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:,Wf2<3 mg, and in private industry lie might have been described as a plant engi neer. Stewart was in charge of building r - - maintenance, rqrairs and alterations. In the ease of new buildings, he acted as owner-representative from the lime a Twenty trucks teed 10 pumps in 17-nour, 5,458-cu-yd pour lor nuclear plant. decision was made to construct a build ing until the time it was completed. For this reason he was the target of critics in the architectural profession, Concrete placement record put bn pedestal and also found some fault-finders in Congress. He reaped the most criticism Walsh Construction Co., New York The mix used standard aggregates for the extension of the cast front of the .City, may have set a record for the big-, and conformed to government spccifi*. Capitol, and construction of the Ray- f' gcst single concrete pour in one day. j . cations. ' burn House OfTicc Building and the f*^Yyalsh placed 5,458 cu yd of struc-Nine of the pumps, rated at 60 cu yd Sc enate OfTicc DBuilding-. tural concrete in 17l/r hours for the tur- per hour, were of American mar. jfac- - ; Stewart was appointed to the bine pedestal of Chicago's Com lure and the lOtli was from Germany. $27,000-a-year lifetime post in 1954. monwealth Edison Co. nuclear The placement was virtually without .* powerplant at Zion, 111. The pedestal, incident. Early in the operation, one of*, Stadium site, transit scheme to support the plant's 1.1-million-kw the pumps broke down but continued .; turbine, is 207.5 ft long, 57 ft wide and pumping on one engine to place an-! rejected by Seattle voters 50.5 ft high. j - other 365 cu yd of concrete. Three' \ In placing the concrete, Walsh used pumps were used in the initial phase' Seattle voters last week rejected a 5440- 10 concrete pumps, 72 transit mixers with the others coming into service as million rail-bus transit bond proposal and four concrete batch plants, one, its the concrete began rising. : . and probably killed their S40-mi)lion own and three outside plants. The five, Walsh, using conveyors, required 26 domed stadium project by voting 5-in. slick lines of the pumps ran 50 ft to 23 hours on a similar sized pour in against approval of its already-pur-^^m the flat and GO ft vertically. October for the pedestal base. chased site. .t The stadium planned for the sue would have been topped by a 6G0-fi- 'City may ban sprayed-asbastos fireproofing dia thin shell concrete dome The pro posal involving the site went on the bal New York City may' prohibit the violation of the city's temporary regu lot after the Washington State Supreme spraying of asbestos-content fire lations that spell out how a contractor Court overturned a lower court ruling proofing material because the material applies sprayed asbestos (F,.\R 5/7 that would have invalidat'd the voting i' is believed a cause of cancer. p. 21). results. Observers indicated that fears The possibility was revealed in a But even as city officials were pon of traffic congestion at the site and loss publicized letter to Commissioner Rob- dering a sprayed-asbestos ban, the fire of Seattle's American League baseball lerl Rickies of the city's Department of proofing segment of the membership of 1 franchise were major factors in the l\ir Resources from Austin J. Tobin, ex- the International Association of Wall negative vote. :cutivc director of the Port of New and Ceiling Contractors, (formerly the More than two years after the origi fork Authority. Contracting Plasterers and Lathers) nal SlO-million stadium bond proposal "You have advised us," the letter met in Winnipeg this week with the was approved by the voters (ENR read, "that you arc recommending that medical researcher who started the Hap, 2/22/63 p. 112), $10 million of the the city's new air pollution code include Dr. living J. Selikoff. Believing the re bonds have already been sold and over half arc spent, Sl.S million for the land and S70U,QUO lor design fees. 1 lie rail transit system turned down is essentially die same -If-milc network defeated two years ago ,'i NR 2/22/GH p. 112). Added u .is pi iivi '.inn lor a comprehensile inteinn 1ms system that a provision banning the spraying of all asbcMos-coiunining material in the city of New York." The letter's primary purpose was to inform Rickies that non-ashrstos fireproofing would he used oil the World Trade ('.enter. The center is one of rive building projects where fiieprouling of steel members ports of the threat to health and the link to cancer were exaggerated, they wauled the story from Dr. Selikoff, di rector of the Division of Environmental Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, New Yoik City, ami an adviser to New Yoik's Department of Air Rcsouucs. But the doctor told them the situation would have been operational by 1972. hud been halted since mid-April for was as reported. AROUND THE WORLD Asbestos hearing held ' - v * ; Water cannon--A U.S. patent was Bridge work halted--New York Gov. Danje^ oflung cancer cited as New York City ponders ban granted a Soviet inventor for a jet Nelson Rockefeller (R) has stopped pre nozzle that, it is claimed, produces 1- liminary planning for a SI 40-million The use of asbestos as a fireproofing million-psi pulsed jets. Tcrraspacc, Inc, bridge over Long Island Sound be and insulating material for buildings in Bethesda, Md., which acquired the tween Westchester and Nassau counties New York City eventually may be out U.S. rights, says it lias begun devel until a comprehensive study is made of lawed because medical research shows opment work to apply the,nozzle to a the area transportation needs. Backed .the material can cause lung cancer. hard-rock mining machine. = by the governor in 1967, the bridge has | The possibility of a ban was sug since come under bitter protest from gested last week at public hearings Harry Truman Dam--President Nixon civic groups and local officials, who say aimed at making permanent the tem signed a bill naming the Kaysinger it will cause traffic congestion, porary rules now governing the method Bluff project on the Osage River in of spraying asbestos on the exposed Missouri after former President Harry Snoqualmie dam approved--The steel surfaces of steel frame buildings. Truman. The project, whose 160,000- Board of Engineers for Rivers and Har Robert Rickies, commissioner of the kw powerhouse will have the nation's bors approved construction of the 547- city's Department of Air Resources, first reversible tubular units, is now un million Middle Fork, Snoqualmie [said that to enforce the regulations on derconstruction. River Project in Washington. Its princi- the five building jobs where spraying pal feature is a rock and carthfill dam 6 operations were under way held the full Prevention creates problem--Ex miles east of North Bend. - ; ! attention of five of his field staff of 50. cavation costs on a 400-acre highway Spraying operations at five buildings project will increase from Si,200 to Nine above estimate--An Argentine- halted in mid-April because of- visible $5,400 per acre, say contractors, after Uruguayan consortium headed by Em- emission of asbestos into the area the Allegheny County, Pa., pollution presa Argentina dc Cemento Armado, around the job sites. board, upholding a 1969 code, refused Buenos Aires, was apparent low bidder About two weeks ago, spraying oper them permission to continue burning at $8.2 million for a 2.5-miIc Uruguay ations resumed on the World Trade trees and bushes. There is the problem River crossing about 170 miles north of Center. There a nonasbestos material is now of disposing of decaying debris Buenos Aires (ENR 1/29 p. 15). The es now being used, according to Austin J. that supports vermin and is unsuitable timate was S6.6 million for the struc Tobin, executive director of the Port of for landfill. . ture. Eight other bids ranged up to New York Authority (EXR 5/28 p. 17). S 17.6 million. Although Rickies did not mention Hawaiian dam proposed--A study pre the possibility of a complete ban on pared by Parsons, Brinckerhoff-Hirota New department--The New Jersey leg- / sprayed asbestos he indicated this goal Associates, Honolulu, calls for a dam islature passed and Gov. William Ca-/ in recent conversations with Tobin, that would provide storage for 5,492 hill (R) signed a law creating a new Rickies' emphasis on the manhours acre ft of water and an effective yield of State Environmental Protection De needed to enforce the regulations sug 10 million gal a day in the Kohala partment to handle all environmental gested that he thought such policing a Mountains. The dam would rise 205 ft matters now scattered through various less efficient method of protecting pub high and 2,000 ft long oA the Koha- state agencies. Richard J. Sullivan, foiV lic health than a ban. kohau stream at an elevation of 3,700. mcrly head of the dean air and wate; Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, director of the Cost of the two-stage project is esti division, is the new commissioner. Division of Environmental Medicine at mated at S 15.4 million. New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital, Dctailer association--The National In-P and one of those researching the effects Super drydock--Mitsubishi Heavy In- stitutc of Steel Detailing, has beent of asbestos on workers, said he was not dustrics, Japan, is applying for govern-'' formed by the steel detailers not affil- certain that other mineral fibers beside ment approval to build a S79-million iated with steel fabricators. The associ- ' asbestos--rock wool and fiberglass, for shipyard near Nagasaki that might handle vessels weighing over 1 million tons. The drydock will be 3,200 ft long, 330 ft wide and 40 ft deep. ation has 130 member firms employing about 400 persons. The organization aims at obtaining legislation in the states that require licensing of steel instance--are safe if inhaled. I am not willing to play Russian roulette with the people of New York, he said, and I'm unwilling to wait until further re Big second--A S250-mil!ion high-rise commercial development is planned for a 128-acre site at El Scgundo, south of Los Angeles International Airport. The project, will coniain 25 buildings, ac cording to the developer, Sepulveda Properties, Inc., a company formed by Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, Idaho, and Chevron Land & Development Co., detailers. The organization is head search determines the safety of the quartered in New York City. nonasbestos materials. Selikoff said the amount of asbestos Airport monorails--A S2-million sus that will cause cancer is unknown, but j,pJ-e'Vnl IUdeVdU monora*il system tlihnant VcaMrIrIiIeVsJ upLJ J-r LthI Ita* Lt *2,V0 yearsJTL.<Lii Uorl imilVoLrVe VoIf iInlllhiaailUatllioVnil VoIf to 2,000 people an hour is operating at i asbestos by workers makes them highly Dallas' Love Field airport. The mono- | prone to the disease, rail runs V* of a mile between an airport I Representatives of contractors and parking area and Braniff Inter- v manufacturers of sprayed-asbestos national's passenger-loading wing. The \products promised full cooperation in l.os Angeles. Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mcnccr,nail, Los Angeles architccts-enginccrs, prepared the master plan. system operates by destination and carcall buttons similar to those of an auto matic elevator. promulgation and enforcement of the regulations. They also indicated they would develop a wider range of nonas bestos fireproofing materials. 18 FW! |.,n- t !'ro CITY ACTS TO CURB . ASBESTOS SPRAY! Begins Hearings on Cancer, Peril in Industrial Uso j By DAVID BIRD ' The city opened hearings ves- [ terday on proposed regulations ! .i chat would control the spray- I in" of asbestos to insulate and fireproof buildings. . ! The regulations concerning asbestos, which has been strongly implicated ns a can cer-causing agent, would be the j first of their kind in the coun-} try. ... - I But because expert testimony I yesterday indicated that substi-! tutes might be just as harmful, officials said the regulations. would be extended to the' spraying of ajl such material. One rf the witnesses was Dr. Irving J. Sclikoff, director of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory at Mount Sinai Medical Conte*-- and a leading specialist on tiro dangers of as bestos. He said that it had taken long years of study to prove that asbestos caused cancer and that he was not willing to "play Russian rouiette with the people of New York" to wait' and find out if the new Sub stitute materials would cause cancer. Dr. Sclikoff said that such substitutes as rock wool and fiberglass had long-lasting qual ities similar to asbestos and could therefore remain in the lungs for long periods and dam age the tissue as asbestos did. A Long-Time Suspect * Asbestos has long been con sidered a danger to those who j work with it, but the relatively :*new spraying technique has in- i creased the danger to the gen- I oral public. Most of the spray- i-ing is done to make buildings ! fireproof with the dry asbestos mixed with water and shot i through a nozzle onto beams, ! floors and ceilings. : Spraying has grown rapidlv because it replaces the much : costlier method of enclosing supporting members in con- . Crete. In the spraying process, how- -1 ever, as much as 50 per cent of the asbestos escapes into the : air. .... I To control this, the rcgu'.a- ' tions proposed by the city would require the enclosing of spray J, areas and cleanup and disposal . j procedures. : ....... j Dr. Sclikoff said that as long ago as 1924 it was discovered that people who worked with , asbestos developed scarred lungs. It took almost 30 more rears of study to-link the as bestos with cancer. A study of 632 members of the asbestos workers' union ' here was begun in 1943 by Dr. Sclikoff. By last April 4, he said, . 403 of- the 632 had died, 72 of lung cancer. He termed that number of lung cancer deaths a "disaster'' because in a nor- mal group of that size only' . about 10 such deaths would be I expected. ( J I The physician "said the con tamination had spread to the point where "every person in'. New York City has some as- , . bestos in his lungs." j The proposals'to enclose as-' bestos-spraying areas to protect, the public drew concern from ' the State Labor Department!! that concentrations of the dust| might then be even greater fori1 those doing the spraying., J Jack Baliff, chief engineer oft! the state agency's industrial^ hygiene division, said the high- ` ' cr concentrations of asbestos dust would require breathing! apparatus with an independent! air supply instead of the pres- . ent filter masks. Dr, Robert N. . Rickies, who heads the city's . Department of Air Resources. ' said the new regulations in clude that protection. The hearings resume today at 10 A.M. at The Cooper Union. 51 Aster Place, which is also the headquarters of the Depart-! meat of Air Resources. j . 2o'N0LITE DIVISION : rff/ut' - HEW YORK CONSTRUCTION NEWS Show Cause Order Due in Asbestos Bsr Asbestos Spray Controversy- Tho first show causa order on the sealing of asbestos sp raying equipment was returnable as we wont to press for this week's Issue. The order was supposed to be returned last Friday, April- 24, at 10 a.m. at a hearing in the office of New York City Air. Resources Commissioner Robert N. Rick ies. ` The order was served on the contractor atthe World Trade Center for continuing to spray * the material without complying with the handling of cleanup pro- cedures Institutes by the Com missioner's order_on. April. 13* These Interim .regulations are believed to be the nation's first to control asbestos pollutlon..Ffnal regulations will be written ,s5tef','full publl hearings on the entire questlon^of asbestos use. IN THE Commissioner's" af fidavit on the show causo or der, Dr. Rickies stated that 'ex posure to asbestos particulate may result In lung cancer, mes othelioma, ^md cancer of the peritoneum or the pleura. Med ical research has not as yet established safe levels of ex posure to asbestos containing particulate, `However, thero Is evidence that short exposure at relative ly low levels has caused can cer to develop many years af ter the Initial exposure.' The City agency has been In vestigating the newly Identified form of air pollution with as bestos-familiar technicians at Mount Sinai's Environmental Services Laboratory since last ot" Mayor Lindsay ordered all city construction agencies yesterday to halt the use of sprayed asbes tos on future.projects wherever possible to curb air pollution. A directive from the major's H office said the city's Environ mental Protection Administration >P-5 has slapped tough regulations on private builders to curb the use of asbestos as insulation on steel < work. Health experts have cited ft 75 the hazard to workers and paj- w serbys. p Lindsay's statement said: "I am E" asking that all construction agen 75 cies and all future works adopt an even more stringent policy. w Public agencies should serve as 2 an excmple to private ones." P Agencies affected by the order P are the Municipal Service Ad ministration, Health Services Ad < ministration, Housing and Devel ft opment Administration and the Housing Authority. vnit/Ki --- V Aq-. structlon News. *. pects read It every week. summer. Since' the regulations wero Is sued on April 11, each of six active asbestos spraying sites have been kept under surveil lance by departmental Inspec - tors. In serving summonses on sites where there Is active sp raying, air pollution Inspectors must be garbed In the protec tive coveralls and respirators, the rules required for anyone entering the site. ii-,, <reiKjr HU'IM im.vuiiA 00(1 was going on at the time, bed ^uil could not find lluytrusbc^ gave up the scaj^i. *f\ .> ang tore nee Dr. Carson /T-Phnsv > n.!Vv6/i that "Th* m niilq'fl.f Viola tions isig.' loni'r Vi the hands of tin; ua:>'ers5y, *but>^7fc the hKfliVfuKnveercsoi^nr-" ApiAv\j?ccd m- tl'AtVlC h(ld fii''(l^pap<>s' peti :a!s tioning fort a # ^ V-iancni-injunc ad- tion nnrflvty_ ft);"inert disniptions. ven The ti*jn"'qV'in? injunction was an granted A' ^iateSufireme Court Justice* Il\rpld E. Simpson in inc- Binghamton\ l CITY SWEARS IN 7Y/0 TO ACT ON ASBESTOS] IS Two new officials of the En Y vironmental Protection Admin istration were sworn in at City Hall yesterday to enable the yo city to take swift action against tly a growing insulating pollution asbestos danger-- that Is ;\1 ng sprayed in the construction of new buildings. . The officials are Robert . in- Rickies, Commissioner of Air r In- Resources, and Neal Fabricant, ne legal counsel for mental Protection the Environ Administra in tion. Both had been working in their posts and were hurriedly ng sworn in so the city could rtz legally ice lations promulgate new regu requiring the contain ne- ment of asbestos dust. v ita- The new regulations -- the un- first of their kind' in the na X fan tion, officials said--are to be on- delivered today to construc tion sites, and will become ef fective at 7 A.M. Monday. is Ion They require that tarpaulins cover areas where asbestos is being sprayed on building eg- structures, that waste asbestos iful be vacuumed and swept into xa- closed containers and that the .? containers be buried in desig apap- nated disposal dust has been cer, especially areas. linked of the Asbestos with can lungs. fu- There has been growing pub :ol- lic concern over the asbestos i Im- danger. Some officials said the ail- regulations, in addition to at tacking the asbestos problem, )ion- would offer the city a point ers of progress on Earth Day, April ive 22,. when nationwide anti- ap- pollution demonstrations - will the b.j held. * ,- ^ N E W YORK POST. TUESDAY. M AR C H 24. U 70 |8 Westchester Rep. Ottinger charged today that "New Yorkers are being unneces sarily exposed to thousands of tons of cancer causing as bestos dust every year." The Democratic Senatorial aspirant said medical studies show that "as many as SO per cent of city residents may have asbestos in their bodies." Noting that 5000 tons of 'A. fireptoofing material will be -'^sprayed on the two large buildings in the World Trade Center, Ottinger said that 1000 tons will be asbestos . "and as much as 50 per cent ' of that is expected to escape into the air." He said that during the con struction of a 30-story build- ` ing 200 tons of asbestos are sprayed, with about half of it escaping. He cited a study made by Dr. . William Nicholson,' of Mt. Sinai Environmental i Laboratories, that showed a concentration of asbestos 1000 times greater than the acceptable level at a location a quarter of a mile from a i recently sprayed site. Ottinger called upon the Fedora) Air Pollution Conti ol Administration to issue ert-' tcria controlling the spray ing of asbestos. Ho said that under present plans the cri teria "are not expected be ,j fore 1072." The candidate recalled that i studies have shown that "persons exposed to asbestos dust have incidence of lung cancer seven times more frequently than those not exposed." Emphasizing that he was not critical of city officials who have been working on this problem for several years, Ottinger said that "only federal regulations could provide effective stan dards for public health." n