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RFP for live operator assistance services, May 2002

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Request for proposal documentation and vendor list for live operator services to assist with World Trade Center information inquiries.

NYC-WTC_000161049–000161052

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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

The dangers from asbestos, such as asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma, show up only after 15 or more years, and usually after long-term exposure.

Called for Help The one tenant was worried enough that by mid-April she asked Joel Kupferman of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project to come to 150 Franklin and collect dust samples. Kupferman sent three samples to a laboratory. The lab results showed levels of 1.2%, 1.4% and 1.8% asbestos. He immediately notified the EPA and the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, and those agencies analyzed new samples on April 18. The DEP, using a crude analytical method called polarized light microscopy, detected no asbestos. But EPA scientists, using a more sophisticated method called transmission electron microscopy, found even higher levels, from 2% to 5% asbestos. “We recommended that it be professionally cleaned,” said EPA spokesperson Mary Mears. According to several political and community leaders, 150 Franklin may not be an isolated case. “For almost eight months now people in lower Manhattan who who took the word of the EPA have been living in conditions that are potentially hazardous to their health,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (□-Manhattan) through a spokesman yesterday. Nadler has been demanding for months that EPA test and cleanup the indoor spaces in every building near Ground Zero. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman announced a plan recently to assist the city in cleaning the facades and roofs of buildings downtown, and her aides now say they are considering what to do about indoor spaces.

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