Regulated Building Materials
This naturally occurring, fibrous, “miracle mineral” has been used in more than 3,000 consumer and industrial products from automotive parts to building materials.
What is asbestos?
This type of initial environmental site assessment includes a site visit and desktop records review.
What is a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment?
The lowest level of personal protective equipment consisting of gloves, hard hat, safety glasses, and work boots.
What is Level D?
This federal government agency was formed in 1970 and works to ensure that Americans have clean air, land and water.
What is the United States Environmental Protection Agency?
A property where redevelopment may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.
What is a Brownfield?
If on a job site you see a clearly unsafe, life-threatening work condition, who is responsible for stopping work?
Who is YOU?
This asbestos related disease produces irreversible lung scarring caused by chronic exposure to asbestos fibers.
What is asbestosis?
A term used in a Phase I ESA report to call out a particular, potential environmental impairment on a property.
What is a Recognized Environmental Condition (REC)?
Created in 1970, this federal administration works to ensure safe and healthful working conditions by setting and enforcing workplace standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
This was the first major law to address water pollution.
What is the Clean Water Act?
The highest level of personal protective equipment which requires a completely encapsulated suit and self-contained breathing apparatus.
What is Level A?
This US President signed legislation that created the nation’s first federal brownfield law in 2002.
Who is George W. Bush?
This New York State Department of Labor regulation outlines the guidelines and requirements any time work disturbs asbestos-containing materials?
What is Industrial Code Rule 56?
A type of meter that detects total volatile organic compounds.
What is a photoionization detector (PID)?
Personal protective equipment that is worn over the mouth and nose to purify air and required for Level C personal protective equipment.
What is an air-purifying respirator (APR)?
This federal law established ambient air quality standards.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This industrial solvent, spilled during the CSXT train derailment in Rochester, is a DNALP liquid that had to be removed from sediments at the bottom of the Genesee River.
What is Methylene Chloride?
This author wrote Silent Spring, published in 1962, and helped trigger the environmental movement in the United States.
Who is Rachel Carson?
This product, banned by the EPA in 1978, is present in approximately 35% of homes in the United States and poses the highest health risk to children and pregnant women.
What is Lead-Based Paint?
This type of map provided detailed historical information about properties, including fuel tanks, in US cities and towns in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is a Sanborn Fire Insurance Map?
A sheet that lists product information relating to occupational safety and health.
What is a safety data sheet (SDS)?
This state agency works to conserve, improve and protect New York's natural resources.
What is the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC)?
The NYSDEC Region where Rochester is located.
What is Region 8?
The “father of brownfields”.
Who is Charlie Bartsch?
With the same name as a planet, this toxic heavy liquid metal was historically used in batteries, fluorescent lights, thermometers, and a wide variety of electrical switches.
What is Mercury?
This organization sets the standards on which Phase I and II ESAs are based upon.
What is the ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials)?
Inhalation, absorption, and ingestion.
What are routes of exposure?
This NYS program provides a certificate of completion and state income tax credits for brownfield cleanup and redevelopment costs.
What is the Brownfield Cleanup Program?
This type of map shows surface shapes, elevation contours, and features of land.
What is a topographic (Topo) map?
The “father of REJob”.
Who is Paul McFadden?