Limited PCB Remediation, Verification Sampling Work Plan for Malibu High School/Middle School
Dec 21, 2013: Testing & Cleaning Plan
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PCBs are a toxic threat that should not be in any schools. Protecting
children and school faculty from harmful chemical exposures is a top priority for the EPA.
- Judith A EnckUSEPA Region 2 Regional
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We must demand a healthy environment for ourselves and for our children.
- Mariel Hemingway
Joel Shufro, Executive Director of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
(I have) urged the EPA to acknowledge the emerging science on the health
effects of PCB exposure, and apply the precautionary principle to protect school employees,
teachers and children who work and learn in these buildings."
David O. Carpenter, Ph.D. at University of Albany
"There is no safe level of PCBs for kids to breath. PCBs must be removed from
our nation's schools."
Legislative History of TSCA and Banning of PCBs
The EPA is not one of viperous and quick action. This amendment defines PCBs
to be bad, hazardous and dangerous and it mandates a program for their gradual removal, beginning
with those uses which are outside of enclosed containers.
