Memo on retention of WTC clean-up records, September 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

NEW YORK ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & JUSTICE PROJECT member of the Clean Water Networle member of the NationalLaw9ere Guild

315 Broadway, suite 200 Joel R. Kupfferman, Esq.; Executive Director New York, NY 10007-1121 Tel : 212-766-9910 Fax: 212-202-6388 http://www.nyenvirolaw.org

Concerns - Determination of the presence of asbestos and other hazardous materials should be conducted through sample collection and laboratory testing. - Cursory visual inspections are inadequate to detect contamination. - Testing and abatement should extend north of the current arbitrary Canal Street boundary and across the rivers into Brooklyn and New Jersey. - Preliminary testing should follow a systematic grid in which all neighborhoods are tested. - Upon determination that contamination has been found in a geographic area, a good faith effort must be made to notify area residents of the contamination and cleanup options. - EPA oversight of DEP contracting. - EPA oversight of subcontractor cleanup. - Cleanup must be mandatory for all private apartments and not just upon request. - Cleanup must include building common areas such as air duct systems - If mandatory cleanup for all private apartments is not possible, testing and full abatement should be available to all residents upon request.

Documents 1) EPA Cleanup Recommendations - Joel R Kupferman, Esq., Executive Director of the New York Environmental Law & Justice Project, Kimberly Flynn, Policy Analyst, Dan Halper, Legal Intern 2)150 Franklin Street Testing Results -EMSL Analytical, Inc 3) "NY Air Hazards Found" -The Sacramento Bee February 12, 2002 www.sacbee.com/content/news/medical /story/1622756p-1698856c.html 4) "Trade Center Air Held Unprecedented Amounts of Very Fine Particles, Silcon, Sulfates, Metals" -Press Release University of California, Davis (2-12-02) 4) "Mercury Contamination in the Home"

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