NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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Sent: Wednesday. October 02 2002 3:01 PM
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Subject; Slight change
Chris,
Bob is enroute and asKod ms to fax the following to you. He concurs with the release.
Jane
Wa gave FEMA and the city some credit for the extension in this version..... .
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October 2. 2G02 (3:00pm)
EPA, FEMA AND CITf EXTEND DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR DOWNTOWN CLEANUP
AND
TESTING PROGRAM
New York, N.Y. ? In response to requests from some residents for more lime, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, In conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management
Agency and the City of New York, today announced that it will extend the deadline for lower
Manhattan residents to sign up for either cleaning and testing or testing only until December 28.
2002 to give downtown residents mere time. Under the EPA World Trade Center Residential
Dust program, residents living below Canal. Allen end Pike Streets may ask to have the’r homes
cleaned and tested for airborne asbestos by certified asbestos contractors or they may ask for
testing alone under EPA's lower Manhattan cleanup program.
To date, 1088 people have requested tasting and 4129 have asked for cleaning and testing. The
Agency expects to release results of sampling lete next week.
For more information about the program or to sign up for the program, residents can either visit
ERA'S web at ww^j^aoy/^ or call l-STZ-ZSe-SATi or (for hearing impaired) 1-8OO-3S6-1O18
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