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HfLI.MANN ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP,LL.0
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING & LAS SERVICES
October 2, 2001 1800 ROUTE 22 EAST
BOX 1587
UNION, NEW JERSEY 07083.1587
Mr. Thomas Welsh (908) 888.7600
CITIBANK FAX (eon) eme-8636
111 Well Street www,hrilmann,env,=m
23ie Floor/ Zone 2
Now York,NY 10043
RE: 111 Wall Street Indoor Air Quality levesdgatioO, September 21.2001
Dear Mr. Welsh:
Thank you for obtaining Elillaoatm Environtnetttal Group, LLC to address your envirotuaeotal concerns.
On September 21, 2001, an Indoor Air Quality Investigation was conducted on the 7`° and 21` floors of the
Citibank (acuity located at ill Wall Street, New York, NY. This survey was initiated in order to
determine if any adverse health effects may occur inside the subject space as a result of the roecrlt World
Trade Center collapse. The chosen parameters temperature, relative humidity, carbon dioxide, carbon
monoxide, volatile organic compounds. oxygen, hydrogen sulfide, and combustible gasses, Air samples
were talimi and analyzed for the presence of asbestos.
also
Observed indoor temperattnee ranged from 75'F to 76"F and observed relative humidities ranged from
62% to 65%, The American Society of Hearing, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engmcars (ASHRAE)
ds that the temperature
recur
within theneI
of660P to 76°F and that stay
range
relative
humidity
stay
to 60%.
30%
range
time
within
of
were
Temperatures
the
within range.
recommended
Relative
humidities
ended
reeomri
above the
were range.
levels were
However,
outdoor
and
equivalently
were
high
the
cause
probable
levels.
indoor
of
levels the
in
dioxide
Carbon
subject
space ranged
665 ppm to
from
742 ppm,
ASIdRAE
recoamnends
that
below the
dioxide levels remmain
carbon esrdoor
the
Since
700
ppm.
plus
reading
outdoor
reading
SSO
was
limit
the 1250
recommended
ppm.
is
ppm,
The
indoor
dioxide
carbon
levels
were
below the
recommended
limit.
Carbon monoxide levels were below the limit of detection of I ppm and therefore below the Environmental
(EPA)
Agency National
Protection
Ambient
Air
(NAAQS)
Quality Standard
9
ppm.
of
Volatile
were
organic compounds
to
found
be
the
below
limit
of
of
0.1
detection
ppm,
Hlihnann
these
that compounds
levels of
recomn=ds
below
remain
three
en
times
background
outdoor
reading.
the
Since below
was the
reading
outdoor
limit
of
0.1 ppm,
detection of
th e
recommended
be
level
would
0.3
below
to be
were
found
Levels
ppm the
limit.
recommended
oxygen
The
normal level of in air is
20.9%. If
oxygen
in a space
levels
at or
are
below
19.5%, the
is
space
defiant.
Levels of
oxygen
consider
oxygen in
space
subject
the
to
ranged
21.2%
21.3%
and
within the
recoaimanded levels.
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