N.J. Admin. Code § 8:50-1.3
"Adjacent business" means a business that is co-located next to a child care center or educational facility.
"AIHA" means the American Industrial Hygiene Association, for which the contact information is AIHA, 2700 Prosperity Ave., Suite 250, Fairfax, VA 22031-4340, (703) 849-8888, telefacsimile (703) 207-3561, www.aiha.org.
1. A searchable list of laboratories accredited by the AIHA is available at http://www.aiha.org/Content/LQAP/accred/AccreditedLabs.htm.
1. For non-cancer health effects, AT is expressed as 24 hours per day per year multiplied by 365 (days per year).
2. For cancer health effects, AT is expressed as a lifetime estimate of 70 years.
"Body weight" or "BW" means the weight of a human being in kilograms (kg).
"Cancer slope factor" or "CPSi" means the slope of a dose-response curve obtained from animal and/or human cancer studies expressed as the inverse of the daily dose for the inhalation exposure pathway.
"Child care center" means a facility required to obtain licensure pursuant to the Child Care Center Licensing Act, P.L. 1983, c. 492, 30:5B-1 et seq.
"Co-located" means any building sited and joined by a contiguous roof.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Health and Senior Services or his or her designee.
"Concentration" means the amount of a substance present in a certain amount of soil, water, air, food, blood, hair, urine, breath or any other media.
"Contaminant" means a substance that is either present in an environment where it does not belong or is present at levels that might cause harmful, that is, adverse, health effects.
"Conversion" means the performance of work for the purpose of, and/or that would result in, the reclassification of a building from one use group to another.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services.
"Dose-response curve" means a graphical relationship between a dose, that is, an amount of exposure to a substance, and a response, that is, a resulting change in body function or health.
"Dust exposure factor" means the frequency, duration and time of exposure to contaminated dust.
"Educational facility" means a "public school" and a "private school" as 18A:1-1 defines those terms and a charter school pursuant to 18A:36A-1 et seq. and the rules promulgated thereunder at N.J.A.C. 6A:11, particularly 6A:11-1.2.
"Exposure duration" or "ED" means the length of time in years during which a person is exposed to a potentially hazardous substance.
"Exposure frequency" or "EF" means the average amount of time per year during which a person is exposed to a potentially hazardous substance, usually expressed in hours per day.
"Exposure time" or "ET" means the amount of time, expressed in hours per day, during which a person is exposed to a potentially hazardous substance.
"Facility" means a building at which a child care center or an educational facility is located.
"Field Sampling Procedures Manual" means the Field Sampling Procedures Manual issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (August 2005), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, available at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/srp/guidance/fspm.
"Indoor environmental consultant" means a business entity licensed by the Department to conduct an indoor environmental health assessment in child care centers or educational facilities.
"Indoor environmental health assessment" or "IEHA" means an evaluation and assessment of indoor environment conducted by a licensed indoor environmental consultant.
"Intake rate" or "IR" means the amount of a contaminated medium, such as air, water or soil, to which a person is exposed during a specified period, usually expressed in cubic meters per day, that is, m[LESS THAN]3[GREATER THAN]/day.
"Lifetime excess cancer risk" or "LECR" means the product of the calculated daily exposure dose and the cancer slope factor.
"Maximum contaminant level" or "MCL" means a site-specific maximum contaminant level the Department determines pursuant to 8:50-4.1.
"Method" means one of the methods below contained in the Compendium of Methods for the Determination of Toxic Organic Compounds in Ambient Air - Second Edition (EPA/625/R-96/010b) (January 1999), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by the Center for Environmental Research Information (CERI), National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/files/ambient/airtox/tocomp99.pdf, and from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, (703) 487-4650, telefacsimile (703) 321-8547, Info@ntis.fedworld.gov, http://www.ntis.gov.
1. "Method TO-15" means Compendium Method TO-15 Determination Of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) In Air Collected In Specially-Prepared Canisters And Analyzed By Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), (January 1999), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by the CERI, available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/files/ambient/airtox/to-15r.pdf, and from the NTIS.
2. "Method TO-17" means Compendium Method TO-17 Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Ambient Air Using Active Sampling Onto Sorbent Tubes (January 1999), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by the CERI, available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/amtic/files/ambient/airtox/to-17r.pdf, and from the NTIS.
"NVLAP" means the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for which the contact information is National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program, Standards Services Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2140, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2140, (301) 975-4016, telefacsimile (301) 926-2884, http://ts.nist.gov/standards/accreditation/index.cfm.
1. A searchable list of laboratories accredited by the NVLAP is available at http://ts.nist.gov/Standards/scopes/programs.htm.
"Proximate business" means a building or an improved or unimproved lot, as to which it is reasonably foreseeable that conditions and/or past or present operations thereat could have an effect on the indoor environment of a child care center or an educational facility.
"Radius search" means a search for sites that are of environmental concern within a 400-foot radius around the location of a child care center.
"Reference dose" or "RfD" means an estimate of daily human exposure to a potentially hazardous substance that is not likely to cause adverse human health effects, expressed in milligrams of a substance per kilogram of body weight per day, that is, mg/kg/day.
"Target hazard quotient" or "THQ" means a comparison of a dose to a reference dose, expressed as a ratio of the dose to the reference dose.
"Vapor Intrusion Guidance" means the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Vapor Intrusion Guidance (October 2005), incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, available at http://www.state.nj.us/dep/srp/guidance/vaporintrusion/vig.htm and by contacting the Site Remediation Program, NJ Department of Environmental Protection, 401 E. State Street, 6th Floor, East Wing, PO Box 028, Trenton, NJ 08625-0028, (609) 292-1250, telefacsimile (609) 777-1914.
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