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INDEPENDENCE PLAZA TENANT ASSOCI . N
Diane S. Lapson'
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July 18, 2002
Memo to: Mary Mears, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
From: Diane S. Lapson, Chair IPNTA Environmental Committee:
Subject: Post-9111 Cleanup of Independence Plaza North (IPN)
Copies to:
U.S. EPA Region II: Jane Kenny, Region II Administrator;
Kathleen Callahan, Deputy Administrator;
Bonnie Bellows, Spokeperson Region II, Director Comm.
Erin M. Crotty, Commissioner NYS DEC
Christopher O. Ward, Commisioner, NYC DEP V
Gov. George Pataki
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Congressman Jerrold Nadler
Senator Charles Schumer; Senator Hillary Clinton
N.Y. State Senator Martin Connors; N.Y. State Senator Tom Duane
N.Y. State Assembly Member Deborah Glick;
City Councilmember Allan Gerson
Acting Regional Director FEMA,Joseph F. Picciano, (Reg.11)
Deborah Dolan, Manager, Independence Plaza North
Sudhir Jain, President, World Trade Center Residents Coalition
IPN Tenant Association Executive Board
outlining
Thank you for getting back to me via telephone. This is a follow up memo
comments from the
my understanding of our conversation and including additional
a copy
Independence Plaza North Tenant Association (IPNTA). I have also included
of our original letter to you for reference.
IPNTA
Rather than have a phone conversation about the following points, the
Environmental Committee would like to meet with you and EPA representatives
also
authorized to make decisions about these issues. By copy of this letter, we are
meeting. We believe it would be
asking IPN manager Deborah Dolan to attend this
on a Monday
most convenient for everyone if the meeting were held at 9:30 AM
at IPN, where you and your staff can
through Thursday, and that it would be best held
if Ms. Dolan
see the layout of Independence Plaza. We would very much appreciate
would allow us to use the management office for this meeting.
asbestos
In reference to the 6th paragraph of our original letter regarding the
Street: You
reading of 28.74S/mm2 in at least one hallway at 310 Greenwich
areas" during the
explained that the hallways will be cleaned as part of the "common
board, we must
"whole building" cleanup. After further discussing this issue with our
begun replacing
raise an additional, urgent concern. The managing agent of IPN has
began after 9/11.
old (pre 9/11) carpeting in the hallways of the complex. This work
has been replaced
To date, the carpeting near the elevators in all the tower buildings
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