2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 30:2345 — Louisiana school asbestos abatement commission

§2345.  Louisiana School Asbestos Abatement Commission

A.  The Louisiana School Asbestos Abatement Commission is hereby created and shall consist of twelve members, one representative to be selected by each of the following:

 (1)  Attorney General.  

 (2)  Department of Education.  

 (3)  Division of Administration.  

 (4)  Board of Regents.  

 (5)  Louisiana School Boards Association.  

 (6)  Safe Building Alliance.  

 (7)  Louisiana Association of Educators.  

 (8)  Louisiana AFL-CIO.  

 (9)  Association of School Superintendents.  

(10)  Louisiana Catholic Conference.  

(11)  A parish school board selected by the Louisiana School Board Association.  

(12)  The secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality.  

B.  The commission shall recommend rules and regulations concerning asbestos abatement to the Department of Environmental Quality.  The department shall promulgate school asbestos abatement rules and regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.  

C.  The secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality shall call the commission into session within thirty days after the effective date of this Chapter.  The commission shall elect its officers from among its membership.  

D.  If, by January 1, 1986, the commission has not recommended asbestos abatement rules and regulations, then the secretary shall promulgate such rules no later than March 1, 1986.  The commission shall dissolve no later than January 1, 1986.  

E.  The building owner shall select the method of abatement to be used from those set forth in the definition of abatement contained in Section 2342 or from such other methods as may be approved by the regulations adopted pursuant hereto, provided that any method selected must be used in the manner that regulations adopted pursuant hereto may require.  

F.  No school, which has commenced abatement work at a particular site prior to the effective date of regulations or standards adopted or imposed hereunder, shall be required by this Chapter, or by regulations or standards adopted or imposed hereunder, to conduct a different type of abatement at the same site unless levels of airborne asbestos fibers at that site exceed an abatement action level established by the regulations adopted pursuant to this Chapter which are applicable to all school buildings.  

Acts 1985, No. 394, §1, eff. July 10, 1985.