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Already facing the challenge of finding $12,000 in this year’s school budget to finish the high school expansion project, Su- t perintendent David Gangel has yet another financial scavenging hunt before him, this time for $10,000 to have the county’s two public schools inspected for asbestos.
It is no ordinary inspection. Ordered under the Asbestos Razard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) recently signed into law by President Reagan, the inspection must be conducted by an inspector licensed by the Environmental Protection Agency. ’The first class of graduates just finished the first EPA.sphool,” Dr. Gangel told the School Board last week, suggesting that the job of inspecting Rappahannock’s schools be put out for bid immediately. “There’s no money budgeted for this, but there are only so many people who can do the work,” .he said, adding that the State Department of Education has advised “if we wait ; past January, we won’t be able to find anybody at any price.”
There appears' tcj be an economy of scale for the inspections, with cost estimates ranging from three cents per square foot for large:school divisions to 20 cents per square foot for smaller divisions. “I cranked in seven bents and that may be optimistic,” Dr. Gahgfel said, holding out the possibility that Rappahannock may be able to join with neighboring school divisions in hiring an inspector. At seven cents a square foojt, the cost for the two schools is approximately $10,000.
The inspertion is only the first AHERA requirement. “Then a different person licensed by EPA must write a management plan' (setting out what Rap-1
!A is cdhtplete removal of ALL aa,
something which niay prove'to be very expensive, according to the superintendent. He explained that unlike previous asbestos programs, AHERA does not differentiate between friable (easily crushed or crumbled into powder) and non-friable asbestos. “These probably contain (non-friable) asbestos,” Dr. Gangel said, painting to the tiles on the library floor.
Under the plans resulting from previous inspections, schools would have been directed officially to monitor the tiles in the elementary library to make sure that the non-friable asbestos isn’t turning
(See ASBESTOS, p. 18)
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