a.  Yes, if a local fire department is using your building for fire training.  Any structure used for fire training is reclassified as a Government Building. 

b. Additionally, fire training also requires a Regulation 5 notification (Open Burn).

c. A Renovation notification will be required if there is >100 square or linear feet of RACM.  ALL asbestos containing material must be removed before the fire training.   

d. Fire Training cannot be the final means of demolition.  A separate demolition Notification must be submitted by a demolition contractor for final demolition.

The Air District does not have an Asbestos Exemption Notification process.

You may login to the Online Asbestos Notification System and click the “Edit Job Details” button from your Asbestos Notification Summary Page to revise the following information:

i. Contractor Company Information – please see Question #61.

ii. Contractor or Individual Contact Information

iii. Job Start and Completion Dates

iv. Waste Disposal Site

v. And for Planned Renovations, you can upload a revised Work Schedule Document

Once signed in to your account, click 'My Account' in the upper right-hand corner of the Customer Portal Home Page.  From there, you may edit your Contact Information or change your password.  Please watch our “Change Account Information” video.

You may call 1-800-334-ODOR (6367) or file a complaint online on our Complaints page.

You may enter through the login button on our Asbestos page.

Please contact Public Records.

The Division of Occupational Safety and Health maintains a list of State-Certified Asbestos Consultants and Site Surveillance Technicians.  Please visit their Search page for more information.

You will receive instructions from our Legal Division.

Select “Floor Mastic ONLY (with Mechanical Buffer)” in the Materials Description Section.

a. You may login to the Online Asbestos Notification System and click the “Edit Job Details” button from your Asbestos Notification Summary Page to revise your Start and Completion Dates. 

b. The Start Date cannot be revised after your Start Date has past. You have until 11:59 pm on your Start Date to revise the Start Date.  After that time, the system will no longer allow you to revise your Start Date.  [JC1] 

For notifications submitted through the Online Asbestos Notification System:

i. Contractors and homeowners of approved notifications will immediately receive an Asbestos Demolition/Renovation job number (J#) with an acknowledgement letter available to download and print.

ii. Notifications requiring District review will receive J#’s in the order they are received.

A J# is valid from 1-365 days.  A J# will expire after the Completion Date or the job exceeds 365 days.

A survey is not required to submit your Demolition Notification.  However, a survey report must be provided onsite.  Failure to do so may lead to a Notice of Violation.

No, our current system requires you to create an account in order to manage your notifications.  You may use computers at a public library, THE HUB (located on the 1^st floor of the Air District Office in San Francisco) or any location that offers public computer access.

After your project’s Start Date has past, you will no longer see a “Withdraw” button on your Asbestos Notification Summary Page.  To report a withdrawal after the Start Date, please call the Asbestos Help Desk.

After your project’s Completion Date has past, you will no longer see a “Change Job Details” button on your Asbestos Notification Summary Page.

It is at the discretion of the contractor to apply for two J#’s:

i. one J# for RACM

ii. one J# for Floor Mastic ONLY

We recommend that wait until you have hired an Asbestos Abatement Contractor and allow them to submit the notification so that they can manage the Start and Completion Dates of the project.

No.  In the new system, Asbestos Operation Fees will be charged based on the Total Removal Amount of regulated asbestos containing material (RACM).  Fees will no longer be calculated by using the greater quantity of square feet or linear feet of RACM to be removed.  The Asbestos Operation Fee will be calculated using the sum of all RACM in square feet and linear feet.

A survey is required regardless of the date of construction.

See "My home or residential building has multiple units.  What is my building type?"

Yes.

The system attempts to streamline your data entry by providing contact cards where possible.  Some users use the auto-complete setting in their web browser for this purpose.

Yes.