Asbestos resources.The Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics is renewing efforts to engage schools on their requirements under the Asbestos asbestos, mineral asbestos, common name for any of a variety of silicate minerals within the amphibole and serpentine groups that are fibrous in structure and more or less resistant to acid and fire. Hazard Emergency Response Act. The office has developed a new website specific to asbestos in schools. AHERA AHERA Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1986 (15 USC) , passed by Congress in 1986, protects school building occupants from asbestos exposure. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. , asbestos is still widely "managed in place" in school buildings across the country. Further details are available from Robert Courtnage of EPA's Fibers and Organics Branch, Mail Code 7404T, Washington, DC 20460 or at 202-566-1081. |
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