The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires local education agencies (LEAs), to designate a person, the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) designated person (DP), to be responsible for a number of asbestos-related activities, including the implementation of the plan for managing asbestos-containing building material (ACBM) in the school buildings and compliance with the federal asbestos regulations. EPA staff have observed that the quality of school asbestos programs depends heavily on the dedication and work of the AHERA DP.This crank and would-be politician is actually concerned with students' and staff's health and safety. Since nothing was mentioned about asbestos abatement during the high school renovation update at Monday night's commission meeting, I got even crankier. Has someone been designated as the AHERA DP? Where are the walls being knocked down and the plastic going up? Teachers, I know some of you read this blog. This is affecting your health too. All that commotion about ceiling tiles falling in the Activities Office, the picture of the leaking pipe, the "20 pound chunk" that fell from the ceiling in the auditorium. Where are you people?
http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/aq/asbestos/docs/AHERA_intro.pdf
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