HB4057eng 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB4057 Engrossed LRB093 15084 AMC 40672 b

AN ACT concerning asbestos abatement.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Commercial and Public Building Asbestos Abatement Act is amended by changing Sections 15 and 35 as follows:

(225 ILCS 207/15)

Sec. 15. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Asbestos abatement contractor" means any entity that provides removal, enclosure, encapsulation, or disposal of asbestos containing materials.

"Asbestos containing building materials" or "ACBM" means surfacing asbestos containing materials or ACM, thermal system insulation ACM, or miscellaneous ACM that is found in or on interior structural members or other parts of a building.

"Asbestos" means the asbestiform varieties of chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, anthrophyllite, and actinolite.

"Asbestos inspector" means an individual who performs inspections of commercial and public buildings for the presence of asbestos containing materials.

"Asbestos materials" means any material or product that contains more than 1% asbestos.

"Asbestos consultant" means a person offering expert or professional advice as an asbestos professional or designated person.

"Asbestos professional" means an individual who is licensed by the Department to perform the duties of an inspector, management planner, project designer, project supervisor, project manager, or air sampling professional, as applicable, except project supervisors under the direct employ of a licensed asbestos abatement contractor.

"Asbestos supervisor" means an asbestos abatement contractor, foreman, or person designated as the asbestos abatement contractor's representative who is responsible for the onsite supervision of the removal, encapsulation, or enclosure of friable or nonfriable asbestos-containing materials in a commercial or public building.

"Asbestos worker" means an individual who cleans, removes, encapsulates, encloses, hauls, or disposes of friable asbestos material.

"Building/facility owner" is the legal entity, including a lessee, that exercises control over management and record keeping functions relating to a building or facility in which activities covered by this standard take place.

"Commercial or public building" means the interior space of any building, except that the term does not include any residential apartment building of fewer than 10 units or detached single family homes. The term includes, but is not limited to: industrial and office buildings, residential apartment buildings and condominiums of 10 or more dwelling units, government-owned buildings, colleges, museums, airports, hospitals, churches, schools, preschools, stores, warehouses, and factories. Interior space includes exterior hallways connecting buildings, porticos, and mechanical systems used to condition interior space.

"Department" means the Department of Public Health.

"Designated person" means a person designated by the local education agency, as defined by the Asbestos Abatement Act, to ensure that the management plan has been properly implemented.

"Director" means the Director of Public Health.

"Encapsulation" means the treatment of ACBM with a material that surrounds or embeds asbestos fibers in an adhesive matrix that prevents the release of fibers as the encapsulant creates a membrane over the surfaces (bridging encapsulant) or penetrates the material and binds its components together (penetrating encapsulant).

"Enclosure" means the construction of airtight walls and ceilings between the asbestos containing material and the building environment, or around surfaces coated with asbestos containing materials, or any other appropriate scientific procedure as determined by the Department that prevents the release of asbestos.

"Friable", when referring to material in a commercial or public building, means that the material, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure and includes previously nonfriable materials after such previously nonfriable material becomes damaged to the extent that, when dry, it may be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.

"Inspection" means an activity undertaken in a public or commercial building to determine the presence or location, or to assess the condition of, friable or nonfriable asbestos containing building material (ACBM) or suspected ACBM, whether by visual or physical examination, or by collecting samples of such material.

"Nonfriable" means material in a commercial or public building which, when dry, may not be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.

"Person" means any individual, group of individuals, association, trust, partnership, corporation, person doing business under an assumed name, or any other entity.

"Project designer" means an individual who designs response actions for commercial or public buildings.

"Response action" means a method, including removal, encapsulation, enclosure, repair, operations and maintenance, that protects human health and the environment from friable ACBM.

"Response action contractor" means any entity that engages in response action services.

"Response action services" means the service of designing and conducting removal, encapsulation, enclosure, repair, or operations and maintenance of friable asbestos containing building materials, inspection of public or commercial buildings, and inspection of asbestos containing materials. The term does not include the design or conducting of response actions that involve removal or possible disturbance of an amount of asbestos containing building material comprising less than 3 square feet or less than 3 lineal feet of other friable asbestos containing building material.

(Source: P.A. 89-143, eff. 7-14-95.)

(225 ILCS 207/35)

Sec. 35. Licensing.

(1) No person may act as an asbestos abatement contractor providing response action services unless the person is licensed as an Asbestos Abatement Contractor by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(2) No person may act as an asbestos supervisor providing response action services unless the person is licensed as a Supervisor by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(3) No person may act as a project designer providing response action services unless the person is licensed as a Project Designer by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(4) No person may act as an asbestos worker providing response action services unless the person is licensed as an Asbestos Worker or a Supervisor by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(5) No person may act as an asbestos inspector unless the person is licensed as an Asbestos Inspector by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(6) No person may act as an air sampling professional unless the person is licensed as an air sampling professional by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(7) No person may act as a project manager unless the person is licensed as a project manager by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(8) No person may act as a management planner unless the person is licensed as a management planner by the Department in accordance with the Asbestos Abatement Act and rules promulgated under it.

(9) Beginning January 1, 2005, no person may act as an asbestos consultant unless the person is licensed as a consultant by the Department in accordance with this Act and rules promulgated under it. The following are exempt from the licensure requirement of this subsection:

(A) An employee of a local education agency who is that local education agency's designated person.

(B) An employee of a State agency while he or she is engaged in his or her professional duties for that State agency.

(10) Individuals and entities that wish to be licensed shall make application on forms prescribed and furnished by the Department. Licenses shall expire annually according to a schedule determined by the Department. Applications for renewal of licenses shall be filed with the Department at least 30 days before the expiration date. When a licensure examination is required, the license application shall be submitted to the Department at least 30 days prior to the date of the scheduled examination. The Department shall evaluate each application based on its minimum standards for licensure, promulgated as rules, and render a decision. Such standards may include a requirement for the successful completion of a course of training approved by the Department. If the Department denies the application, the applicant may appeal the decision under the provisions of the Administrative Review Law.

(Source: P.A. 89-143, eff. 7-14-95.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.