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World Trade Center families file notice of claim over `proper burial PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 18 October 2004
World Trade Center families file notice of claim over `proper burial'

By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer

October 14, 2004

NEW YORK -- World Trade Center victims' family members announced Thursday that they have filed a notice of claim against the city, the Port Authority and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. over the treatment of their loved ones' ashen remains. The group, WTC Families for Proper Burial, wants city officials to remove the fine-dust remains of the victims from the Fresh Kills landfill and bring them back to the trade center site to be part of a planned memorial there.

The notice of claim, a necessary step before filing a lawsuit against a government entity, lists 19 specific claims including the dumping of human remains at a landfill, "infliction of emotional distress to next of kin and victims' families" and "failure to acknowledge and provide for proper burial consistent with religious convictions and beliefs of victims' families."

Kenneth Becker, chief of the trade center unit at the city's law department, said city lawyers have received the papers and will review them thoroughly.

"Obviously, the World Trade Center tragedy is something that is a sensitive issue for all the families," he said.

A Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman, Steve Coleman, said: "As an agency that lost 84 employees on Sept. 11, 2001, we are very sympathetic to this issue. However, Port Authority had no role in the removal of material from the World Trade Center site. And as we have said in the past, the concerns over the disposition of the Fresh Kills ashes should be addressed as part of the World Trade Center memorial process." The Port Authority owns the trade center site.

Lower Manhattan Development Corp. officials had no immediate comment.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has opposed the idea of attempting to move the fine particles of blood, bone and human ashes that are believed to be mingled with the cement dust and pulverized glass from the collapsed buildings. The city has cited the enormous cost of removing more than a million tons of the material and insists that all identifiable human remains have been removed.


http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--sept11-landfill1014oct14,0,2704367.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
 
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