NYC Law Department release
Independent mirror · updated as the City releases more · v1.2.6
← Document results/DEP Box 08/NO INFO
Document / 177 pages

Law Department notice on WTC document preservation, Oct 2001

Machine-extracted title · confidence 95%

Notice from NYC Law Department instructing staff to preserve World Trade Center documents for potential legal actions.

NYC-WTC_000145510–000145686

Folder label: “NO INFO

Page image
Scanned page image, NYC-WTC_000145684
OCR text

OCR status: ok · source: pdftotext

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

the report’s conclusions about the difference in respiratory use between the WTC and landfill sites.

24. We do not agree with characterizing respirator use at Ground Zero as “less than 100% compliance.” We agree that the paragraph should be revised to directly quote the cited letter and to eliminate the use of the term “decontamination.” The paragraph was revised to read as follows:

As the rescue phase progressed, EPA emergency response officials told us they were concerned about the lack of respirator use at Ground Zero and outlined these concerns in a letter to NYCDOH dated October 5,2001, This letter outlined the threat of potential exposure of workers to hazardous substances. The letter noted that EPA “.. has recommended, and continues to recommend, that workers utilize personal protective equipment and the personal wash stations to prevent the spread of asbestos and other hazardous substances from the WTC to their homes, cars, public transportation, food service locations, etc.” The letter stated that EPA had observed very inconsistent compliance with its recommendations, but did not have the authority to enforce compliance with non-EPA/United States Coast Guard employees. The letter concluded by recommending that the Incident Commander adopt and enforce a site-wide Health and Safety Plan. A copy of the letter is in Appendix P.

153 Report No. 2003-P-00012

NYC-WTC_000145684

OCR can misread numbers and units. Confirm readings against the page image before using them.

NYC-WTC_000145684Source: NYC Law Department, mirrored locally

Related records

Browse subjects →

Ranked by indexed similarity. Reasons describe shared subjects and filing context; check the source records.

Same-box records

Filed elsewhere

More like this page

Similar subjects in other documents. Similarity does not establish the same event, measurement or conclusion.

Page similarity is temporarily unavailable or this page has no indexed vector.

Buildings in this record

Machine-extracted building matches; verify each source. Buildings, never households.

Others also read

Readers open these alongside this record — through an Ask answer, the same folder, or indexed similarity. Not a claim they are about the same event.

Compare copies and versions →