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09-06-2007, 10:32 AM
The Government Accountability Office is criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency's program that offered lower Manhattan residents a chance to have their homes tested for toxic World Trade Center dust. GAO evaluators said the Environmental Protection Agency should have been expanded its cleanup to include office buildings and other parts of the city. In addition, the GAO report claims that the EPA was wrong to have left the job of testing workplaces to other federal agencies. According to the report and an earlier claim by the GAO, the EPA discouraged people from taking part in the program, by saying that a first round of testing after Sept. 11, 2001, had produced few positive tests for unhealthy levels of asbestos. The EPA, in a lengthy written rebuttal, called much of the report misleading. The EPA's regional administrator for New York, Alan Steinberg, said the GAO had ignored complaints about the report's accuracy.
The report was prepared at the request of three New York Democrats _ Sen. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
For more information:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-health0905sep05,0,4573880.story
The report was prepared at the request of three New York Democrats _ Sen. Hillary Clinton, U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler and U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
For more information:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-health0905sep05,0,4573880.story