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Consolidated Forward Inc. Landfill Page 12 wear disposable clothing or change clothing before leaving the site. The potentially contaminated clothing will be cleaned or disposed as appropriate. To avoid cross -contamination from contaminated to non -contaminated sites, the applicant will provide a portable decontamination facility with self-contained water supply for personnel and equipment. For asbestos, a strict Asbestos -Containing Materials (ACM) handling program will be developed, and will include the following: (a) Bagged ACM will be dumped only onto the working face of the asbestos disposal area and not onto the flat compacted landfill surface. Bulldozers will then push soil cover onto the working face to cover the ACM bags and will not contact the bags. (b) For Forward site employees engaged in handling asbestos materials, Forward will implement one of the following: • a three day approved asbestos workers training program any asbestos training program specific to landfill employees that has been developed, described, or required by regulation by either the CIWMB or Cal - OSHA • any other asbestos training program approved by Cal -OSHA (c) Provision of water at the working face to keep ACM damp until covered. Continuation of the annual physical evaluations of all on-site Forward employees for asbestos exposure. Workers will not be allowed to eat near the active landfill. 32 Austin 1994 (UP, Austin 2000 (L2.f Working clothes should be left behind at the landfill and cleaned by the operator, Changing areas should be provided at the project site so that workers do not carry material off-site; and Dust accumulated on non -washable items should be removed by vacuuming, not brushing or blowing. 33 (E.2) Proposed as Part of the Project: The Forward Landfill "load -checking program," which is designed to mitigate against hazardous waste being placed in the landfill, will continue to be implemented for the consolidated landfill.