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Reports on whether it is safe for workers to return to the Hart Senate Office Building after the anthrax-decontamination project undertaken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Symptoms being experienced by staff in their offices; Description on the role of the EPA in the anthrax cleanup; Statement issued by Bruce Milhans, spokesman for the Architect of the Capitol.

Reports that the Washington D.C.-based Hart Building office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., was reopened on April 3, 2002 after anthrax cleanup. Other sign that U.S. congressional routine is returning to normal.

Discusses efforts to clean up areas which have been exposed to anthrax in the United States. View that the cleanup of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. may be difficult due to its size; Use of Sandia foam, a decontaminant which oxidizes and destroys the outer shell of the anthrax spores; View of anthrax expert Bradley Perkins that eradicating every last trace of anthrax from a contaminated building may be impossible.

Focuses on the planned anthrax decontamination for the Brentwood Post Office in Washington D.C. Number of people working on the cleanup; Specifications of the Brentwood facility; Cost of the project.

Reports the anthrax decontamination efforts of Environmental Protection Agency at Hart Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. Decontamination process into the offices of Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle; Detection of Anthrax spores in Capitol office buildings; Schedule for the postedcontamination test.