[CPEO-MEF] Hunters Point (CA) asbestos dust

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

SAN FRANCISCO
Feds will check on Bayview asbestos
Neighbors' complaints prompt examination of airborne dust

Jane Kay
San Francisco Chronicle
August 3, 2007

A federal agency has agreed to examine efforts to limit 
asbestos-contaminated dust from a construction site in Hunters Point, a 
review that could lead to stronger pollution controls at the former Navy 
shipyard.

Residents for months have charged that developer Lennar Corp., which is 
building 1,500 houses on the 66-acre site, isn't doing enough to protect 
their health, although city officials and air-quality regulators say 
ongoing controls are working.

That debate could be settled by the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry, an entity created a quarter-century ago to assess 
public health near the nation's dirtiest toxic-waste sites.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/ASBESTOS.TMP

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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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