NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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EPA Indoor Air Working Group Meeting
3/20/02
1. Update on EPA's Task Force Meeting on 3/11/02
- provided update to members on workgroup activities
- discussed EPA's proposal to FEMA
- discussed interaction of EPA and NYC task forces
- Will stay separate for near term
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2. Update on NYC's Lower Manhattan Air Quality Task Force
- definition of areas of responsibility of 2 task forces
- EPA's group requested to focus activity on:
- identifying chemicals of concern and providing rationale for why
some chemicals excluded
- identifying benchmarks and screening criteria
- characterizing risk and recommending approaches to deal with
risk scenarios such as cleaning, sampling and testing
- discussion of NYC's efforts to develop a proposal to FEMA
3. Update on Activities of Chemicals of Concern/Benchmarks Sub-Group
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- discussion of folding Sub-Group activities into Working Group Sompliing
- development of timeline for completion
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Introduction to a cross-agency group tasked with identifying contaminants of concern and establishing health-based screening levels for the indoor environment.