NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
MILLENNIUM HILTON HOTEL
ASBESTOS INSPECTION AND SAMPLING
1.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CONFIDENTIAL
An inspection of the site was performed on September 20 and 28 to 30, 2001 by Boris Feldman, Tej
Chhetry, Mikhail Sokolinskiy and Oleg Koledenkov of Testwell Laboratories, Inc. (TL). All TL
personal is licensed by the New York State Department of Labor (NYS DOL) and New York City
Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) to perform work with asbestos containing
materials. Credentials of TL personal are attached in Appendix C of this report.
The TL inspection was performed to evaluate the asbestos contamination of the Millennium Hilton
Hotel building interior after the events related to the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The
area of inspection included the guest rooms, office spaces, meeting rooms, mechanical areas and
staircases on all 56 building floors.
The indoor air quality air test for asbestos was performed on the all building floors with the exception
of the mechanical floors 56 and 6 using aggressive sampling techniques to re-entrain settled dust and
simulate activity in that area of the building. All air samples were analyzed via Transmission Electron
Microscopy (TEM) method. Bulk sampling of the accumulated dust and debris was performed on the
all building floors. All dust/debris samples were analyzed using Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM)
method.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) definition of Asbestos-Containing material
(ACM) is: "Any material, which contain asbestos more than 1% by weight". The US EPA post
abatement clearance criteria are 70 structures/mm2 by TEM.
The laboratory analysis confirmed presence of asbestos in the dust/debris more than 1% in the
following areas:
LOCATION % ASBESTOS SPACE CONDITION
55th Fl. Elevator lobby 10.25% No damage
54a' Fl. Rm. 5408 4.16% No damage
25" Fl. Rm. 2509 1.27% Window was open
20`h Fl. Rm. 2107 2.07% Window was open
19" Fl. Rm.1906 2.14% Window was open
14" Fl. Rm. 1409 1.3% No damage
1211' Fl. Rm. 1202 7.41% Broken glass
8`h Fl. Rm. 801 - 5.06% No damage
56`h Fl. Mechanical Rm. 1.08% No damage
Complete bulk sample laboratory analysis data sheets are attached in Appendix A of this report.
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