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ESCAMBIA PLANT INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM To: E.` A. Primeau Dot*: August 6, 1974 From: J. P. Hosier . Copies: R.-E. Jones > J. E. Greasel Re: PVC Time & Motion Studies Attached are 10 copies o my report covering recent time and motion studies on operators in the PVC department. I am sending you all the copies so that you may make distribution to interested parties. Recommendations which would lead to lower VC1 exposure levels to employees are made in the report as well as recommendations re garding labor saving steps or improved procedures. As you know it was decided not to cover the 11-7 shift in view of the fact that the 7-3 and 3-^11 shifts furnished basically the information sought. The individual time and motion studies appear at the back of this report. JFH:aw attachments J. P. Hesler AP00034719 Vinyl Chloride Air-Pollution Limits addition to r.icclir.g \iuyl r/r'nrido celling.', would b-' required to underm ko additional mairilcn uvc, adapt new prcvcio'ng prac To Be Established by Environmenta l Unit tices and in.tall additional equipment, scssment of tho needed requirements and other technical questions will take six to ................ 6 eight ntcv.h::, 3Jr. StoigerwaJt said. 7ty*V?AUi SraneT Jouhnai. Sia.Cf Reporter 8.000 facilities that fabricate polyvinyl chlor According to tho UPA's preliminary c.\l- WASHINGTON - Tho Environmental ide, or PVC, into a wide range of plastic culailon*. ci.inpllance with control require- Protection Agency said it will establish air. products hasn't been decided yet, ihc EPA men'..? will require vinyl chloride and I*VC pjodueer* to make capital investments to pollution standards for vinyl chloride, but 'added. These fabricating plants account for taling .3SO million rod .pend $'0 u>! an agency officirl said a formal proposal on only about 5?i of the total vinyl chloride re lion :n f.mniil control cu.dx. oomc of the.--; - Pie cancer-linked gas still is six to eight leased into the air. with vs already arc uu-h-r.vay, though, i months c.'.'. Vinyl chloride has been under' govern clllv.r I.;-- ip'inlcn acting voluntarily or to \ Although the standards under considers- ment scrutiny since lost January when B. meet ti-' I..bor lv.anr.i ,-ni requirements rwrc.i iy in f tcc, tho ETA said. ^ tion are still tentative, they would add V?c, F. Goodrich Co., the nation's largest pro or cno cent a pound, to the price of poly ducer of PVC rcuin, reported that fi.ur work vinyl chloride, tho while resin produced ers at its Louisville, Ky., plant apparently from vinyl chloride that is used In thousands had died of a rare liver cancer. Report* o: / of plastic products, the ETA estimated. other worker death* and lire high incidence EPA administrator Russell Train an of cancer In laboratory rats exposed to vinyl nounced llic decision to limit vinyl-chloride chloride has strcngUicd medical suspicion?? emissions into the atmosphero after an EPA that tho gas can eauso cancer. Indepen task force found that Industrial sources may dently of the EPA action, tlie Labor Depart bo releasing over 200 million pounds of the ment's Occupational Health and Safety Ad gas into the atmosphere each year. Tl;a task ministration currently is considering tough force concluded that omissions from tho na ening it* vinyl-chloride standard* to protect tion's 15 vinyl chloride monomer plants can workers inside plants. be cut DOCe and from the 37 plants that use When tho EPA sampled the atmosphere I tho gas to make tho polyvinyl cldorlde resin, around selected vinyl-chloride and PVC by rc?e. plants earlier this 'year, none of the vinyl Whether to regulate emissions from the chloride concentrations detected wero a* high as the 50 parts per million considered dangerous to health. However, agency offi cial* believo ronto of tho levels tnrnrurcdi left too narrow a xafciy margin f-.r nev50ta: living to ::u- pi,:r.ft. \ Bernard y.i':\pv wuld, tho HIV. i*'-1 flslant ah.ii;:,ii,'.r.lor in clir.i,;r, .* Icwic.--* lug air-qu.tiity slandardx, raid UJurtry, .a! AP00034720