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DEP ECB Fax:212-361-1724 Apr 10 2003 02:38 P. 03

Director Michael Moran for appropriate action. To date, no response has been received. Our

concerns go beyond the carpeting. It is our understanding that asbestos contaminated carpets

cannot effectively be cleaned, but must be removed. Such removal is usually done as an

“Asbestos Project”, with appropriate safeguards for the removal workers as well as employees.

A petition was circulated in February 2003 signed by ninety-three ECB employees

expressing their concerns and the adverse affects of working in this building. Subsequently, we

were led to believe that tests were conducted by building management. Once again, no

information from those tests has been shared with us. By a memo dated April 2,2003, we were

advised that the tenth floor carpeting was to be cleaned on three consecutive evenings, beginning

that very night (see enclosed notice).

We request that we be furnished inter alia with any and all information, test results, and

documentation on which DEP, ECB and/or building management relied in its repeated

representations that our concerns have been addressed. Kindly forward this information to the

ECB Safety Committee, c/o R. Potasznik, 10‘^ Floor, 66 John Street, New York, New York

10038.

We greatly appreciate any assistance you can render in addressing our concerns. We have

contacted other individuals and entities with no success and would expect that you, as our

Commissioner, can take the appropriate steps to not only assure us of the safety of our work

place but to also provide us with the documentation to support those claims.

Very truly yours.

ECB Safety Committee

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