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are in progress.
Parks released testing information and cleanup of said parks;
only one park tested positive.
DCAS will be sharing with us, as well as EPA’s Indoor Air
Working Group, the test results that they have on 20 City-owned
buildings as well as 40 leased City buildings. They will add to
their report the 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.
Ail group members were impressed with our progress especially
EPA who asked me to thank Diana and Bob personally for all
that DEP has done.
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