Document 2JVdyZ3vpZaR8wR82OGzNbzz5

B.E.A. CflfiffTlEE -4- October 25, 1979 Corporation., Car11s la Corporation and the Abex Corporation. . Ihis-; imsh^0HkkjMgM'liiiibf^rvho scm the Institute's Committee. .Mr. _. Hearer sJBrSn^ptli the ad hoc' committee and this committee. Mr; Blcholsoo- also haCjj*fpde& mi. Hoc coralttee Beatings and is a member of this .. - Co^aittaaonr. Drlslan*, tha> Sacracar;,. has bean invited to-sit in on .... ata ad hoc Cosoittee Heatings. . The Institute has already coordinated activitles as regards labeling sad training quastinanairas with the ad - hoc Committee, in response to a request iron Mr. Blcfaard- Guiaond of the .. EPA's Offlee of Toxic Substances Control..: The EPA is seeking information concerning labeling and training practices with the ala of perhaps a . . _ voluntary guidance document for friction materials users. It was suggested that the Institute should cooperate with, rather than duplicate., the work of the ad hoc committee. This has been done to this point. It is not felt the Institute's coeoittee should duplicate the efforts of the ad hoc Comaittee since the same members are participating an both caBBittaas. Peraser, the Institute would reserve the. right tmoigscrtm'* possible actions of the sd hoc Committee' and' to. teke_its own pcislti / if it felt it appropriate.' Also, should the' Institute membership feel that it is necessary, tM Committee would reserve the.right to.. - reply on Its own to initiatives of the Office of Toxic. Substances-. ' Control. The Committee members recommend that the Institute continue ~ cooperating with the AIA'a ad hoc Coamlttee is making this ongoing response' to the Environmental Protection Agency. Inhere it felt additional . response or other responses were called for it would take that action. It was pointed out that in staffing the Office of Toxic Substances Control some of these working on the guidance document and regulations that may -follorvere new'to the asbestos and'friction'materials area. A masher questioned whether there *ls* anything that the Institute coaid do to help educate EPA personnel concerning friction materials and their use of asbestos. It was stated that soma regulatory people approach asbestos, with almost s paranoid attitude. . Sana apparently will not even touch an asbestos-containing brake lining. Perhaps they need to be sham .the tiifference between ran asbestos in les fibrous, natural. makeup and pieces of brake linings and clutch facings which contain locked lo asbestos. Also, they might be able to see the differences with brakewear debris if they could be shown some. . _ A member referred Mr tjbp- ntarline Jteport which was given.-at .the Septaaber 1579 meeting -of AIA, where an attempt was made to study more fully the effects of smoking and .asbestos exposure. In the pest it had been indicated that there had been no more frequency of. lung cancer among asbestos workers who did not smoke than in the general population. Some of the Enterline dace at the September meeting in dicated that there had been some .excess Indication of .lung .cancer with asbestos workers who did hot smoke. It was suggested that a plant tour might be appropriate for.mesbers of . the Environmental Protection Agency to see the controls that had been put in place in the workplace. Perhaps, corporate films or slide