[CPEO-BIF] Endicott (NY) tenants

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pulse: Tell renters about TCE pollution
Law would mandate notification of tenants within Endicott plume

By Dena Pauling
Binghamton Press Connects (NY)
Tuesday December 13, 2005

ENDICOTT - Mayor Joan Hickey Pulse said Monday that she will draft a law
requiring landlords to notify tenants that they live within a
subterranean plume of chemical vapors.

"Some are unaware that we even had a problem," Pulse said. "They should
be told by a realtor or landlord."

Pulse said she plans to work with the village attorney to draft a
proposed ordinance in the next couple months. If a law is adopted,
landlords and realtors would be required to inform occupants, homebuyers
and future tenants looking to move into the area, she said.

A Press & Sun-Bulletin investigation in October revealed that some
renters were not aware that they lived in the plume area; some said
their landlords had failed to notify them.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051213/NEWS01/512130336/1006

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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