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FILE NAME: New York State & NY Times (NY) DATE: 1970 Apr 10 DOC#: NY021 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: NYT Article - City Swears in Two to Act on Asbestos CITY SWEARS IN TWO TO ACT ON ASBESTOS New York Times (1857-Currentfile); Ape 10, 1970; ProQuost Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2002) PE- 26 CITY SWEARS IN TWO TO ACT ON ASBESTOS Two new officials of the En vironmental Protection Admin istration were sworn in at City Hall yesterday to enable the city to take swift action against a growing pollution danger-- insulating asbestos that is sprayed in the construction of .new buildings. The officials are Robert! Rickies, Commissioner of Airi Resources, and Neal Fabricant, legal counsel for the Environ mental Protection Administra tion. Both had been working in their posts and were hurriedly sworn in so the city could legally promulgate new regu lations requiring the contain ment of asbestos dust. The new regulations -- the first of their kind in the na tion, officials said--are to be delivered today to construc tion sites, and will become ef fective at 7 A.M. Monday. They require that tarpaulins cover areas where asbestos is being sprayed on building structures, that waste asbestos be vacuumed and swept into closed containers and that the containers be buried in desig nated disposal areas. Reproduced with permleelon of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without perm ission.