I know the management of the C&TS is fully aware of the unnecessarily expensive nature of asbestos removal, but they are also aware that as a highly visible and regulated entity, they need to play by the rules. The good old days in which your asbestos could mysteriously vanish are gone. Whether this is a good thing or not is a discussion for another time and place. Calling the management PC, as one poster did, trivializes the situation. One either obeys the laws or one doesn't. Check out the Tarantula Train's travails for an illustration of what happens when one doesn't. 'Nuf Said.