Community Board 2 resolution to DEP, December 2004

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

1. EPA will conduct, with appropriate input from the community, comprehensive indoor environmental testing for multiple contaminants. The testing will occur as promptly as possible.

2. EPA will expand the geographic range of the testing from its original boundaries to include all affected areas, to be defined by dust having the characteristics of the World Trade Center disaster and/or by complaints of the citizenry.

3. EPA will test both residences and workplaces. Landlords, residents, employers, and employees will all be given the option of volunteering to have their respective buildings, residences, and workplaces tested.

4. EPA testing will include mechanical ventilation systems.

5. Where test results warrant, EPA will decontaminate not only the tested buildings but the neighborhoods affected by 9/11 contaminants. The clean-up clearance criterion for each identified contaminant will be based upon consideration of health-based benchmarks and background levels, utilizing the criterion that is more protective.

6. EPA will, with appropriate community input, take the lead role in supervising the environmental safety of all 9/11-related clean-up, demolition, and reconstruction activities.

7. As EPA evaluates unmet health needs resulting from the attacks, it will support all necessary national and local efforts to ensure public health education, outreach, and long-term medical follow-up for affected communities and to ensure medical care for affected individuals.

Vote: Unanimous, with 25 Board members in favor.

Please advise us of any decision or action taken in response tp<mis resolution.

Sinqje|ely,

im/SW^Chair Z RickTan^, Chair ommunity Board #2, Manhattan Environrnent Committee Community Board #2, Manhattan

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cc: Hon. Jerrold Nadler, Congressmember-via fax Hon. Thomas K. Duane, NYS Senator - via fax Hon. Deborah Glick, NYS Assemblymember - via fax Hon. Alan J. Gerson, Councilmember- via fax Hon. Margarita Lopez , Councilmember Hon. Christine Quinn, Councilmember - via fax Hon. C. Virginia Fields, Man. Borough President - via fax Commissioner Jonathan Greenspun, CAU - via fax Bradford Sussman, Community Liaison, MBPO - via fax

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