Charter Schools Fined for Asbestos Violations

Charter Schools Fined for Asbestos Violations


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Charter Schools Fined for Asbestos Violations

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Five Phoenix top schools accept been answerable with asbestos violations, as the Environmental Protection Agency moves to added carefully accomplish regulations on accessible allotment schools.

“Arizona has added than 500 allotment schools and abounding authority classes in earlier buildings, which tend to accept move asbestos,” said asbestos coordinator for the EPA’s Southwest Region, Ron Tsuchiya. “Of the allotment schools that we’ve done atom checks on, none were in compliance.”

These 5 schools bootless to audit for asbestos, or bootless to accept acceptable asbestos administration affairs as is appropriate by the federal Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act of 1987, according to the EPA.

Each academy was fined $11,700, but was accustomed to abstract the costs of authoritative the all-important moves to accede with regulations, said EPA officials.

Most accessible academy districts accept been in acquiescence with federal asbestos regulations for a continued time, and advance competent administration plans, but allotment schools are generally not as regulation-savvy, Tsuchiya said.

Which is why the EPA has focused its efforts on Arizona allotment schools, and will acceptable aggrandize them to allotment schools in California and added states, Tsuchiya said.

“In our case, we charter our architecture and were told it was in abounding compliance,” said Mark Francis, controlling administrator of the Arizona Academy for the Arts, one of the schools that were fined. “But already we abstruse we weren’t, we did what we bare to do to actual it and spent about $16,000 to fix the problem.”

Asbestos is a by itself occurring mineral that is blaze resistant, and was broadly acclimated for fireproofing and insulation afore its dangers were discovered. It has back been affiliated with abounding bloom problems, and is the alone absolute could cause of mesothelioma, a blazon of lung cancer.

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Charter Schools Fined for Asbestos Violations