(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall engage in any asbestos hazard abatement activities in this state unless licensed or certified pursuant to this chapter.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3710.05

  • Asbestos: means the asbestiform varieties of serpentine (chrysotile), riebeckite (crocidolite), cummingtonite-grunerite, anthophylite, and actinolite-tremolite as determined using the method specified in 40 C. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Asbestos hazard abatement air-monitoring technician: means the person who is responsible for environmental monitoring or work area clearance air sampling, including air monitoring performed to determine completion of response actions under the rules set forth in 40 C. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Asbestos hazard abatement contractor: means a business entity or public entity that engages in or intends to engage in asbestos hazard abatement projects and that employs or supervises one or more asbestos hazard abatement specialists for asbestos hazard abatement activities. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Asbestos hazard abatement project: includes any such activity involving such friable asbestos-containing materials in an amount of fifty linear feet or fifty square feet or less if, when combined with any other reasonably related activity in terms of time or location of the activity, the total amount is in an amount greater than fifty linear feet or fifty square feet. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Asbestos hazard abatement specialist: means a person with responsibility for the oversight or supervision of asbestos hazard abatement activities, including asbestos hazard abatement project managers, hazard abatement project supervisors and foremen, and employees of school districts or other governmental or public entities who coordinate or directly supervise or oversee asbestos hazard abatement activities performed by school district, governmental, or other public employees in school district, governmental, or other public buildings. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Asbestos hazard evaluation specialist: means a person responsible for the inspection, identification, detection, and assessment of asbestos-containing materials or suspect asbestos-containing materials, the determination of appropriate response actions, or the preparation of asbestos management plans for the purpose of protecting the public health from the hazards associated with exposure to asbestos, including the performance of air and bulk sampling. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Business entity: means a partnership, firm, association, corporation, sole proprietorship, or other business concern. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • License: means a document issued by the director of environmental protection to a business entity or public entity affirming that the entity has met the requirements set forth in this chapter to engage in asbestos hazard abatement projects as an asbestos hazard abatement contractor. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Person: means any individual, business entity, governmental body, or other public or private entity. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Public entity: means the state or any of its political subdivisions or any agency or instrumentality of either. See Ohio Code 3710.01
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59

(B) To apply for licensure as an asbestos hazard abatement contractor or certification as an asbestos hazard abatement specialist, an asbestos hazard evaluation specialist, an asbestos hazard abatement project designer, or an asbestos hazard abatement air-monitoring technician, a person shall do all of the following:

(1) Submit a completed application to the director of environmental protection, on a form provided by the agency;

(2) Pay the requisite fee as provided in division (D) of this section;

(3) Submit any other information the director by rule requires.

(C) The application form for a business entity or public entity applying for an asbestos hazard abatement contractor’s license shall include all of the following:

(1) A description of the protective clothing and respirators that the public entity will use to comply with rules adopted by the director and that the business entity will use to comply with requirements of the United States occupational safety and health administration;

(2) A description of procedures the business entity or public entity will use for the selection, utilization, handling, removal, and disposal of clothing to prevent contamination or recontamination of the environment and to protect the public health from the hazards associated with exposure to asbestos;

(3) The name and address of each asbestos disposal site that the business entity or public entity might use during the year;

(4) A description of the site decontamination procedures that the business entity or public entity will use;

(5) A description of the asbestos hazard abatement procedures that the business entity or public entity will use;

(6) A description of the procedures that the business entity or public entity will use for handling waste containing asbestos;

(7) A description of the air-monitoring procedures that the business entity or public entity will use to prevent contamination or recontamination of the environment and to protect the public health from the hazards of exposure to asbestos;

(8) A description of the final clean-up procedures that the business entity or public entity will use;

(9) A list of all partners, owners, and officers of the business entity along with their social security numbers;

(10) The federal tax identification number of the business entity or the public entity.

(D) The fees to be charged to each public entity, except for the agency, and each business entity and their employees and agents for licensure, certification, approval, and renewal of licenses, certifications, and approvals granted under this chapter, subject to division (A)(4) of section 3710.02 of the Revised Code, are:

(1) Seven hundred fifty dollars for asbestos hazard abatement contractors;

(2) Two hundred dollars for asbestos hazard abatement project designers;

(3) Fifty dollars for asbestos hazard abatement workers;

(4) Two hundred dollars for asbestos hazard abatement specialists;

(5) Two hundred dollars for asbestos hazard evaluation specialists; and

(6) Nine hundred dollars for approval or renewal of asbestos hazard training providers.

(E) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, no business entity that engages in asbestos hazard abatement projects solely at its own place of business is required to be licensed as an asbestos hazard abatement contractor provided that the business entity is required to and does comply with all applicable standards of the United States environmental protection agency and the United States occupational safety and health administration and provided further that all persons employed by the business entity on the project meet the requirements of this chapter.

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