HVAC cleanup proposal for residential units, Feb 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

D.C. Robert Avaltroni TEL:718-595-4544 May 08 02 8:51 No.001 P.02

federal, Good afternoon. I am pleased to be here today with the EI'A and our program to allay stare and city partners to announce the launch of a comprehensive possible asbestos the fears of Lower Manhattan residents concerned about Center. contamination in their homes caused by the collapse of the World Trade and none of them There arc.approximately 31,000 people living south of Canal Street, gratified that PLM A, should have to live with concerns of the air they breaths:. We arc allow residential through EPA and DEI', are providing emergency funding to date has found dwellings to he cleaned and tested for asbestos. While our work to Ground Zero, w arc: minimal instances of asbestos in the buildings surrounding reassure residents of confident that the measures announced today will help further

Lower Manhattan of the safety of their living environment.. City initiated Immediately following the collapse of the Twin Towers, the: with EPA. Since. cleanup activities of streets, sidewalks, and exterior common areas around Ground September 11'x', we have established an air monitoring network in and Since January, DEP Zero to evaluate the ambient air quality on a continuing basis. exteriors.. 1'o date, inspectors have been conducting an assessment of building debris from the approximately 800 buildings have been inspected to identify potential have found exterior World Trade Center collapse on rooftops and facades. Where we amounts, and causes no debris, it has formed into dense, cake-like deposits and in small is cleaned up, and to significant risk to residents, workers or visitors. To ensure that it the City, with the ensure that residual debris poses zero risk to human health,

assistance of EPA, is in the process of cleaning up this material itself.

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