CC RES 96-028 RESOLUTION RETAINING A HEALTH CONSULTING FIRM

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• PROPOSAL FOR COMPREHENSIVE ASBESTOS INSPECTION PROFILE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY INTRODUCTION As a public health consulting firm,the Institute for Environmental Assessment(IEA)provides a continuum of asbestos management services for public and private building owners. IEA provides these services to promote a safe, healthy and lawful building environment for workers and tenants, " The inspection profile assessment service provides an audit of asbestos-containing materials within the building. Critical to the completion of an inspection profile is a thorough inspection of the property and accurate laboratory analysis. Inspections are conducted by federally-certified inspectors,and samples are analyzed by the Institute's analytical laboratory. Upon completion of laboratory analysis, a final report will be submitted to City of St. Anthony profiling the presence of asbestos including: location, type of material, amount of material, amount of damage and laboratory analysis. INSPECTION • The scope of the inspection will address all readily accessible suspected asbestos-containing building � materials. For purposes of this survey, accessible" will include all occupied spaces as well as - fan/mechanical rooms, vertical/horizontal pipe shafts and tunnels, and storage rooms. The inspection includes the following: = • Visual examination of all suspected material. • Physical touching of all suspected material. • Identification and written description of homogeneous areas of asbestos-containing building materials including approximate amounts of materials and amounts of damage in given functional spaces. SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS Bulk samples of accessible suspected materials will be collected and analyzed using recommended Environmental Protection Agency sampling and analytical protocols. Sampling will be conducted-in- a manner determined by the inspector to be sufficient to identify whether the suspect materials are asbestos-containing. Some materials may be "assumed" by the inspector to contain asbestos due to their characteristics, because they are inaccessible,or because sampling would be damaging to the material's appearance.