[CPEO-MEF] Yokuta classrooms asbestos-free

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Yokota East classrooms now deemed asbestos-free


By Vince Little,
Stars and Stripes, Pacific edition
January 27, 2006


YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan - Engineers, base officials and school 
administrators told parents at a town hall meeting Wednesday that Yokota 
East Elementary School classrooms affected by last fall's discovery of 
asbestos fibers in the nearby media center have no traces of the 
substance but when they might reopen remains unclear.

"We've made great progress," said Bruce Derr, Department of Defense 
Dependents Schools Japan District superintendent. "The classrooms 
involved ... are probably the cleanest rooms in DODEA right now."

He said a report on testing and cleanup will be given to Yokota's 
bioenvironmental group, which will conduct its own independent scrub and 
review before recommending a reoccupancy date.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=34590

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Lenny Siegel
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