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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA
DATE 1970 Apr 23
DOC NMA142
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Today Show Transcript - Interview with Jerome Kretchmer EPA Administrator for NYC
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Today Show
DATE
April 23 1970 - 7:00
STATION
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CITY
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INTERVIEW WITH JEROME KRETCHMER
MODERATOR In this segment we have two guests one in New York and one in Washington First we're going to talk with Jerome Kretchmer who is newly appointed Environmental Protection Administrator for New York City and will take fice May 1
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KAPTCHMER Wall bere in New York we're into one right
now
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that is really of great consequence to us As not know there is competent medical evidence
you may di which indi-
cates thet asbestos particulate matter when it's sprayed into the ait is baimful to peoGle's M6alth We spia A2SLLStOS
on our commercial office buildings proof the steel and to retard
when we build the steel We
them to
are now
fire in
the process of promulgating a series of rules - we have prom
mulgated a series of rules - to limit the wet in which that asbestos is sprayed And we're very deep into that After
we promulgated the rules -- and we did this in cooperation
with industry I like to call it the carrot and the stick you know let's come in and talk -- and then after we promulgated the rules - industry acreed that they could live with
them the sprayers said that they were reasonable - we went
out and looked at the job sites and they were still sprey-
way ing in a
ambiert -ri:,
which
releases
the asbestos
particulate
into
the
We served two of the worst offenders last week with or
ders to show why the equipment should not be sealed Now if they can't come in and indicate to us that they're going to do this job right or they're going to do it a dirr^rent way then we're going to order them to stop Now that's tough
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KRETCHMER That's right Because the economic conse-
quences of that ere very different We stand the risk of
closing down a tion industry
potential But we're
industry in New
convinced if we
York the construc-
indicate to them
that we really mean business here that they'll either find
different ways to get that stuff on that's not
health or to put this stuff on in the
so harmful to
do it and enclose the area in which
way they are but they'll
they'll just listen
they're spraying and -
The question here is an
to do what has to be done
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This
use the courts and the
- our ability to close
low this
equipment has been in this law for a long long time Nobody's ever taken
things you do
advantare of it Just think of the
before
because
it affects
a person like me who
overriding consequence of
comes into a job like this and in the
first couple of days be's been in he
got to stop spraying asbestos
says Ok now you've
Well I think that that's what this is all about I think somebody has to say to these
asbestos And then
people stop spraying the
the
somebody has to have the initiative and
we hacvaepactihtiys to enforce that order in the courts And I think
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