E-mails R. Avaltroni 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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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