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FILE NAME: RT Vanderbilt (RTV) DATE: 1977 Aug 15 DOC#: RTV059 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Excerpt - US Consumer Product Safety Commission Public Meeting with List of Participants U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION WASHINGTON. D.C. 20207 Public Meeting on Asbestos August 15,1977 10:00 a.m. List of Participants Opening Statement Commission Chairman S. John Byington . Michael Helton U.S. Gypsum Corp. (20 minutes) ' Julius Nemeth Bondex International (10 minutes) Harry Rhodes Union Carbid Corp. (30 minutes) 3rd Floor Hearing Roo f 1111-18th St., NW Washington, DC Natural Resources Defense Council (15 minutes) Barry Castleman ' Environmental Consultant (15 minutes) Peter Simpson Rustic Crafts Co. . Robert Rauch Environmental Defense Fund (15 minutes) BON - 01275 41 1 of tasting such 3 eithar an optical scan or - 2 3 HR. NEMETH VOD. 4 COMMISSIONER PITTLE/ Bach in the days when you 5 did use asbestos, what percentage , by weight/ roughly, was the asbestos in the final product? , 6 7 MR. FlEMEIHi Well, in the joint cements.; p r o b a b l y a little less than fiva percent. B 9 COMMISSIONER PITTLE Between four and five? 10 MR. N E M E T H : Yes , b e t w e e n four a n d five p e r c e n t . Now, that's an off the top of my head judgment, somewhere 11 12 in t h a t r a n g e . S p a c k l i n g c o m p o u n d s as s u c h w o u l d n e v e r have 13 h a d a s b e s t o s as an o b v i o u s p a r t of the f o r m u l a t i o n , h o w e v e r , 14 t h a t ' s a l i t t l e sid e e l e m e n t t h e r e t h a t we h a v e n e v e r pur 15 a s b e s t o s as s u c h in t o s p a c k l i n g c o m p o u n d s . But - COMMISSIONER PITTLE: That must have bean a 16 17 g e n e r i c t e r m t h a t 's - MR. NEMETHt Well, no, t h i s is p a r t of tha t talc COMMISSIONER PITTLE: Oh. MR. NEMETH: -- process. C O M MISSIONER PITTLE: Oh, did you use talc? MR. N2KETH: Oh, yes. Not m the joint cement out in s p a c k l i n g compounds. COMMISSION PITTLE: Do you stiil use talc or !c that -- BON - O '317 4 2 1 'HR. N E M E T H : "e9. 2 C O M M I S S I O N E R P I T T L E i T h e t e r m a l i t i c (pt) c o u n t ? 3 HR. HKHETHi No longer, no. 4 COMMISSIONER PITTLE: Oh, but you did? 5 MR. NEMETH: Yes, anrlier, yes. All that wont 6 out the w i n d o w as of April. 7 C O M M I S S I O N E R PITTLEt Oh, I see, in April - 8 MR. HKMETBi Whoa the television stations and 9 everybody , and our distributors, and everybody, began 10 calling, and that was the first w a ' d he a r d of it. 11 COMMISSIONER PITTLE: I completely agree with 12 you, the r e g u l a t i o n th r o u g h the press is p robably not 13 fair when tharo" not a chance to evaluate all of the 14 evidence . 15 MR. NEM8TH: Yes. 16 C O M M I S S I O N E R P I T T L E : I t *8 j u s t s o m e t h i n g -- 17 MR. KSMETH: N e v e r t h e l e s s , at that point - 18 C O M M I S S I O N E R PITTEE: It orXs both ways. 19 MR. NEMETH: Of aoursa it does, and rt that point 20 wo d r o p p e d everything, wh i c h w h e n 1 say that, when you do 21 -- w h o a y o u thinfc y o u ' r e on s c h e d u l e , and then all of 22 a sudden from that point on everything becomes a crash 23 p r o g r a m , why some o f t h o s e t h i n g s u e 're s t i l l c a t c h i n g 24 up on . 25 C O M M I S S I O N E R F I T T L E : Vio'rc O',.'.re o f t h a t , i t ' s BON - 013'8