AP: EPA Sets Final Sept. 11 Building Testing

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EPA Sets Final Sept. 11 Building Testing

By DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press
Thursday, December 7, 2006; 8:17 AM

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.

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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."

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Clinton has said the plan should expand the area tested and charged that
the agency "is essentially throwing up its hands and washing them of this
problem." She said she would use her new position as incoming chairwoman
of an environmental subcommittee to push the agency for more testing and
cleaning.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/07/AR2006120700408.html