Questions and CORRECT Answers
29 CFR 1910.12 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Construction work
29 CFR 1910.134 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Respiratory Protection
29 CFR 1910.1001 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Asbestos-General Industry
29 CFR 1926.1101 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Asbestos-Construction Industry
40 CFR 763.120,121 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔EPA Worker Protection Rule
40 CFR Parts 171 & 172 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Department of Transportation
(governing the transport and disposal of ACM)
40 CFR 61-Subpart A and Subpart M - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Pollutants (NESHAPS)
40 CFR Part 763 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Asbestos Hazardous Emergency Response Act
(AHERA)
40 CFR 61.145 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Standards for the demolition and renovation of
facilities
40 CFR 61.150 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Waste disposal for demolition and renovation
operations
AHERA - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Asbestos Hazardous Emergency Response Act
-Passed in 1986
-Public and private schools k-12
, AHERA Bulk sampling - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Area <1,000 sq ft = 3
Area >1,000 sq ft but <5,000 sq ft = 5
Area >5000 sq ft = 7
TSI not assumed to be ACBM - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔3
Patched TSI not assumed to be ACBM <6 linear or sq ft - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1
EPA categories of ACBM - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Surfacing Materials
Thermal System Insulation
Miscellaneous Materials
Friable ACBM - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Material that maybe crumbled, pulverized, or
reduced to powder by hand pressure
Primary sites of commercial asbestos production - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Canada
Russia
South Africa
Asbestos - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-Was not widely available in the world until the late
1800s
-WWI & WWII Military used asbestos extensively in ships and other applications
-Used largely because it is plentiful, readily available, cheap, strong, does not burn, conducts
heat and electricity poorly, resistant to chemical corrosion.
ACBM - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Asbestos Containing Building Material
Asbestos Minerals - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1.Serpentine
2.Amphibole