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The government plans to test inside some lower Manhattan buildings for World Trade Center dust.The 7 million dollar effort covers an area south of Canal Street in Manhattan. Tests will be conducted for asbestos, lead and other other substances that could pose health risks unless they are cleaned up.
Critics say the Environmental Protection agency plan doesn't far enough and is voluntary. Distrust remains from the early days following Nine-Eleven when then-E-P-A Administrator Christine Todd Whitman assured New Yorkers that the air was safe to breath.
The E-P-A says the test plan "incorporates the best science available."
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