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Ms. Taylor Yes you absolutely will get a response. Our process is to respond to the comments when we issue
the action memorandum, it is usually an appendix to the action memorandum which is a decision document.
And all of those questions and comments will be answered as part of that document.
Mr. Solomon That's all the questions | have, thank you.
REMARKS BY THE ALDERMEN
Alderman Dowd
Just for clarification, you said when they are doing the asbestos removal they keep it wet to keep any particles
from escaping, but when they are doing that, it is pretty close to the Broad Street Parkway. When they are
removing that asbestos would they have to close the parkway while they are doing it, or not?
Ms. Taylor | don’t believe so.
Mr. Santos We would be required to, if any of the air monitoring which is essentially continual while the work is
being done, triggered anything, we would have to shut the job down and mitigate the problem. Gerardo
mentioned wetting the soil and that is effective and essentially have a couple personnel there dedicated with
hoses to water down as things are getting excavated and transported.
Alderman Jette
So on the question of asbestos, | am wondering, my understanding is that asbestos as long as it is in the
ground, poses no threat. Why are we moving it around, why are we removing it, what is the purpose.
Mr. Millan-Ramos It is strictly to facilitate another way of egress into the site other than Fairmount Street. You
see if again we move forward with the local developer, he would need access to the site in that particular area.
If we were to do it ourselves alone with no developer, we would have to do all the trucking, all the moving of
equipment and materials through Fairmount Street. So it is an opportunity to use that particular section.
President McCarthy
The asbestos is in inconvenient place with regard to the site is what the basic issue is.
Mr. Millan-Ramos Correct.
Alderman Jette
To the disturbance of the asbestos would only be in areas that there is going to be construction of roads or
other things?
Ms. Taylor | believe that the developer would like to do some other commercial, that is my understanding
anyway, that he wants to do some type of commercial development in that area as well. So that is another
reason to move the asbestos.
President McCarthy
It is a pretty valuable piece of land to store asbestos on.
Mr. Santos You are right it is valuable and | believe that is exactly why he wants to move it, but more so, you
can see from this plan the areas that Gerardo talked about, satellite sludge areas and then also you see the
