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...took office on Jan. 1, 2002. After 9/11 the nature of constituent issues drastically changed. Instead of worrying about potholes, I had to worry about whether apartment buildings were safe to live in. Instead of noise and pollution from traffic congestion, it was noise and pollution from debris cleanup. In Lower Manhattan, 9/11 is still a context for virtually all public issues. Of course there's a greater emphasis on preparedness, safety, emergency response. People still worry about the health of the volunteers, the residents, and the workers who were there. As chair of the committee for Lower Manhattan Redevelopment...
...grimmest real estate market remains New Orleans East, where debris, rats and compromised water and sewer lines are making sales - and cleanup - difficult. But even in areas like middle-class Lakeview, where the sea of "For Sale" signs can be daunting (one in three houses, by some estimates), speculators are moving in to buy property - sometimes a whole block at a time - with the classically American conviction that this devastation is a buyer's market not to be missed. "It's the young crowd - 20-, 30- and 40-year-olds who are coming back and making things happen...
...line - and stopped. Congressman Charles Boustany (R-La.) blames the Stafford Act, which doesn't allow FEMA to work on government land. "We had the Army Corps of engineers and the EPA down there, but they couldn't go on federal property," he says. "You could see where the cleanup work was being done, and 100 yards over, there's horrendous debris and hazardous tanks - and nobody's touching...
...wasn't until June that President George W. Bush signed the fourth hurricane appropriation bill giving U.S. Fish & Wildlife $132 million to clean up hazardous material. The delay will end up costing taxpayers more money - because the same cleanup crews that worked last fall have to return to Louisiana and start again. In the year since Rita, the debris has sunk deep into the marsh, making hazardous materials more difficult to find and retrieve. Plus, labels have peeled off containers, so no one knows exactly what they have contained, or how much they have already leaked. No one knows...
...Sabine refuge has been allotted $12 million for cleanup. It's expensive, because the debris piles are in areas that are hard to get to. The biggest pile is stuck in the middle of the refuge - and there aren't any roads leading to it. Cleanup crews can't bulldoze the marsh, because that would destroy the wetlands; they can't burn it, because of toxic fumes. People can't walk in the marsh, because the ground isn't solid (and they don't know what lies beneath the surface). "There's no telling what you'll step on," says...