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ASSOCIATES INC.
January 31,2002
Mr. Bernard P. Orlan
New York City Board of Education
Director, Environmental Health & Safety Unit
28-11 Queens Plaza North
Long Island City, NY 11101
Re: Limited settled dust bulk sampling for fiberglass at P.S. 234M
Dear Mr. Orlan:
At your request, ATC Associates, Inc. representative Mr. Yiannis Efstathiou visited P.S. 234M
located at 292 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007 on January 29*, 2002. The purpose of
the site visit was to perform a settled dust bulk sampling to be analyzed for fiberglass fiber
content on areas indicated to ATC by ENVIRON Corp, the Parents Association environmental
consultant and approved by New York City Board of Education (BOE). These areas are the
following:
• L'floor hallway
• Cafeteria
• Gymnasium
• Auditorium
• Two classrooms facing South
• Classroom Facing East
At the time of ATC’s site visit it was no possible to collect a settled dust bulk sample from the
cafeteria and Gymnasium.
The purposed of the dust bulk sampling is to determine if settled dust in the school contains
fiberglass fibers. ATC will be repeating this sampling preferably every Tuesday as per the
recommendation of ENVIRON and after the approval of NYC-BOE. This is the second week
such a sampling is performed in P.S. 234M.
As per your request, a total of five (5) settled dust bulk samples were collected from the
aforementioned areas and were analyzed utilizing Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM).
Analytical results indicated that none of the five (5) collected settled dust bulk samples contain
fiberglass fibers.
CONFIDENTIAL, CITY_21MC100_011532334
SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER NO. 2, SEPT. 2008
NYC-WTC_000177918
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