§ 25-7-502 — Definitions

Colorado § 25-7-502

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 25: Public
• Art.: Air Quality Control

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As used in this part 5, unless the context otherwise
requires:

(1) (a) Area of public access means any building, facility, or property, or a
portion thereof, that any member of the general public can enter or can be exposed
to asbestos from the area. Area of public access includes a single-family
residential dwelling and any facility that charges the general public a fee for
admission, such as any theater or arena.

(b) Repealed.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1)(a) of this section, a
single family residential dwelling shall not be considered an area of public access
for purposes of conducting asbestos abatement if the homeowner who resides in
the single family dwelling that is the homeowner's primary residence requests, on a
form provided by the division, that the single family dwelling not be considered an
area of public access.

(2) Asbestos means asbestiform varieties of chrysotile, amosite,
crocidolite, anthophyllite, tremolite, and actinolite.

(3) Asbestos abatement means any of the following:

(a) The wrecking or removal of structural members that contain friable
asbestos-containing material;

(b) The following practices intended to prevent the escape of asbestos fibers
into the atmosphere:

(I) Coating, binding, or resurfacing of walls, ceilings, pipes, or other
structures for the purpose of minimizing friable asbestos-containing material from
becoming airborne;

(II) Enclosing friable asbestos-containing material to make it inaccessible;

(III) Removal of friable asbestos-containing material from any pipe, duct,
boiler, tank, reactor, furnace, or other structural member;

(IV) Conducting a major spill response.

(4) Commission means the air quality control commission created by
section 25-7-104.

(5) Division means the division of administration in the department of
public health and environment.

(5.5) Facility means any institutional, commercial, public, industrial, school,
or residential structure; any installation; any building, including any structure,
installation, or building containing condominiums or individual dwelling units
operated as a residential cooperative; any ship; any railcar; and any active or
inactive waste disposal site.

(6) Friable asbestos-containing material means any material that contains
asbestos and when dry can be crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand
pressure and that contains more than one percent asbestos by weight, area, or
volume. The term includes nonfriable forms of asbestos after such previously
nonfriable material becomes damaged to the extent that when dry it can be
crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder by hand pressure.

(7) Person means any individual, any public or private corporation,
partnership, association, firm, trust, or estate, the state or any department,
institution, or agency thereof, any municipal corporation, county, city and county, or
other political subdivision of the state, or any other legal entity which is recognized
by law as the subject of rights and duties.

(7.5) Project manager means a person who has satisfied the experience
and academic training requirements set forth by the commission.

(8) (a) School means any institution that provides elementary or secondary
education.

(b) and (c) Repealed.

(9) State-owned or state-leased buildings means structures occupied by
any person which are either owned by the state or utilized by the state through
leases of one year's duration or longer.

(10) Structural member means any beam, ceiling, floor, or wall.

(11) Trained supervisor means an individual certified by the division to
supervise asbestos abatement pursuant to section 25-7-506.

Legislative History

Source: L. 87: Entire part R&RE, p. 1145, � 1, effective July 1. L. 88: (1) amended, p. 1016, � 2, effective June 11. L. 89: (8) amended, p. 1169, � 2, effective May 9. L. 94: (5), (8)(b), and (8)(c) amended, pp. 2787, 2702, �� 509, 258, effective July 1. L. 95: (7.5) added, p. 20, � 1, effective July 1. L. 2001: (1) and (6) amended, p. 772, � 4, effective June 1. L. 2005: (8)(c) repealed, p. 283, � 23, effective August 8. L. 2006: (1)(b) and (8)(b) repealed, p. 125, � 10, effective March 27. L. 2022: (1)(a) and (1)(c) amended and (3)(b)(IV) and (5.5) added, (HB 22-1232), ch. 362, p. 2592, � 4, effective August 10.