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Monday, March 18,2002
Return Of WTC Cars
Hits EPA Roadblock
ByGREGGITTRICH
Daily News Staff Writer eutemob
e oncems about asbestos-tainted dust have sh ImThT3d the
brakes on the city's plan to return hundreds of cars
towed fi-om streets around the World Trade Center to
their owners.
The city planned to start giving back the
dust-covered vehicles today. But a Daily
News report about the dangerous coating
of asbestos on the cars prompted federal
environmental officials to step in.
"No cars will be released [today]," Kathy
Dawkins, a spokeswoman for the city
Sanitation Department, said yesterday.
Instead, Environmental Protection Agency
and city officials will meet this week to Daring Ground
discuss what to do with the cars, parked at Zero cleanup last
Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island. month, a car is
hoisted from the
B2 level of the
"We are going to review all the underground
procedures," Dawkins said. garage at 6 World
Trade Center.
,, In a March 8 article. The News revealed that tests on the
vehicles show that as much as 3% of the dust is asbestos, more
than three times the level that triggers federal cleanup rulesT^
Many of the cars have little body damage — and nothing
would stop scheming owners from rinsing them off and selling
them to unwitting buyers.
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