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Asbestos Project Plan

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The Asbestos Project Plan (PDF) (17 pp, 95K) brings together all of EPA's recent actions relating to asbestos. It provides a framework for a coordinated Agency-wide approach to identify, evaluate and reduce risk to human health from asbestos exposure. EPA has identified three key areas where it will focus its asbestos research, program, and funding activities:

  1. Improving the state of the science for asbestos. This involves activities to advance EPA's understanding of asbestos toxicology, asbestos-related exposures, sample collection and analysis and applied science in the field.
  2. Identifying and addressing ways people are exposed to asbestos in products, schools and buildings, and potential ways to reduce exposure; and
  3. Assessing and reducing risks associated with areas that require asbestos cleanup.

Prior to developing the Asbestos Project Plan, EPA convened the Asbestos Strategies project. The purpose of the Asbestos Strategies project, commissioned by EPA, was to analyze potential solutions and options regarding the use and management of asbestos. EPA achieved the first major objective which was to offer recommendations and options on effective asbestos oversight, outreach and education approaches. EPA also achieved the second major objective which was to provide an opportunity for key stakeholders to share their knowledge on barriers, incentives, lessons learned, best practices, and viable technology applications as they relate to asbestos use and management.

Asbestos Strategies: Lessons Learned About Management and Use of Asbestos (PDF) (82 pp, 1.4MB) — Report of Findings and Recommendations on the Use and Management of Asbestos (prepared by the Global Environment and Technology Foundation (GETF), May 2003)

Summary of the ten recommendations (PDF) (4 pp, 236K)

 

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