WTC -EPA Considers Paying for Apartment Cleaning

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EPA Considers Paying for Apartment Cleaning

By Margaret

Newsday

April 13, 2002

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Seven months after the World Trade Center collapse, the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency said Friday it was considering paying for the cleanup of

hundreds of dust-filled apartments and offices in lower Manhattan.

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In a heated exchange between EPA regional director Kathleen Callahan and

Assemb. Gottfried (D-Manhattan), Callahan said the agency was

considering the possibility of paying for indoor cleanup of buildings.

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More troubling were results of limited indoor testing done by the city

agency. Avaltroni said that of 2,622 samples submitted by building owners,

169 samples contained levels of asbestos greater than 1 percent.