WTC questionnaire staff distribution notice, October 2004

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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Feds to foot $11.7^1 bill for school WTC cleanu By ALISON GENDAR and GREG CYTRICH potentially asebestos-Iaden dust in their DAiiy NEWS STAFF wRriERs homes can call a toll-free number to or- The Board of Education - on’t be stuck der a free cleanup. . —ai with a nearly $12 million bill to clean po- The Environmental Protection Agency? tentially hazardous World Trade Center agreed last month to create the unprec& 5 dust from downtown schools officials dent^ hom^Ieaning program after ij J said yesterday. beseiged by complamts from people The Federi Emergency Management li^mg new Ground Zero who were Agency told school officials yelterday that it would reimburse $11.7 million spent in cleanup and environmental test- *!?“ would eventually also cover $5 million ?2SS2 “ (^Uao^ i’2«5S?SmM?SSS: settled. spent to clean schwls in buUdings leased j^e cleaning can be requested by caU- ing (877) 796-5471 or going to Brad Gair, federal recovery officer for w^epagov/wte the World Trade Center disaster, told city fhe hotSne wiu'be staffed to take clean- and school officials the news in an hour- ing and testing requests 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., long conference caU yesterday. Monday through Friday, and 10 a,m. to 5 Gair told the Daily News in April that p m. on weekends. K&'tt.lSSSSSKSXSiS: Money SSlS?J5SSfiSSr' “*'^ 4SS!i&'Sg«lfJ5*V!SK ■ The boaS is sffll pushing tor $103 mil. An' Proflss^nal cleaning costs about $1.50 ?****'♦ FEMA hw pgp square foot, and the tab can quadru- authorized to cover, and $40 ifAsbestos is detected. f®*" mental health services for *' Those who register for the fed-man- st>^‘^umatized students. agej cleanup can track their requests “We made, real progress today m get- and learn the results of testing and clean- ting this decision from FEMA, but the re- up on the Web or through the hotline. maining costs to the system still need to The clear..ng is expected to begin in Ju- be met for the sake of New York’s school ly. kids,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D- Critics of the program insist deanup Manhattan), a FEMA critic. should be mandatory and entire build- The feds also aimounced that tb<— liv- ings — not individual apartments — ing near Ground Zero who t _ teanul of should be scrubbed. ti u-n.tfM

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