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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1970 Apr 16
DOC NMA141
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Engineering News Record Newspaper Article NYC Establishes Regulations on Asbestos Use
26-36 ENGINEERING RECORD
WKLY 103.000
APR 16 1970
os New York City establishes regulations on asbestos
New York City last week clamped clamped
down on spraved asbestos used to fire-
proof steel frame buildings because of
the material's material's link to lung cancer ENR 4/2 11
New regulations drafied by the city's Department of Air Resources in the En-
Admins- vironmental
Protection
tration on mid to be the first of their
type in the U.S.
Officials acted after medical research
showed that asbestos dust could cause
hing cancer The relevans are
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poran pending Dublic hearings which they become a city statute
altes
The regulations require that the
of area building wing anes: Ct ee
material be tightly enclosed that waste
of asbestos content be deaned up and placed in scaled contains and then
that the area be cleaned by a vacuum cleaner Asbestos sprayed in air
ducts must be coated with a sealant to pre- dude exposure to circulating air
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PROGRAM
Around New York
DATE
April 21 1970 > 8:30
STATION
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WNYC New York
ASBESTOS SHOW CAUSE ORDER
DELIVERED
NEWSCASTER Acting quickly on New York City's and the
nation's first asbestos polluting regulations Air Resources
Commissioner Robert Rickles said cause orders would be
delivered today to two construction sites He said the or-
ders would be served on sites in New York City
The orders
specified that contractors show cause within five asbestos spraying equipment should not be sealed
days
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Last Friday the World Trade Center received a similar order For the first time the Department of Air Resources had explored such a legal procedure The new asbestos regula-
tions went into effect one WOOK BCD young to control
bandling and clean operations
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