Site identification record, 74-90 Church Street, Oct 2001

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November 12, 2001 EMTEQUE Mr. Shaun Hession New York City Housing Authority 23-02 49th Avenue Long Island City, New York 11101 and Evaluation Re.: 90 Church Street, Environmental Dust and Debris Sampling Interim Site Assessment Report EMTEQUE Project Number 010496

Dear Mr. Hession, (EMTEQUE) proposal As per the discussions, meetings and EMTEQUE Corporation the proposed dated October 5, 2001 (revised October 7, 2001), EMTEQUE conducted 13, 2001. Sampling sampling of the above referenced property on Saturday, October York City the New was conducted within the 5th through 12th floors, areas occupied by conducted by was Housing Authority (NYCHA) until September 11, 2001. The samplingFeldscher. Messrs. Eric Telemaque, Ramon Henriquez, Juan Salcedo and Neil Property Representatives of NYCHA's Employee Health and Safety Office and Management Unit accompanied and observed all sampling. The Ambient Group, Inc., accompanied the • representing Boston Properties, the property management firm, floor only) of the sampling. Personnel sampling team during the initial portion (i.e., 12th quantity and method to from the Ambient Group, Inc. reportedly took samples similar in the asbestos portion of the Ambient the EMTEQUE sampling. EMTEQUE only observed Group, Inc.'s sampling. large quantities of Due to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) tragedy, building through dust and debris associated with the WTC complex entered the subject collapse and open windows and through windows that were broken during the fire on the 9th subsequent fires. Fires occurred on the 5th, 6th, 81 and 9th (small localized within the southwest floor) floors of the subject building. The fires were generally located of contaminants corner of the subject property. Based upon the EPA's on-going study sampling was conducted for along with EMTEQUE's information from other local sites, the following contaminants:

• Asbestos • Metals • Silica • Polychlorinated biphenyls • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons • Dioxin contaminant present While this list is not intended to be all inclusive of every possible as

indicators of the current • a result of the WTC disaster, it is intended to provide good issues as related to condition of the subject building and the potential industrial hygiene the New York State that condition. EMTEQUE compared results of the sampling to

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