§ 20-27-1001 — Purpose

The purpose of this subchapter is to protect the public health and safety and the environment and to qualify the Division of Environmental Quality to adopt, administer, and enforce a program for licensing training providers involved with the training of regulated asbestos professionals, for licensing asbestos abatement consultants and asbestos abatement contractors, and for certifying air monitors, contractor-supervisors, inspectors, management planners, project designers, and workers involved with demolitions, renovations, and asbestos-response actions in which regulated asbestos-containing materials are disturbed in accordance with this subchapter, the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act, § 8-4-101 et seq., and rules issued pursuant thereto.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2095, eff. 7/24/2019. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 3210, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1985, No. 394, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-1944; Acts 1987, No. 531, § 1; 1993, No. 817, § 1; 1997, No. 308, § 1; 1999, No. 1164, § 174.