[Carry_Okie]

Short fiber asbestos is nothing to fool with and it does occur naturally in the ultra mafic rocks of the California foothills. The problem the EPA faces is that the stuff is everywhere...what will they do, make everyone move??

Here's a clue: It's not legitimately EPA's problem. If the owners choose to purchase and use land bearing an inherent risk of asbestos exposure, don't you think that's their right as long as they own the consequences? Heck, we might actually learn that the whole problem was overblown (an outcome EPA could never allow). Of course, there is probably enough forensic and statistical data available in El Dorado County to make that case incontravertably.

My bet is that some of the residents may well be forced to move, as part and participal to the environmentally destructive real estate and resource racketeering scam that civic environmentalism has largely become.

[Cuttnhorse]

You are exactly right, it is not a federal or any government problem. If a home owner did not properly inspect the property before buying, and finds out later there is something nasty on the site, he has legal avenues.

It is certainly not a federal issue.

[editor-surveyor]

"If the owners choose to purchase and use land bearing an inherent risk of asbestos exposure, don't you think that's their right as long as they own the consequences?"

Sounds like you've finally come around to my line of thinking. :o)