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Contracts for EPA’s Downtown Residential Dust Cleanup Program Are Awarded

Release Date: 09/16/2002
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(#02096) New York, N.Y. – Eight contracts have been awarded for the downtown World Trade Center residential dust cleanup program by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP). The cleanup program will be managed by EPA. Two contractors, one project monitoring contractor and one cleanup contractor, will work in each of four quadrants of the eligible cleanup area – south of Canal, Pike and Allen Streets, river to river. These quadrants were drawn to allow each contractor to handle an equivalent number of requests ( see map of quadrants ). The monitoring contractors will schedule cleanups and testing, do a pre-cleanup walk-through to gather information and answer questions, monitor the work of the cleanup contractor and conduct all sampling. This sampling includes post-cleanup air sampling, air sampling in homes at which only testing was requested and wipe samples taken in a subset of homes. As of today, nearly 4,400 residents of lower Manhattan have signed up to have their homes tested, or cleaned and tested, under EPA’s Residential Dust Cleanup Assistance Program. About 3450 are asking for cleanign and testing and 970 for testing only. In May, EPA and its federal, state and city partners announced a comprehensive plan to ensure that apartments impacted by the collapse of the World Trade Center have been properly cleaned. The plan was developed in consultation with the multi-agency Task Force on Indoor Air in Lower Manhattan created by EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. A hotline to register residents for the cleanup program was launched in June. EPA has already begun testing homes for asbestos in air, and cleanups will begin this week. The eight contractors and contact information, listed by quadrant, are as follows: 1. Quadrant A (ZIP Codes: 10013, 10213) Monitoring - ATC Associates Cleanup - Trio Asbestos 2. Quadrant B (ZIP Codes: 10002, 10004, 10005, 10006, 10041, 10081, 10242, 10274, 10271, 10270, 10269, 10268, 10265, 10260, 10256, 10249, 10286, 10279, 10278, 10277, 10275, 10080, 10045, 10043, 10007, 10008, 10282) Monitoring - Cole Consulting Cleanup - JBH Environmental 3. Quadrant C (ZIP Codes: 10038, 10273, 10292, 10272) Monitoring - Warren & Panzer Cleanup - Kiss Construction, Inc. 4. Quadrant D (ZIP Codes: 10047, 10048, 10280, 10281, 10285) Monitoring - Athenica Environmental Services Cleanup - Termon Construction, Inc. Contractors will have identification and will give the resident the confirmation number that was provided during sign up. If residents suspect that a company may be fraudulently posing as a contractor for the cleanup program, they should call EPA’s Office of the Inspector General at 212-637-3036. For more information about the cleanup program, visit EPA’s WTC Web site (https://www.epa.gov/wtc) or call EPA's WTC Hotline at 1-877-796- 5471 or, for the deaf and hard of hearing, TTY 1-800-396-1018.