Fax cover sheet for WTC-related correspondence, July 7, 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document DEP LEGAL AFFAIRS Fax:17185956543 Jul 7 2003 9:13 P.15 Similar observations were reported in an October 6, 2001, report funded by the National Justitute of Environmental Health Sciences, which discussed worker safety issues at the WTC. The report noted that: Vehieles leaving zhe site with debris, either dumps or lowbogs with large seetions of steel beams, are not deconned (decontaminated) and the dumps do not have-covers over the loads. As a consequence, posentially hazärdous dust and debris ts sraeked off site or is biown from the loads during transie* (We recommend that this quoration be deleted as it is factually inaccurate and, that dump trucks starting on September 12 were for the most part covered and the siruation was not a hazardous material situation thus decontamination was not required. If this quote is not deleted we recommend that a footnote be added: However, certain requirements for transporting debris from the site were suspended by the Governor of New York on October 9, 2001. Executive Order No. 113.29 temporarily suspended regulations regarding the transportation and handling of certain solid waste resulting from the WTC disaster. The order applied to persons working at the site under the supervision of New York 'State or New York City govertment officials and suspended requirements for these peisons to: City officials state that starting on September 12:2001 there was a requirement that dumaptrucks be covered and. is requirement was enforced by City and State officials. Furshermore. Ithe term decontamination in the quotabs Lincorrect. Wetdown rather than decontamination was conducted. This was not a hazardous material sisuation and decontamination procedures were not required. NYC-WTC_000146065