The Freedom Tower

Press reports say more secret World Trade Center papers have turned up in the trash, just days after a homeless man said he found blueprints to Freedom Tower in a New York trash can.

The New York Post reported Sunday that a pair of self-described “salvage experts” said they have twice found piles of sensitive blueprints, schematics and e-mails detailing plans for buildings intended to replace the World Trade Center.

The plans include details of the temporary PATH train station and a proposed Port Authority Police headquarters, the newspaper said.

The men’s first find was about a year and a half ago, and the second was March 13, the newspaper said.

“We knew what we had. I thought the information was important and potentially dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands, and we weren’t going to let that happen,” one of the men said. “We were protecting the trade center. We were protecting the country.”

Port Authority spokeswoman Candace McAdams said the $16 billion project “produces literally tons of building plans and documents that are not privileged and confidential.”

But the newspaper reported that the documents found read, “SECURE DOCUMENT — CONFIDENTIAL FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY,” on every page.