1.   Bannon also admitted that he had provided free asbestos removal services to an unnamed city official.

2.   Both Kedzior and Salvatore J. DiLorenzo, president of PAL Environmental Safety Corp., said these companies handled the vast majority of asbestos removal in the city.

3.   Browner said the indictment was one of a growing number of incidents in which companies or individuals hired untrained workers and failed to provide adequate protection in asbestos removal.

4.   Chief Justice Tom Phillips said he suggested about six years ago that the plaques not be reinstalled after an asbestos removal project.

5.   Collela said that since the danger posed by airborne asbestos is so great, particular care should be taken when hiring an asbestos removal contractor.

6.   David Golub of the Department of Environmental Protection said that as a precaution, asbestos removal crews vacuumed streets in the area.

7.   Even demolition would be costly, with complications like asbestos removal.

8.   He also said that keeping schools open for after-school activities, heating emergencies and asbestos removal had resulted in increased work loads at many schools.

9.   He said that in recent years there has been a noticeable increase in the number of environmental violations by state agencies, especially around asbestos removal.

10.   He was acquitted of two counts of conspiracy and bribery involving an asbestos removal contract for Julia Richman High School in Manhattan.