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El <br />1.0 introductionand Background <br />The Forward Landfill, owned and operated by Allied Waste Industries (Allied), occupies <br />approximately 567 acres in Manteca, California, and currently receives municipal solid waste <br />designated as non -hazardous solid waste. The facility accepts non -hazardous industrial waste, <br />including non friable asbestos, contaminated soil, municipal wastewater treatment sludge, <br />construction and demolition waste, and other industrial and special wastes. <br />The landfill operates under the Forward Landfill Solid Waste Facility Permit 39 -AA -0015 and its <br />associated requirements. This permit requires that asbestos emissions be monitored at the <br />landfill on a semiannual basis. This plan is designed to satisfy this semiannual monitoring <br />requirement. Asbestos air monitoring will be performed during the course of asbestos containing <br />waste handling operations at the landfill. The results from this project will provide data for <br />evaluation of asbestos emission levels. Meteorological data for wind speed, wind direction, <br />ambient temperature, and barometric pressure will be obtained from a meteorological (MET) <br />station set up at the site, or from the nearest MET station. <br />This Asbestos Air Monitoring Plan presents the asbestos air sampling and analytical procedures <br />that will be used by Shaw Environmental Inc., (Shaw) in supporting the Forward Landfill <br />(landfill) monitoring project for the year of 2009. <br />Project Responsibilities <br />Shaw's project organization is structured to include experienced professional and technical <br />specialists in the environmental disciplines. Shaw will be responsible for conducting the field <br />activities, sample collection and handling, data review, and meeting all reporting requirements <br />for the monitoring portion of the project. The monitoring objective is to sample for asbestos <br />ambient air levels at four representative site locations during an asbestos waste disposal <br />activity/operation that will occur during a particular week. Sampling will occur during normal <br />working hours. <br />The sampling locations will be within the landfill fenceline and close to the asbestos sample pile <br />A minimum of three samplers will be located in the predominant downwind locations with one <br />additional sampler co -located at one of the downwind locations. One sampler will be located on <br />the predominant upwind perimeter of the landfill. The sampling locations will be representative <br />of the worst-case condition on site for asbestos emissions from typical activities at the landfill. <br />i�rai� 1-1 <br />