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asbestos cover-up’ By SAM SMITH & The date of Sex An Environmental Pro­ tection Agency memo Air scare 2002, was mistaked on a plaque attach* claims dty and federal offi­ cials omcealed data that Air test results taken around Ground fence at Ground Z* diowed lower Manhattan Zero shortly after the WTC attack. Sate ficials admitted y air w^ clouded levels of asbestos are below 70 day. * structures per square centimeter. The incorrect d« tos afta the World Trade mained on one of f m ; Center collapse. 9/12/01 morial plaques for And sat on the Centre St and 123.73 ^o years as coi alarming infnrmatinn even Chambers St_____ _ stradioes thousands visitcx as they told die public it Spruce St and Gold St 157.48 9AV01 attack siti was safe to return down­ town, the internal memo says. 9/13/01 Munay St and (aiurch St ovciloatlcd* ^ly.saw Mil it was until Testihg ly the dty De­ maW Fulton St and Church St oveiloaded partment of Environmemal 9/15/01 Protectum showed the air Uberty st and Broadway (wertoaded e-mail to the Port Author- downtown had more than double die level of asbestos Cedar st and Broadway ovcricKidcd ^^e PA acted inunedi- considered safe for humans, 9/16/01 claimed federal ^A oivir , Washington St and , “As soon as we were TCUUQClltsl lyctgntigt ' -CfltC Park Place ; 18236 told about fc we took the Jenkins, who supplied the Fulton St between Church St sign down,” said PA memo to Ihe Post and Broadway overloaded spokesmm Stwe Cole­ The data, which Jenkins man. “» is in the process says she culled from state *OwrtoadBd means tonbone so h^i taste ofbeingreplaced.” records, qmear damning. could not detennine exset amounts. On the day after dm at- Todd Venezia ta(±, the memo daims, dty test results frtnn die corner loaded” with asbestos in the Web site in Fdmiary 2002, Post “But the EPA can’t ministrator Christie Whit- of Centre and Chambss dr — so much that dm lab there were 17 instances wi^e out of tids. They! man said the public ir Greets and from die comer could not. cmudude predse where^^ data was dther sakTfoe air was safe at the lower Manhattan was not of Spruce and Gold streets amounts — along Church understated or left blank, same tone they were coor- ; behm emosed to “excessive showed asbestos concentra- .Street Jenkins asserts in her re- dinating data with the dty.” S ofa^os.” tum at about twice the level To drive her point home, / That same day, dty t^- amsidaed safe by the EPA. w^ Again, the information /-tw. Jenkins compares state-/ ing data, some of whi^ was withheld, the memo wiggle oirt rfthfSaiS The dty did not release mentsmadebytheEPAda later made public, IT ' this information to die pub­ claims. concealment because they tte s^ test data wm ^^os levels, 50 lic, Jenkins says. When die dty published The next day, Sept 13, the test results for the dty tests were “over­ wedcs foUowfaig 9/U on its weren’t making any explidt statements about data at the time,” Jenkins told The showing dangerous levds hUher and more i of adiestos. what her agency com___ a (hl Sept 18, then-EPA ad- safe, the feono elates.^ - "-

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