NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
Gilsenan, Michael
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Subject: Hope this message works!
Last time I tried to send to the group, I crashed (on Saturday). I just
now got back on! Here's the release going out now on the hotline. It
is up and running, so we're all systems go. Lots of press interest, as
you might expect.
Contact: Mary Mears 212-637-3669
EPA LAUNCHES LOWER MANHATTAN CLEANING HOTLINE
FOR RELEASE: Monday, June 3, 2002
(#02053) New York, New York ? Starting today, lower Manhattan residents
can request cleaning and/or testing of their homes from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by logging on to the Agency's
World Trade Center Web page at www.epa.gov/wtc or by calling the EPA
hotline at 1-877-796-5471. The launch of the hotline and Web site marks
the startup of the comprehensive multi-agency program that was
announced in May to ensure that apartments impacted by the collapse of
the World Trade Center have been properly cleaned. EPA and its federal,
state and city partners are collaborating in this unprecedented effort
to provide assurances that people are not being exposed to pollutants
related to the World Trade Center collapse at levels that might pose
long term health risks.
The cleaning and testing services will be available to lower Manhattan
residents who live south of Canal, Allen and Pike Streets. The hotline
will be staffed to take cleaning and testing requests between 10 a.m.
and 8 p.m., Monday through Friday and between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on
Saturday and Sunday for about three months starting June 3rd .
When residents call to register for either cleaning or testing, they
will be asked basic questions including how many rooms in their home,
how dusty it was following 9/11, how it was cleaned, and if tests were
done. Once registered, residents will be given a confirmation number
and a privacy code. They can use this number and code to track - on
either the Web or through the hotline ? the status of their cleanup
and/or testing and to check test results once the cleanup and testing
are completed. EPA will make every effort coordinate cleanup requests
if they come from the same building and the Agency encourages tenant
associations to work to coordinate residents' requests.
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