[CPEO-BIF] New York tenant notification bill - for vapor intrusion risk

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Assembly OKs pollution-notice bill
Measure requires landlords to warn tenants of risk

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
May 11, 2006

The state Assembly passed legislation Wednesday that would require 
landlords to notify tenants about risks from pollution like the kind 
affecting properties in Endicott.

The bill, authored by Assemblywoman Donna A. Lupardo, D-Endwell, would 
require landlords of affected properties to advise tenants about vapor 
intrusion -- a process in which vapors from subterranean chemical spills 
waft into homes.

The pollution, primarily from trichloroethylene (TCE) "poses a serious 
health concern for some of my constituents," Lupardo said Wednesday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060511/NEWS01/605110342/1006

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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