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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1983 Oct 6 DOC JMA413 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE A Pipe with Attached Wall Street Journal Article - EPA to Propose Remaining Asbestos Uses j - M Manufacturing Company Inc. ic Rocky Mountain Sales Representatives frets See OCT 11 1983 Internal Correspondence Date October 6 1983 eal or Hank Hank J. Jones jee Cizes A. Verploegh Stockton Burnett W. , Stockton File _..g * Chrono PLAINTIFF'S JMMC The attached article appeared in the 10/4/83 As the Wall Street Journal article states a ban or phase out of asbestos the EPA plans to propose the next few containing products over years The position of M ACPPA has not changed That is we feel Manufacturing and problem with the use of A there is no potable water We feel the pipe for the transmission of _ for the handling of C recommended work practices work environment pipe are sufficient to create a safe HJJ ja Attachments 4f a whose . D 002178 JMM Few said it didn't know how operations EPA Acton EPA to Propose in Next Few Months Ban would affect its mining operations in Colowould where its operates operations operations Colomint Moreover Union Carbide said of Or Phase of Remaining Asbestos Uses 10-4-83 10-4-83 A By Andi PaszTOE IN^ PAYMONT A. JOSEPH Siq Repunters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOURNAL WASHINGTON Environmental Pro- the material would be too restly in most inmances and they wanted voluntary action by industry to reduce public exposure to 25- bastos But Edward Edward Kein director of the office be thaits drafting the proposals HOW CONSIDETS 1852 tosto , said the EPA a proven car IPA Administrator Will Ruckelshaus ee _din principle with a package of pro- eer posed regulations agains the camminogen that ques beyond any action the Reagan ad- me PN sonysony sony 235 sony sony 1 ae under QWERY d1582 Manville Corp. the major tests make said the EFA artim probably would have o on us because the company has been rering asbestos with such materials 3 a- probably won't have much of an effect of us because our kind of asbestos is of high purity But the company said in asbestos is used in floor flies and corking Matana usages that EPA apparently will bar Raymark Corp Trumbil that its use of asbestos probably The affected immisdiately company company company said ne asbestos is used mainly in Inclici mater ais like car brakes and clutches | In a related development development the Labor D. partment said is Gemupational Safety aun work Health Adrian w expant Place inspections of its 231 serving possible 23208rules safety agency mated wit angie angie chers chers about the over the demolires industries focusing on Mare Med for protection under Cap Matures with records per 11 of the federal epicy Cade issi lations wy year to ward off sands of lawsuits hom inspect OSHA 3211 : 1li demobilior sites demobilior demobilior sites who claimed injury or death of rel- from ss The material can that have notified the EPA that atives cartzer and stosis an emphy.molition emphy.molition or removal will occur Previously . sumption cause curente disease that gradually Impairs CSHA inspectors often didit know abou thing through starring of the lungs possible omale viciations at suor slips because the work was me Manville de imown as the largest 25 quickly The cooperative effort with the to ban ai aves of cer estos company in the Western world re EPA is to last six months as cement cently sold its large Canadian asbestos In the 1970s the government banned cer- Ever everingsing * everingsing operations tain sprays containing asbastos used for in- ~fi is a farms mineral In Danbury Conn Union Carbide Corp. freproof materials La addition the teg^-ations paoposed teg^-ations that sulation and decoration of new ballings the amwunt of ustakas sed And the EP ordered schools to perform cap in * for all other producte and set up a firmatable safety checks to determine if fibers from as- ot a bestos insulation posed a health threat in for phasing all br few minor uses over the new few years students Recently the EPA has been under administrator 15 the past setor Rezger administrator increasing pressure from lawmakers end _ appointees at the EPA have argued thai ronmental groups and cancer experts at ther^masa quals scientific evidence to other federal agencies to crack down on fu- warrant tough action againg asbestos They ture use of the material also asserted that banning or phasing out - tnd