310 GREENWICH STREET Block: 142 Lot: 25 BIN: 1083239 40 Harrison Street/Independence Plaza

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document F'

INDEPENDENCE PLAZA TENANT ASSOCIATION ) Diane S- - son' ~JEP" 40 Harrison Street. -_A 2t-L .PII ' Jew York, NY 10013 OFFIf E OF HE~ OONp11SStOtJER IVED (212) 473-5900 (W) I._._._._._.-PII (H) (212)777-0337 (Fax) [email protected] 2601 AUG _ 2 A 2. 10 July 18, 2002

Memo to: Mary Mears, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency From: Diane S. Lapson, Chair IPNTA Environmental Committee: Subject: Post-9/11 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 0. Ward, Commisioner, NYC DEP V/ Gov. George Pataki Mayor Michael Bloomberg Congressman Jerrold Nadler Senator Charles Schumer; Senator Hillary Clinton Duane N.Y. State Senator Martin Connors; N.Y. State Senator Tom N.Y. State Assembly Member Deborah Glick; City Councilmember Allan Gerson Acting Regional Director FEMA,Joseph F. Picciano, (Reg.Il) Deborah Dolan, Manager, Independence Plaza North Sudhir Jain, President, World Trade Center Residents Coalition IPN Tenant Association Executive Board

memo outlining Thank you for getting back to me via telephone. This is a follow up from the additional comments my understanding of our conversation and including included a copy Independence Plaza North Tenant Association (IPNTA). I have also of our original letter to you for reference. the IPNTA Rather than have a phone conversation about the following points, representatives Environmental Committee would like to meet with you and EPA letter, we are also authorized to make decisions about these issues. By copy of this believe it would be asking IPN manager Deborah Dolan to attend this meeting. We at 9:30 AM on a Monday most convenient for everyone if the meeting were held your staff can through Thursday, and that it would be best held at IPN, where you and appreciate if Ms. Dolan see the layout of Independence Plaza. We would very much would allow us to use the management office for this meeting. the asbestos In reference to the 6th paragraph of our original letter regarding Greenwich Street: You reading of 28.74S/mm2 in at least one hallway at 310 areas" during the explained that the hallways will be cleaned as part of the "common with our board, we must "whole building" cleanup. After further discussing this issue of IPN has begun replacing raise an additional, urgent concern. The managing agent This work began after 9/11. old (pre 9/11) carpeting in the hallways of the complex. tower buildings has been replaced To date, the carpeting near the elevators in all the

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