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By MARK GROSSITHE FRESNO BEELast Updated: March 11, 2006, 05:23:32 AM PST
SAN FRANCISCO Carolina Simunovic this week gave federal bureaucrats a live reason why San Joaquin Valley residents worry about a proposed rollback of dust rules for rural residents. The Fresno-area resident held her 7-month-old daughter, Isabel... Asbestos-inspection rules relaxed for some demolitions...
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Asbestos-inspection rules relaxed for some demolitions
By MIKE DUNNE
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Published: Mar 11, 2006
Rules requiring pre-demolition inspections for asbestos are being relaxed for some hurricane-damaged homes, though the debris will have to be handled as if it contains the harmful material.Normally, only buildings that are “structurally unsound and in danger of imminent collapse” are freed from the asbestos-inspection requirement.But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently expanded that definition to include homes that have been washed off their foundations or are so flood-damaged that they must be torn down.EPA public affairs spokesman David Ryan in Washington, D.C., said the public’s health will be protected because the demolitions will be conducted as if there is asbestos.“Material must be disposed of in ... First Chapter 'The Weather Makers'...
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