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PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT GF-1684 .w- *# Im February I9b9, v provided to the Corporate Personnel Relations Departrwnt proposed "Program for Evaluation of Environmental Health Conditions Throughout Of CorporatIon**. Our proposal called for the Environmental Engineering Department Co make a survey of the Industrial pollutants fdust, nola, radiation, gases, vapors, fumea, and mists) throughout ell of the domestic plants of the Corporation. Ve continue . o favor some such survey. In order that our Corporation's status In these Important areas Is known, especially in tha face of a profusion of new leva, regulation*, and restrictions concerning these environmental factors. Failure to receive a response on our proposal, however, leads us to believe that the need for this program a: tnts time has not been sufficiently demonstrated. Meanwhile, there have been several occurences which *eem to place a new emphasis on the whole subject: 1. A revised Ve1*h-Me aley amendment, covering til of the*e env i remnant * 1 conditions, was put into law on hiay t?. 16*. This rrgulat:on places Federal minimum standards for safety and health on all plaits having government contracts of $10,000 nr more, la all states which do not already have specific lew* covering these conditions. 2. The states of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, XassachuseCt*, kb.ode Island, and California have epeilfic laws regarding nwle which effect conditions In a 1l plants. Ve have ?l plants In these states. ). More states than those listed above have du*t reflations and restrictions. V'e are in (he process of obtaining and cataloging these ntate lavs A. Ve have dust problems of some d**yree at *!1 !5 plants of * Gliding Products division, at the 5 Floor Products i '.vision plaits, and a: 2 of the mines and rill* of the industrial Products Mvt'lon. ^ome regulatory action has been slen a* .jr plants at ha'.rl^re, '<llas, Jt*l let R?) . Mllll*. .outh bound r*ok, Houston, *?'. Vails '".ate. Ann*pul Is, l*hanr.t#n. 'elta, and .Ivde Park. 5. Many states and municipalities. currently without regulations, have restrictions and regulations sending. Tany of which arc modeled closely after the limits imposed Sv t'.e V* I sh --ip s 1 ey eanendotvn: . but effective agaInst all plants In the face of the above we believe chat action must be taken prow.pt iy at those plants where problem cooditlons eat*:. The picture is Improved *onsider*bley by the significant effort that has Seen made a* several of ovr plants tdetermine their own statu* with respect to one or more of these env * ronment a 1 conditions Where there is need and for on# reason or another the plants do not havt the capability, we feel '.Sat the job of determining the patent and seriousness of the problem, in relation : the regulatory re? t r . c : 1 on* . Is directly In our bailiwick Ve have, therefore, taken tne following s:e7** MHCH08679