[CPEO-MEF] Testing asbestos removal at Ft. Chaffee (AR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to Test New Way to Remove Asbestos

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post
August 3, 2005

The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday that it will begin 
testing a new method for asbestos removal as a prelude to rewriting 
federal rules for treating the cancer-causing material.

The Bush administration will experiment at an Arkansas military base 
with the new approach as part of an effort to find ways to demolish 
abandoned buildings more cheaply. The new method wets down the fibrous 
material, which poses serious health problems if inhaled.

The experiment is significant because it could transform the way cities 
across the country tear down tens of thousands of dilapidated buildings. 
It will be subject to public comment, as well as internal and external 
scientific review, before it takes place in March.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201896.html
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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