NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
same fields as we have in our Private Owners testing results report
so that City Task Force and EPA Working Group can use and plot
the information as needed for their studies.
DEP’s Private Owners testing report was shared with DOITT’s
contractor. Plan Graphics; DCAS’ Sylvia Price; and Dore LaPosta
from EPA. Before releasing said information, Lai-Sun and Steven
Levi from NYC Law gave the okay to share it among the groups.
Law’s position was that health and safety should be the groups
number one concern. They noted that everyone involved should
keep their files in good order since they expect many claims in the
future. The next meeting of the Legal group is Wednesday, 10:00
AM, at HPD. I also mentioned to Lai and Steve that DEP was
working on sending out a letter to buildings owners, in which DEP
identified as having debris, to allow contractors access to the
property so that it may be cleaned up. I told them that Mark had
the letter and had some issues with our draft. Mark for your
information. Asbestos has another draft of said letter including
Russell’s comments. Asbestos will forward it to you on Monday.
I reported at both meetings about DEP’s progress in securing the
contracts for the exterior cleaning of buildings. Bottom line is if
everything falls into place, we can begin sometime during the week
of April 8. We still need to speak 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
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