Questions_and_Answers_Set_7.doc

Questions and Answers Set 7

1) According to your survey and viewing the sampling report, specifically the samples for Drywall. The sample method seems to be a “composite sample” which includes all layers of material in the samples (paint, texture, joint compound, drywall etc.) that was tested as one sample. According to Federal regulations if a composite sample come back with a reading of <1% you MUST treat that entire sampling field as “Asbestos Containing Material” and abate the entire area as “Friable Asbestos”. Because the sample did not come back as “None Detected” the entire area to be abated as such.

Therefore, Your specs call for removing the sheetrock and disposing of it as construction debris is a violation of the federal regulations and I ask you to revise the spec to show that all sheetrock must abated and disposed of as “Friable asbestos” according to all Federal, State regulations.

So my question is: In light of samples, Do we have to abate all the sheetrock in the units as Friable ACM?

ANSWER: The Government will test the Drywall, for asbestos, in Bldgs 21, 180 A &

B, 181 A & B. Results will be posted ASAP. All other drywall sample are LESS

THAN 1% which can be disposed as Construction Debris. Solicitation shall be extended. See attached amendment.