Congressional response to EPA cleanup responsibility, March 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document ■ SEP-13-O1 12=03 FROM: 1D = PACE 4Z4 . . 2}laiCK ......... STATEN iSL^WO. M, Y. 0. aJ.ili S'JN. 35.053 ? I

may 2 6 1970

Asbestos spraying rules fighfene&r rock wool insulaior^i^n harmless" • Public hearings oh the spray- amount to 531P,0M for the health.” He did not name the ing of a^os in^jcojBtruction Port Authority aild-M75.M0>r manufaemrer. sites and - its effects'bn the Alcoa AlumuKan. -wfeicB" hMds Ah Air Resources Depart­ health , . of__ tee , „surrppnding the. exterior. .wall contract. for ment spokesman said no .of- community wdi be held to-the World Trade Center. . ficial judgment on the effect^' ‘ moriw and Thursday in Man­ The Port Authority spok^ of CARGO on humari hattan. .'f man in, the letter claimed health had been made, biecaiiid Th® 4 art- for, the agency the role- of nio the manufacturer .“has not been lent -sai - jester^th™ ____ . — . ir.i ncer in.co ns -------- ‘ itS disclijsb' tryc‘jon zSioS techniques v „ Irving Selicoff, chief of the regarding abti-pollutibn meth- ;position.” Thr-ip'bSesmw environmental sciences labor- ods for asbestos spraying. added the _______ reluctance .was .ex atory of of•’Mt. Sinai Hospital 'He added the authority had plained by the fact that palmt long a pioneer in research on worked for several months with rights are still sought. the subject,, will be among the Air Resources Department ■“‘We approvedit approved'.it use i the experts to testify?- '• • - and the Mt. Sinai staff bn the some preliminary' eviluainbite The hearings will be held in CAFCO substance, _which he by Dr. SelikoH and the hearings -- --------- an reports engineering audi- rock wool oh Wednesday “ and Th.uijjday contains building torium of Cooper Union Col-rather than asbestos and, he will concentrate on air sprayed- Square, Mani added, the manufacturer of the on fibers, Wudiiig asbestos lege at 41 Cooper Square. hattan. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. product assures that the sill- and any mineral . wdoTj' wool; .indudj indud- / botli both days; ? : i cates present in it - “will ing tock wool.”7Jhe;spoke3^ On Apras 'Air Resources i not occasion a bt^irdjo. said. Tt Kckics was office in ordttr^'jfo^Sgn^ord^ putting a stj>';^'iPipeh-a^Ws / spraying at major constnirfipn / projects throughout the _city? ’ As a- result; those con^rniJes which sprayed bad to follow rules and regulations'set forth. b" his department and effective May 13. These ordered that J any spraying done be enclosed [• within tarpaulin . shelters toi' prevent the dispersal by wind ' or through the air of asbestos • materials. The silicates found' in asbestos may be breathed into the human lungs and, over a period of time coat them with ' miners’s. In several cases the Silicates embedded in the lungs of persons have been found to be canter-producing- ., A spokesman for..'the'World Trade Center yesterday made public a letter to Rickles in which .Austen J. Tobin of the center slated the fireproofing of the construction project would be completed with “a non­ asbestos fireproofing material called CAFCO. This too, .said. the letter, would be sprayed . within tarpaulin covers" ■“to\ minimize dispersal of that material into the circulating air.” The extra cost would;- ---------------- - -------- - -------- >j.

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