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EPA memo re: asbestos assessment and Superfund advantages, Jan 2002

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Memorandum comparing asbestos data in Manhattan to other sites and arguing for cleanup under the Superfund statute.

NYC-WTC_000140235–000140258

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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

TABLES - LIBBY ASBESTOS DATA

SETTLED ASBESTOS DUSTS, BUILDING INTERIORS PCM-equiva lent LIBBY structures per square centimeter (s/cm^) Fibers and Bundles (Structures) Longer than 5 micrometers (pm)

EPA Region 8 data.*® Mictovacuum sampling by American Society for Testing and Materials ASTM D- 5755 with analyses by TEM and counting rules specified in International Standards Organization ISO 10312.

33 out of 261 samples (13%) that had detectable asbestos 20 - 3658

228 out of 261 samples (87%) had non-detectable asbestos ND

RESIDENTIAL AND GARDEN SOILS weight percent (%) LIBBY (all asbestos included, not Includes all asbestos, not just fibers longer than 5 micrometers just PCM-equivabnt asbestos)

EPA Region 8 data?® Analysis by PLM. EPA found that forthose Libby samples with non-detectable analysis by PLM, many were found to actually have high levels when scanning electron microscope (SEM) methods were used.

yard soil, 13 of 258 (5%) samples had detectable asbestos 1 -5%

yard soil, 106 of 258 (41%) samples had a trace asbestos trace

yard soil, 139 of 258 (54%) had non-detectable asbestos ND

garden soil, 43 of 109 (39%) had detectable asbestos 1 -5%

garden soil, 59 of 109 (54%) had a trace asbestos trace

garden soil, 43 of 109 (39%) had non-detectable asbestos ND

driveway, 21 of263 (8%) had detectable asbestos 1 % driveway, 141 of 263 (54%) had a trace asbestos trace

driveway, 101 of 263 (38%) had non-detectable asbestos ND

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