Press release on EPA WTC dust cleanup contracts, Sept 2002

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Dust Cleanup Request Form Contracts for EPA's Downtown Residential Request Counts Dust Cleanup Program Are Awarded Follow Up Map FOR RELEASE: Monday, September 16, 2002 Fact Sheets / Scopes

Frequently Asked (#02096) New York, N.Y. Questions - Eight contracts have been awarded for the - "CAHiM. ST %1OOO2K Ads & Flyers downtown World Trade '-a D EPA Press Center residential dust Releases cleanup program by the New York City Department Pictures of Environmental MX #■' 10038 J ' Protection (NYCDEP). The The EPA Experience cleanup program will be ' 10007 y I |"7 Momionng Summaries managed by EPA. Two contractors, one project monitoring contractor and New York City one cleanup contractor, Area 1 will work in each of four 10006 5^ Pentagon quadrants of the eligible Monitoring Data cleanup area - south of \D B i " Asbestos in Canal, Pike and Allen 10004 Air Streets, river to river. < Asbestos in These quadrants were Bulk Dust drawn to allow each Benzene in Air contractor to handle an Map of Cleanup Quadrants Chromium in equivalent number of Air requests. The monitoring contractors will schedule cleanups and testing, do a pre­ Dioxin in Air cleanup walk-through to gather information and answer questions, monitor the work of Drinking Water the cleanup contractor and conduct all sampling. This sampling includes post-cleanup air Lead in Air sampling, air sampling in homes at which only testing was requested and wipe samples Metals in Air taken in a subset of homes. Particulate Matter 2.5 As of today, nearly 4,400 residents of lower Manhattan have signed up to have their Particulate homes tested, or cleaned and tested, under EPA's Residential Dust Cleanup Assistance Matter 10 Program. About 3450 are asking for cleaning and testing and 970 for testing only. In PCBs in Air May, EPA and its federal, state and city partners announced a comprehensive plan to Polycyclic ensure that apartments impacted by the collapse of the World Trade Center have been Aromatic properly cleaned. The plan was developed in consultation with the multi-agency Task Hydrocarbons Force on Indoor Air in Lower Manhattan created by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. VOCs; Volatile A hotline to register residents for the cleanup program was launched in June. EPA has Organic already begun testing homes for asbestos in air, and cleanups will begin this week. Compounds

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http://www.epa.gov/wtc/stories/091602.htm 9/24/2002

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