EPA to Begin Final World Trade Center Health Air and Dust Testing

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EPA to Begin Final World Trade Center Health Air and Dust Testing

December 07, 2006 — By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency plans to launch its final Sept. 11 contamination cleanup program next month, more than five years after the attacks and following years of criticism that the agency still has not done enough.

The $7 million cleanup will test the air and dust in nearby apartments and buildings for four contaminants linked to debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers: asbestos, lead, man-made fibers and polycyclic armoatic hydrocarbons.

Officials say the amount of testing and cleanup this time will depend largely on how many people sign up for testing. In 2002 and 2003, the EPA visited more than 4,000 units in the area.

"The vast majority of occupied residential and commercial spaces in lower Manhattan have been repeatedly cleaned, and we believe the potential for exposure related to dust that may remain from the collapse of the World Trade Center building is low," EPA official Dr. George Gray said Wednesday as the new cleanup program was announced.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, one of several New York lawmakers who have complained that the EPA failed to protect public health following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, called the new plan "incredibly frustrating and disappointing."

"EPA has now acknowledged that additional testing is necessary, but the program announced today is totally inadequate," Clinton said in a statement Wednesday.

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I have to give Hillary credit here... The EPA is negligent on purpose

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1. Final? Good luck with that.

The balls of them to announce it as the last they'll do for us.