Hazards asbestos

Provides for the assessment and mitigation of asbestos hazards in schools Investigates GSAs-ontroUed buildings for indoor air problems... 

Operating under contract to EPA, the TCSA Hotline provides technical assistance and information about programs under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), including the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA), the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), and the Lead Exposure Reduction Act. Hours 8 30 a.m. - 5 00 p.m. EST weekdays. 

Title II - Asbestos Hazard Emergency, Title III - Indoor Radon Abatement, and Title IV - Lead Exposure Reduction, deal with regulation of these specific substances. 

By 1979, the production of PCBs had been phased out because of the strict regulations of the TSCA. Only totally enclosed products that include PCBs are exempted. Also, a threshold of 50 parts per million (ppm) was established by the USEPA, as concentrations under that level do not cause unreasonable risk. Since the inception of these regulations, high levels of PCB concentrations have dropped from 12% of the American population in 1979 to nearly 0% in the late 1980s (Rosenbaum, 1995). In addition to PCBs, the TSCA has also been used to help reduce the unreasonable risk of asbestos in the environment. In 1986, the TSCA was amended to include the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act. The primary function of this act was to remove asbestos from the nation s schools, and it was passed in response to studies that found asbestos to be an airborne carcinogen. In 1989, the USEPA issued regulations that would phase out all uses of asbestos in commercial products by 1997. 

Indiana Regulations for asbestos hazards to the atmosphere and disposal of asbestos-containing waste licenses asbestos personnel IDEM 2001b... 

EPA. 2001a. Asbestos Hazard summary. Washington, DC U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air and Radiation. Http //www.ena.gov/ttnuatw 1 /hlthef/asbestos. html. January 18,2001. 

HSDB. 1999a. Asbestos. Hazardous Substances Data Bank. National Library of Medicine, National Toxicology Information Program, Bethesda, MD. June 16, 1999. 

The dangers of asbestos were at last exposed as well. While earlier publications had described associations between asbestos and cancer, the connection became widely accepted after a 1964 study by Irving Selikoff, director of a pioneering occupational and environmental health clinic at Mount Sinai Hospital. Selikoff had taken on the subject after noticing high cancer rates among asbestos workers treated at his clinic in New Jersey, and he campaigned passionately for control of asbestos hazards.13... 

London Hazards Centre (1995) Asbestos Hazards Handbook (1995) ISBN 0-948974-13-3. 

Interim Final Enforcement Response Policy for the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (Jan. 31,1989). 

EPA began to identify schools as a potential source of asbestos hazards in the 1970s, and it began a technical assistance program in 1979 to encourage... 

James C. Stanley, Note, Asbestos in Schools The Asbestos Hazard Emergency Re onse Act and School Asbestos Litigation, 42 Vand. L. Rev. 1685,1690 n.28 (1987). 

Review of Federal Efforts to Reduce Asbestos Hazards in Schools Hearing Before the House Subcomm. on Commerce, Transportation and Tourism of the H. Comm, on Energy and Commerce, 1 (Sept. 26, 1984) (Statement for the Record by Hugh J. Wessinger, Senior Associate Director Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, US. Gen. Accounting Office) [hereinafter Wessinger Statement]. 

In the first law dedicated to the issues of asbestos in schools, the Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980, Congress authorized the Department of Education to provide grants to schools to detect and abate asbestos hazards. 

CAUTION ASBESTOS. HAZARDOUS. DO NOT DISTURB WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT. ... 

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