NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
** 11th However after returning to her workplace, she has experienced
sign. ._cant respiratory disease.
The ; .lers of Steamers Landing Restaurant in Battery Park City: They
state.... that although they undertook a major hazardous materials
reme"tation ot their restaurant at their own expense, they were unable
to c.'. , lect in. ..rance to pay for it, because the EPA consistently and
fals._ .maint.iined that the area was safe.
"Beys'd this .seing a matter of life and death, if workspaces are not
properly tested and remediated for hazardous materials, the City and
State of New ; .ork stands to face tremendous future financial costs in
terms of cont.ngent liability as well as untold productivity impacts due
to a sotential_y massive rise in occupational disease," said Rep.
Nadle . "The dPA must end its stonewalling, and finally carry out its
legal, and mora . responsibility to clean up all buildings contaminated in
the --rorist attack."
Rep. .adler he.a served in Congress since 1992. He represents the Sth
Congressional district of New York, which includes parts of Manhattan
and Brooklyn, :encluding the areas surrounding the site of World Trade
Cent-. .
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Eric M. Schmeltzer
Press Secretary
Office of Rep. Jerrold Nadler
202-225-5635
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