Unidentified environmental lab report excerpt, 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANTS, INC

June 3, 2003

Ms. Penny Theodorellys New York City Department of Environmental Protection 59-17 Junction Boulevard, 11th Floor Corona, NY 11368

Reference: Asbestos Project Monitoring/Air Monitoring and HAZMAT Consultant for 114 Liberty St.-Contract# WTC-LBA

Response to Rejection Due To Elevated TEM Costs

Dear Ms. Theoderellys:

JLC Environmental Consultants, Inc. (JLC) appreciates your continued consideration for the provision of specialized Asbestos and HAZMAT Services. We would like you to process a request for payment for additional work. The reason why JLC Environmental is looking to be compensated at an elevated rate for TEM Analysis is due to the fact that we were being charged one rate ($30.00) for our TEM analysis at the onset of this contract. When we sent the final clearance samples to the lab for analysis the laboratory we were utilizing (Sci- Lab) decided, after already prepping the samples and holding them for over 6 hours, that they would not analyze the samples unless we agreed to pay them $100.00 per sample (Attachment A). This price difference is reflected in the billing statements that are attached with this letter (Attachment B). In looking at these statements you will see that up until April 4, 2003 we were being charged $30.00 per sample for every AHERA Protocol TEM. On April 4, 2003 we were charged $100 per sample and a $25 per prep charge. In our billing you will see that we paid that elevated price on over 64 Samples. The statement date is not the analysis date. Once this change in price was implemented we immediately called the DEP an informed them of the dilemma. As a response to this reprehensible action we contacted ATC and requested, that their lab complete all additional sampling. In looking the statements sent by ATC (Attachment C) you would see that we had to pay $85 a sample for an additional 30 samples.

All of these costs were not taken into consideration when we originally bid on this contract. It was our understanding that we would only be paying $30.00 per sample for the duration of this contract, which was not the case

We felt that it would be in every ones best interest to sign this letter in order to get the expedited review that we needed for these samples. This is the reason

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