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Daily News Article on WTC Apartment Cleanup Bids

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A newspaper article announcing that the city will seek bids for cleaning contaminated apartments around Ground Zero at an estimated cost of $3,000 to $8,000 per unit.

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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document •. таке а рониси, сопилоииик. оаты Cleanup bids for WTC-area apts. The city is preparing to seek bids for Contractors will use special vacuums the painstaking, expensive job of clean- to clean floors, walls, furniture and even ing contaminants out of apartments books for tiny particles. Workers also around Ground Zero - a job that will will wipe down apartments by hand. begin next month and take a year, offi- The total cleanup bill, to be footed by cials said yesterday. the Federal Emergency Management Tens of thousands of homes surround- Agency, is not yet clear. But the price ing the disaster site have received mail- tag for a single apartment is expected to ings notifying them free testing and range from $3,000 to as much as $8,000, cleanup of their apartments are avail- officials said. able A hotline for people concerned about So far, however, only 3,000 house- contamination, (877) 796-5471, is open until Sept. 3, but that deadline will like- holds have requested cleaning and test- ly be extended, officials said. ing. Another 1,000 have asked for test- The EPA bowed to pressure from infu- ing alone. riated tenants around Ground Zero in The federal Environmental Protection May, promising to clean and test apart- Agency is running the massive cleanup ments for asbestos. The agency main- of dust that could contain hazardous as- tains there is no major health hazard in bestos, dioxin and metals. the area. Celeste Katz NYC-WTC_000151936 .--- DAILY NEWS Wednesday, August 7, 2002

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