News article about recovery and commemoration, Sept 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Downtowners request more time for aid ^Tl^YIBURGER QAiu'NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON—People worried that their lower Man­ hattan homes are contaminated by dust from the destruc- tion of the twin towers pleaded with the feds yesterday for more time to apply for a cleanup program. “There is still a great deal of anxiety among residents re- garding the type of pollutants that entered the atmo­ sphere,” Madelyn Wils, chairwoman of Community Board 1, told a panel headed by Sen. Hillary Clinton

back the Oct 3 deadline - it has alnmdy been extended once—but said the city has not made a formal request. City Environmental Protection Commissioner Christo- pher Whrd would not say whether the Bloomberg adminis­ tration would make that request Ini a written statement he said the city would “continue I to work with the EPA to ensure full participation in the cleanup program.” . The F.PA*r ofBcft and rft«idential dust cb>aniip program Manhattan’s ^them;^. This month, officials m Brooklyn also faulted the EPA for not expanding its testing to neighborhoods right across the river from downtown. The agency created the program in May to help fund cleanup and testing of homes socked by the debris dust

outside of New York are mc»e focused on firefighters and rescue workers. “Because we’re more like bystanders or survivors, 1 don’t think we^e captured that same kind of respect,” she said. ‘ .

Wednesday, September 25,2002 DAILY NEWS

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