WTC apartment cleaning program article, Oct 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Avaltroni, Robert From: Avaltroni, Robert Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:27 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: Slight change

Good Jobl Just took out the work Tor” ...until December 28,2002 to give downtown residents more time.

—Original Message— From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 3:01 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Slight change We gave FEMA and the city some credit for the extension in this version...... DRAFT October 2. 2002 (3:00pm)

EPA, FEMA AND CITY EXTEND DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR DOWNTOWN CLEANUP AND TESTING PROGRAM New York, N.Y. ? In response to requests from some residents for more time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the City of New York, today announced that it will extend the deadline for lower Manhattan residents to sign up for either cleaning and testing or testing only until December 28, 2002 to give downtown residents for more time. Under the EPA World Trade Center Residential Dust program, residents living below Canal, Allen and Pike Streets may ask to have their homes cleaned and tested for airborne asbestos by certified asbestos contractors or they may ask for testing alone under EPA's lower Manhattan cleanup program. To date, 1088 people have requested testing and 4129 have asked for cleaning and testing. The Agency expects to release results of sampling late next week. For more information about the program or to sign up for the program, residents can either visit EPA's web at www.epa.gov/wtc or call 1-877-796-5471 or (for hearing impaired) 1-800-396-1018.

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