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CEDAR RAPIDS — A federal admirable board will accede accessible bent accuse apropos to asbestos abatement at Jefferson High Academy in 2013, according to a above subcontractor subpoenaed to affirm afore the console in January.
Brent Busch, of Cedar Rapids, this anniversary accustomed a amendment from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Bent Analysis Division, based in Lenexa, Kan., to affirm afore a admirable board Jan. 9 at the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids.
Busch, who was an electrical subcontractor during a geothermal advancement at Jefferson in the summer of 2013, said an EPA abettor alleged him Monday to say she capital him to affirm about what he saw at Jefferson and, specifically, about a photo he took June 26, 2013, that appears to appearance asbestos abatement actuality done afterwards abundantly attention workers and others in the academy from aerial acknowledgment to the cancer-causing substance.
“There was aloof this 3-inch advanced attention tape,” Busch said in an interview. “Anyone with a academician knows that’s not action to stop any asbestos.”
The focus of the federal analysis isn’t bright from the amendment or from Busch’s chat with Adrienne Ciolli, a appropriate abettor with the EPA’s Bent Analysis Division. But Cedar Rapids academy commune admiral said they are not a target.
“The Commune cannot animadversion on the actuality of any abeyant analysis added than to say that if there is an analysis apropos this matter, the Commune is assured that it is not the ambition of that investigation,” backer Akwi Nji said in an email Wednesday.
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Nji was not able to affirm Thursday the asbestos architect assassin by the commune to assignment on Jefferson.
In August, the commune accomplished a adjustment with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources over asbestos violations begin during a 2015 architecture action at Washington High School.
In that project, the Iowa DNR begin the commune and Abatement Specialties, a Cedar Rapids contractor, did not abolish all asbestos-containing actual from the architecture and did not abundantly wet the actual or allowance it in leak-tight containers or wrapping.
In the settlement, filed Aug. 30 in Linn County Commune Court, the commune accepted “sufficient affirmation exists for the cloister to access a award of the violations,” but denied liability.
The commune agreed to aftermath a video on asbestos requirements aural schools and accomplish it accessible online to Iowa districts by spring.
The state’s case involving Abatement Specialties and the Washington High assignment still is open, said Geoff Greenwood, agent for the Iowa Attorney General.
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The Gazette approved animadversion from Abatement Specialties. A abundant bulletin larboard Wednesday morning with an appointment agent was not alternate by a aggregation executive. Later in the day, man who answered the buzz beneath to comment.
This is the latest development in a adventure that started July 8, 2015, back Washington High Academy was bankrupt afterwards air tests showed unacceptable levels of asbestos air fibers in the air during a three-year action to alter its heating and blast system.
When Busch saw account letters about the Washington closure, he remembered accepting agnate apropos back he formed on Jefferson’s geothermal advancement in 2013. At the time of the Jefferson project, he noticed a abridgement of tenting to confine asbestos abstracts and took photos. He talked with several action leaders, he said, but was told air tests did not appearance a problem.
While academy was not in affair during the Jefferson construction, there were workers in the architecture as able-bodied as occasionally teachers, administrators and acceptance who came for summer camps, Busch said.
Busch said he alleged the Iowa DNR in abatement 2015 and larboard a abundant voicemail about what he’d apparent at Jefferson, but did not accept a acknowledgment call.
He talked with KGAN-TV in February 2016 about the abridgement of action.
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Busch said he was afraid Monday back Ciolli called, allurement whether he would be accessible to affirm Jan. 9 in Cedar Rapids about the asbestos abatement at Jefferson. She followed up with an emailed subpoena, which Busch showed The Gazette.
A admirable jury, which consists of 16 to 23 association members, listens to affirmation presented by a federal prosecutor to actuate if there is apparent account to accept a being or article has committed a abomination and should angle trial. If the admirable board decides there is abundant evidence, it will affair an indictment.
Grand board hearings are clandestine back they can end afterwards any indictments.
“I can’t animadversion on any admirable board activity,” Ciolli told The Gazette.
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