Contaminated Area:  The work area or any other area of the building with either an airborne asbestos level equal to or above 0.01 fibers/cc or visible uncontained deposits of asbestos-containing materials.
 * 15) Contaminated/Equipment Room: A contaminated area or room within the decontamination enclosure system which adjoins the work area, with provisions for storage of contaminated clothing or equipment.
 * 16) Contracting Officer: The person with the authority to enter into, administer, and/or terminate contracts and make related determinations and findings. The term includes certain authorized representatives of the Contracting Officer acting within the limits of their authority as delegated by the Contracting Officer.
 * 17) Curtained Doorway: A device to allow passage of personnel or equipment from one room to another while restricting air movement between the rooms; typically constructed by placing two or three overlapping sheets of plastic completely over an existing or temporarily framed doorway. The top of each sheet is secured along the top of the doorway, and opposing vertical edges of the sheets are secured along vertical sides of the doorway.
 * 18) Decontamination Enclosure System: A system typically consisting of a clean room, an equipment/waste removal room, a shower, and a contaminated/equipment room (each separated from adjoining spaces by curtained doorways), permitting workers, equipment and waste to exit or be removed from contaminated areas without carrying out asbestos fibers to uncontaminated areas.
 * 19) Disposal: All procedures necessary to transport the asbestos-contaminated material removed from the building and deposit it in a waste disposal site in compliance with applicable Federal, State, and local regulations.
 * 20) Disposal Site: A site approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state and local hazardous waste control agencies for the disposal of asbestos-containing wastes. (Class I or II).
 * 21) Encapsulation: All procedures necessary to coat all asbestos-containing materials with an encapsulant to prevent the dispersal of asbestos fibers into the air.
 * 22) Enclosure: All procedures necessary to enclose all asbestos-containing materials behind an air-tight barrier with no anticipation of, or provision for, penetration of the enclosure for maintenance or any other reason.
 * 23) Equipment/Waste Removal Room: A room within the decontamination enclosure system which is between the shower room and the uncontaminated area. A room through which decontaminated equipment and waste containers are removed.
 * 24) Glove Bag: Clean plastic bags made for removing asbestos-containing pipe lagging with attached gloves and tool pouch.
 * 25) Fixed Object: A unit of equipment or furniture in the work area or beneath the work area which cannot be removed from the work area.
 * 26) HEPA Filter: A High Efficiency Particulate Absolute filter capable of trapping and retaining 99.97% of particles with aerodynamic equivalent diameters greater than or equal to 0.3 micrometers.
 * 27) HEPA Vacuum Equipment: Vacuuming equipment equipped with a HEPA filter in the exhaust outlet, and so designed and maintained that 99.97% of particles with aerodynamic equivalent diameters greater than or equal to 0.3 micrometers in the inlet air are collected and retained. In no case shall the HEPA vacuum equipment permit the discharge of air containing more than 0.01 fibers/cc.
 * 28) Industrial Hygienist: A person qualified by training and/or experience to specify measures for the recognition, evaluation, and control of occupational health hazards. In this experience (satisfactory to the Contracting Officer) in the management of asbestos exposure reduction.
 * 29) Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS): Information on a product, supplied by the manufacturer, which provides the information listed in 29 CFR 1910.1200 (9)(2).
 * 30) Movable Object: A unit of equipment or furniture in or beneath the work area which can be removed.
 * 31) Negative Pressure:  A minimum pressure differential of 0.02 inch of water column relative to areas adjacent to the work area, or such other measure or observation as specified by the Contracting Officer. Equipment used to maintain negative pressure shall be HEPA-filtered, and shall permit discharge of no more than 0.01 fibers/cc in the exhaust air stream.
 * 32) Overlapped Joint Doorway:  A joint (seam) in the plastic, overlapped by 36 inches or more, used for worker and material entrance and exit from the containment barrier around a removal operation.
 * 33) Post-Abatement Surface Sealer (Encapsulant):  A liquid which can be applied to surfaces from which asbestos has been removed and which controls the possible release of residual fibers from the surface by penetrating into the material and binding its components together.
 * 34) Removal: All procedures necessary to remove asbestos-containing materials from designated areas in a safe manner, and dispose of these materials at a disposal site.
 * 35) Shower Room: A room between the clean room and the equipment room in the worker decontamination enclosure system, with hot and cold or warm running water suitably arranged for complete showering and washing of equipment during decontamination. The shower room comprises an airlock between contaminated and dean areas.
 * 36) Smoke Tube Method: A method of qualitatively testing the direction and velocity of air flows utilizing titanium tetrachloride (or equivalent) ventilation smoke tubes.
 * 37) Surfactant: A chemical wetting agent added to water to improve penetration, thus reducing the amount of water required for a given operation or area, and enhancing the effect of the water in reducing fiber release.
 * 38) Transport: Hauling of asbestos-containing wastes from the building to the disposal site and deposit of the wastes therein by a firm currently approved by the EPA for the transport of hazardous wastes and approved by any state or local agencies having jurisdiction.
 * 39) Wet Cleaning: The process of eliminating asbestos contamination from building surfaces and objects by using cloths and mops or other cleaning tools that have been dampened with clean water.
 * 40) Work Area: An isolated area or the building where the abatement activities are performed, isolated from non-work areas by negative pressure, and a containment barrier and, depending on the type of removal, a decontamination enclosure system. The inside of the barrier and of the decontamination enclosure system are part of the work area.

Submittals
A. Product Data: Submit complete product information for any materials and products for which the Contractor requests approval for use on this Job. This shall include the following: B. Design Data/Test Reports/Certificates: Submit following information to General Contractor for inclusion into bid package as required. Submit following information as part of project submittals.
 * 1) Product Data: Submit manufacturer's technical information including label analysis and application instructions for each material proposed for use.
 * 2) Performance Warrantee: Submit manufacturers performance guarantee.
 * 3) Material Safety Data Sheet:  Submit the Material Safety Data Sheet, or equivalent for each surfactant and encapsulating material proposed for use on the work. Include a separate attachment for each sheet indicating the specific worker protective equipment proposed for use with the material indicated.
 * 1) Qualifications and Experience: A statement which demonstrates the Contractors qualifications and experience, which shall include, as minimum, the following elements:
 * 2) *a. Name and location of at least three asbestos abatement projects the size and complexity similar to this project performed by the Contractor, including name and telephone number of contract representative.
 * 3) *b. Copies of pages from daily logs and monitoring reports including final decontamination levels, of the last two abatement projects of the size and complexity similar to this project. Logs and monitoring reports shall cover a minimum of five consecutive work days for at least the different periods during construction. The intent of this documentation is to provide sufficient quantity and detail to clearly demonstrate adequacy of and familiarity with this reporting procedure.
 * 4) *c. Name of and experience recorded of superintendent and foreman. Include evidence of knowledge of applicable regulations; evidence of participation and successful completion of EPA approved training course in asbestos removal and/or supervision of asbestos related work; and experience with asbestos related work in a supervisory position as evidenced through supervision of at least two asbestos abatement contracts.
 * 5) *d. Name and experience of workmen who will be assigned to this project. Include for each person the location of last two abatement projects, and evidence of successful completion of in-house training given by qualified superintendent or foreman, or its equivalent. Provide copy of in-house training course outline and attendance record for all employees who will be working on the project with Project Submittals.
 * 6) *e. Submit with Project Submittals written proof indicating that all employees have had certification training as required under Washington State law and written proof that the designated Certified Asbestos Supervisor (CAS) has certification of CAS training as required under Washington State law. Photocopies of CAW cards and CAS certification will be acceptable.
 * 7) A statement of the qualifications and experience of the Certified Industrial Hygienist and air-monitoring technicians. Include the following elements:
 * 8) *a. A record of experience qualifying the Certified Industrial Hygienist as a professional and specialist in asbestos abatement. As a minimum this shall include a resume, review of previous industrial hygiene experience in worker training, in asbestos abatement projects including the name and address of the purchaser of the service, location of the work performed, and a review of the industrial hygiene activities performed for each job.
 * 9) *b. Submit, for each technician who will collect and document air quality on this project, a description of his/her training in asbestos air monitoring and a review of previous air monitoring experience in asbestos removal projects, including the name and address of the purchaser of the service, location of the work performed and a review of all air monitoring and other inspection activities performed for each job.
 * 10) *c. Submit a statement for each person who may be doing analysis indicating the qualifications, training program and experience in asbestos air sample analysis, analytical methods used, dates of training, and average number of asbestos samples analyzed per month in the last year. Also indicate what percentage of samples the Contractor proposes to analyze on site for this project.
 * 11) *d. A statement indicating the industrial hygienist's and/or air-monitoring technician's degree of authority for this project for effecting corrective actions (such as stop work orders) deemed necessary in his/her judgment.
 * 12) *e. Submit proof of accreditation by the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) for asbestos work and certification that persons analyzing the samples have been judged proficient by successful participation in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Proficiency Analytical Testing (PAT) Program, shall be considered sufficient proof of compliance. Submittal must be approved by the Contracting Officer prior to beginning any testing. Accreditation by the National Voluntary Laboratory Analytical Program (NVLAP) is required if transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is conducted for asbestos analysis.
 * 13) Negative Air Machine System patent License: The specified system for asbestos containment and removal using reduced pressurization and filtration is covered by U.S. Patent No. 4,604,111, issued August 5,1986 and reaffirmed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences on March 31,1989.
 * 14) *a. All potential Contractors using the system shall provide for the use of the above-referenced patent, under this contract, by submitting written proof of a current license, prior to Opening of the Contractors bid.
 * 15) *b. All inquiries with respect to the scope of aforementioned patent, the rights thereunder, and application of a duly authorized license, may be directed to: GPAC, Inc. 7854 Browning Road Pennsauken, NJ 08109 (609) 486-1555
 * 16) *c. Other pressure differential air machine systems with equal or better performance records can be proposed to substitute for the GPAC system. Documentation and manufacturer's specifications must be provided which substantiates that the equipment can perform as specific herein. The Government reserves the right to deny the substitution if documentation is insufficient.
 * 17) *d. Contractor shall be wholly responsible for any and all patent rights infringement cases created from misuse of misrepresentation of pressure differential systems.
 * 18) Regulatory/Litigation/Work Status: A statement containing the following information:
 * 19) *a. A record of any citations or violations issued by any regulatory or legal agency concerning performance on a hazardous materials abatement contracts in the last five (5) years. For each such occurrence, briefly describe the circumstances, citing the project, person involved, type of citation/violation, agency involved and resolution.
 * 20) *b. A list of all occasions in the last five (5) years in which the firm has been issued a Stop Work Order due to negligence or noncompliance with hazardous materials abatement or related project specifications. Briefly describe the circumstances and outcome of each occurrence, including liquidated damages, overruns in scheduled time limitations, and resolutions.
 * 21) *c. A description of all situations in the last five (5) years in which a hazardous materials-related contract has been terminated, specifying project, dates and reason for termination.
 * 22) *d. Listing of any hazardous materials-related litigation or arbitration in the last five (5) years in which the Offeror (or any of its employees proposed for work on this project) has participated or is currently involved arising out of performance on an asbestos related contract. Include descriptions of role, issue, and resolution to date including any liquidated damages assessed, Note that participation in litigation or arbitration is not in and of itself a disqualifying factor, since, for example, it may reflect assertion of Offerer's rights.
 * 23) Insurance Status: A statement regarding the Offeror's insurance status, including at least the following elements:
 * 24) *a. Proof of coverage under the State Workers Compensation insurance system.
 * 25) *b. Certificate of general liability insurance. Such insurance must be shown to be acknowledged by the insurance company to be specific for asbestos-related occupational disease and sickness or death as well as other occupational disease or death, personal injury and property damage. "Occurrence" claim provisions are preferable; identify whether insurance has "occurrence" or "claims made" provisions. Specify coverage limits and identify and exclusions to the coverage. If not currently covered by such insurance, provide a copy of the most recent certificate by such insurance and a statement from an insurer that such insurance will be provided if the offerer is awarded this contract.
 * 26) Submit the following information with Project Submittal and obtain written approval PRIOR TO COMMENCEMENT OF WORK by the Contracting officer no  later than 15 days after award of the Contract.
 * 27) *a. Plan of Action: Submit a plan of action for handling asbestos and other hazardous materials throughout the project. This plan shall contain at least:
 * 28) *# The items listed in Section 01546, Paragraph 1.5C, Subparagraphs one through ten.
 * 29) *# Procedures proposed for use in complying with the regulations and requirements