EPA memorandum on WTC environmental data concealment, July 2004

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Only air asbestos data for 9/14/01 and later is available on the www.epa.gov/wtc website.

The EPA website does not contain any of the EPA's air testing data before the samples started at 8:00 PM on the night of 9/14/01. The tests took 12 hours, because a large volume of air had to be pulled through the monitoring device. Both EPA's spreadsheet version of its air asbestos data, as well as their map-linked versions of the same data posted at www.epa.gov/wtc did not include any air asbesto.s data before this time.

web posting locations given earlier in endnotes

For all EPA press releases, see www.epa.gov, then go to the "Newsroom".

Scanned versions of the hard copy "Daily Summaries" may be found at the following web site: ww.NYenviroLAW.org . After 9/30/01, EPA summarized all the Daily Summaries into one document for posting on its web at http://www.epa.gov/wtc/data_summary.htm . However, not all the information was included.

The fast laboratory turnaround time, within hours, for asbestos has been documented. The 9/15/01 "Daily Summary ..." by EPA stated the following:

EPA has established nine permanent air monitoring station in and around ground zero. These monitors are taking samples in 12-hour intervals and are being tested for asbestos. Samples have been sent to a lab, and results are expected late morning. ...

EPA started taking its first air samples at 8:00 PM on 9/14/01, and stopped the test at 8:00 AM on 9/15/01. This "Daily Summary" says on 9/15/01 that EPA will be getting the results within a few hours. This information comes from the spread sheet version of the asbestos air data posted at www.epa.gov/wtc .

Combining these two facts documents the fast turnaround time for asbestos results by the laboratory, and thus that NYC as well as EPA would have been aware of the NYC test results within hours.

Scanned versions of the hard copy "Daily Summaries" may be found at the following web site: ww.NYenviroLAW.org . After 9/30/01, EPA summarized all the Daily Summaries into one document for posting on its web at http://www.epa.gov/wtc/data_summary.htm . However, not all the information was included.

Scanned versions of these documents may be found at the following web site: ww.NYenviroLAW.org

” For all press releases, see www.epa.gov, then go to the "Newsroom".

Associated Press (July 7, 2004) Senate rooms to reopen after cleanup.

http;//seattiepi.nwsource.com/printer/ap.asp?category=l 153&slug=Capitol%20Asbestos

” EPA (1992) Demolition Practices Under the Asbestos NESHAP, EPA Pub. 340/1-92-013,

http://yosemite.epa.gOv/r5/r5ard.nsf/0/1369426el73932de862566020058a60f/OpenDocument

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