Memorandum to DEP Commissioner, April 2003

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Director Michael Moran for appropriate action. To date, no response has been received. Our concerns go beyond the carpeting. It is our understanding that asbestos contaminated carpets cannot effectively be cleaned, but must be removed. Such removal is usually done as an "Asbestos Project", with appropriate safeguards for the removal workers as well as employees. A petition was circulated in February 2003 signed by ninety-three ECB employees expressing their concerns and the adverse affects of working in this building. Subsequently, we were led to believe that tests were conducted by building management_ Once again, no information from those tests has been shared with us. By a memo dated April 2, 2003, we were advised that the tenth floor carpeting was to be cleaned on three consecutive evenings, beginning that very night (see enclosed notice). We request that we be furnished inter alia with any and all information, test results, and documentation on uwhich.DEP, ECB and/or building management relied in its repeated representations that our concerns have been addressed. Kindly forward this information to the ECB Safety Committee, c% R. Potasznik, 10'h Floor, 66 John Street, New York, New York 10038.

We greatly appreciate any assistance you can render in addressing our concerns. We have contacted other individuals and entities with no success and would expect that you, as our Commissioner, can take the appropriate steps to not only assure us of the safety of our work place but to also provide us with the documentation to support those claims.

Very truly yours,

ECB Safety Committee

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