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FILE NAME Manville JMA DATE 1974-1976 DOC JMA339 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Riverside Cement Memo & Letter with BC Notes 7/6/98 7/5/98 Riverside Cement President of Riverside Cement reported hiring industrial hygients at application sites in hopes of generating data that exposures of workers are enough below 1 cc to convince OSHA that medical exams are not required Riverside planned to abandon sprayed asbestos if required to provide medical examinations to the workers p 2 of Fenner memo to Solon 8/22/74 DM Manville 536 536 Internal Correspondence To F. J. Solon Jr. Date August 22 1974 From E. M. Fenner Copies R. J. 4 P Carter , Reis 4 Z Subject CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 2419 - BANNING SPRAYING OF ASBESTOS CONTAINING MATERIAL Dick with Carter has talked with Perc Gartly and I Bill Thurber of Union Carbide concerning have talked the present status of this Bill Dick and I both received the same information as to the present situation 1 The Bill has been passed by the Senate 2 3 The Bill has been approved by the Health Committee of the Assembly and sent to the floor for vote . { The Assembly vote on the Bill will come probably Friday August 23 or Monday August 26. The Assembly will undoubtedly vote approval of the Bill There is no conceivable way with the short period of time remaining that the vote can be significantly influenced 4 c Senator Marks has announced his willingness to consider amendments to the Bill in the next session of the legislature which will begin shortly after January 1 1975. the provision's of The the ammendments would exempt from Bill those uses where monitoring has demonstrated no significant amount of fiber release to atmosphere Bill that Thurber the AIA plans to propose to the Standards and Technical AIA Board Committee of Directors arrange to obtain the necessary monitoring data and based on this arranging information write a proposed amendment Thurber informs me that he is to the Bill to monitor spray operations that use Union Carbide's asbestos I suggested to Bill Thurber that if the and an amendment could be written that data was favorable Harry Rhodes of Union Carbide Marks office personally take the and discuss it with amendment to his people Senator Thurber was agreeable to this arrangement F. J. Solon Jr. Page 2 August 22 1974 Jim Reis has contacted the President of Riverside Cement Jim was informed that Riverside has hired an outside industrial hygiene firm to take dust counts at application sites Riverside expects results from this sampling tomorrow If the fiber counts are enough below 1 cc to convince OSHA that medical exams are not required OSHA has accepted the NIOSH recommendation of medical examinations only required when exposure is above 1 cc Riverside will join in the fight for an amendment to the spraying regulation If the counts are above 1 cc they will abandon the use of asbestos because OSHA will require the applicators to have medical examinations 1 E. M. Fenner fone NOVEMBER 5 1976 MR GEORGE BORG DIRECTOR OF SAFETY RIVERSIDE CEMENT P.O. BOX 832 RIVERSIDE CA 92502 DEAR GEORGE THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ON THE CALIFORNIA STATE THE CALL ASBESTOS REGARDING YOUR MEMBERSHIP REVIEW COMMITTEE ATTACHED IS OUR SUMMATION DOCUMENT TO OSHA IN ANSWER TO THEIR PROPOSAL TO CHANGE THE FEDERAL ASBESTOS REGULATIONS YOU WILL NOTE THERE IS QUITE A SECTION REGARDING SPUTUM CYTOLOGY TC SUM IT UP WE CAN SAY THAT WE ARE OPPOSED TO CYTOLOGY WHEN USED AS A ROUTINE SCREENING TOOL HOWEVER IN THE INTEREST OF FURTHERING RESEARCH WE HAVE EMBARKED UPON A SPUTUM CYTOLOGY PROGRAM AT OUR ASBESTOS LOCATIONS AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF THIS HOUSE PROGRAM WE SHOULD HAVE CONSIDERABLY MORE INFORMATION REGARDING THIS PROCEDURE AND ITS USEFULNESS IN SCREENING PROGRAMS THIS DOCUMENT ALSO CONTAINS OUR ARGUMENTS OPPOSING THE PROPOSED FEDERAL STANDARD OF 0.5 CC I HOPE YOU FIND THIS USEFUL IN YOUR COMMITTER DELIBERATIONS INCIDENTALLY SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I DISCUSSED THESE TWO POINTS WITH DR CLARK COOPER AND I ALSO FURNISHHEIDM WITH A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT GETTING DOWN TO THE NUMBERS OF EMPLOYEES AT LOCATIONS I CAN GIVE AN ESTIMATE AND IN OUR CALIFORNIA PLANTS WE CURRENTLY THIS HAVE HANDLING ASBESTOS OUR ASBESTOS IS ONLY AN ESTIMATE ABOUT 670 PEOPLE AFTER DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF FURNISHING ESTIMATES OF OUR CUSTOMERS EMPLOYEES WHO MAY BE INVOLVED WITH ASBESTOS HANDLING JIM REIS AND I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO SUPPLY THESE FIGURES WITH ANY DEGREE OF ACCURACY YOU WITH A CUSTOMER UNDER SEPARATE COVER JIM IS FURNISHING LISTING FROM THIS YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE A ROUGH ESTIMATE MR GEORGE BORG NOVEMBER 5 1976 PAGE 2 PLEASE KEEP ME POSTED ON YOUR ACTIVITIES STATE COMMITTEE AND WE WILL DO THE SAME WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WITH THE CALIFORNIA REGARDING OUR ACTIVITIES BEST BEST BEST RECARDS W. B. REITZE DIRECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY VICE PRESIDENT MANVILLE AND QUALITY SALES CORPORATION ATTACH -- A. KOTIN IND R.P. R.P. CARTER CARTER R.P. CARTER CARTER