Asbestos sampling results and public disclosure, April 2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Gilsenan, Michael From: Jim Miller [email protected]] Sent: Tuesday. April 09, 2002 8:08 PM To: Nancy Jeffery: Vincent Coluccio Cc: [email protected]; Greg Butler; Jessica Leighton Subject: Re: Fwd: Residential Asbestos Sampling Results; 04/03/02 DRAFT: Notfor Public Release

At a minimum, won't we want to wait until DEP re-attempts to visit the building to which access has been denied?

»> Nancy Jeffery 04/09/02 05:07PM »> Hi Mary,

I wanted to let you know that the sampling plan is already a public document and is available on the NYC DOH website.

With regards to the Asbetos Summary Table, the results actually reflect low levels of asbetsos when detected, and the follow-up actions taken are reflected in the notes for specific buidlings.

Also, I think it's important to understand, that individual letters with the asbestos results have already been provided to each building owner/manager and occupants of the residences tested. This would not be the first time individuals are seeing their results.

I hope this clarifies the issue. We would like to get this out for the public soon, so please let us know if you have add'l concerns...thanks.

»> Vincent Coluccio 04/09/02 03:03PM »> Mary

Thank you for your email. I will discuss this matter with Dr. Miller.

Vin Coluccio Nancy Loder Jeffery Director Environmental and Occupational Disease Epidemiology (212) 788-4290

»> <[email protected]> 04/09/02 01:01PM »>

Hello Vincent: Thanks so much for giving us an opportunity to see this information. Kathy Callahan will be calling Jim Miller to talk to him about this information. We have concerns about releasing this information - which has not been released before and because it begs many questions about what we are doing to follow the study up. Because the study is not final and hasn't been shared with EPA, we don’t feel that we are ready to say what we will do to follow up. Kathy would like to talk this out with Jim.

Vincent Coluccio

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