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to some of the Real Estate organizations and I asked OEM
to help in setting those meetings. I’m not clear if OEM was
gong to help although they indicated they could. However,
to be safe, maybe we should reach out ourselves with help
of the Public Outreach group (Laurel Blatchford). Laurel left
the meeting early before I could get to speak to her. We
already have a meeting scheduled with REBY for next
Thursday.
All group members were impressed with our progress
especially EPA who asked me to thank Diana and Bob
personally for all that DEP has done.
Staff members are meeting today, Thursday 28, with FEMA
and the Landmark Preservation people to go over cleanup
procedures. Landmark wants to be clear in their minds that
cleanup procedures will not be damaging to buildings (i.e.,
using acid washes - which we don’t).
DOH approached me today asking for DEP’s comment on
the action levels being proposed for cleanup of asbestos.
We have not seen the proposed action levels and DOH will
e-mail me with the particulars. I will share with the technical
staff as well as have the technical staff listen in to Monday’s
conference call of the Chemicals of Concern Working Group.
DOH believes that EPA is going down the road of abating
lots of apartments downtown. I gather from my conversation
that they are well below current standards. More to follow as
we get the data however, we do need to decide what our
comments should be, if any.
I also spoke to OEM and Jim Miller regarding the Hotline
having a list of buildings that presently need to be cleaned. I
told them that we would prefer that the Hotline call us with
any inquiries of same because the list is very fluid. We are
constantly adding and deleting as information becomes
available to us. In addition, cleanup by owners has occurred
without our knowledge. Giving out outdated or the wrong
information is the worst that can happen. We would like to
be as prudent as possible.
DEP was asked by EPA if we have any ambient air data on'
asbestos from any project or study that we have done or
know about in the past. They would like this information to
establish background levels. I told them we would check.
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