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Vista Chemical Company June 5, 1987 15990 North Barker's Landing Road Post Office Box 19029 Houston, Texas 77224 Phone (713) 531-3200 jf- G>C Greenwood Industries ATTN: Rhonda P.0. Box 40 Hwy. 10 S Greenwood, AR 72936 Dear Rhonda: Enclosed, per your request, are 200 copies (all we have in stock) of the pamphlet titled Facts About Working With PVC. We recently sent 300 copies of this pamphlet to Joe Sanneman, Central Industries. You might check with him to see if he has any extra copies. If I can be of any further help, please let me know. Sincerely, Thomas G. Grumbles, C.I.H. Environmental Quality Manager ajo cc Jim Taylor vvv 000008B32 Vista Chemical Company 15990 North Barker's Landing Road Post Office Box 19029 Houston, Texas 77224 Phone 1713) 531-3200 oo May 29, 1987 Chemical Inventory Section OTS Document Control Officer (TS 790) U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Toxic Substances 401 M Street, SW Washington, DC 20460 VISTACERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED RE: TSCA Inventory Corrections Dear Sirs: In 1978 Conoco Inc. filed chemical substance inventory reports for chemical substances manufactured by Conoco Chemical Company, a division of Conoco Inc., in accordance with Sections 8(a) and (b) of the Toxic Substances Control Act. Certain Conoco Chemical Company facilities were subsequently sold to Vista Chemical Company on July 20, 1984, as evidenced by the attached affidavit. Chemical substances for which Conoco Inc. filed chemical substance inventory reports continue to be manufactured by Vista at former Conoco Chemical Company facilities. Technical information on these products from the period of Conoco manufacture is enclosed. For reasons which will be explained below, Vista requests that the substance definitions located in Appendix A of the TSCA chemical substances inventory be corrected to refine the identify of five substances previously reported by Conoco, now manufactured by Vista. A copy of the original Inventory Reporting forms, corrected Inventory Report forms, and corrected definitions for each of the substances are attached. The corrected Inventory Report forms are signed by a representative of Vista, as the new owner, rather than Conoco. The substances are process streams resulting from the manufacture and distillation of alkylbenzene. These streams are Class 2 inventory substances and are more accurately characterized as consisting of a class or classes of alkylbenzene compounds. The five products for which corrections are requested have been produced by Conoco Chemicals facilities since before 1975, and after 1984 by Vista Chemical facilities. The present TSCA Inventory contains descriptions of these substances in Appendix A which specify boiling point range and do not identify the classes of chemical compounds which characterize the substance. The proposed corrections would replace the boiling point range/process type descriptions with a description of the class or classes of chemical compounds which most accurately characterize the substances. The need for these corrections was established during the preparation of a recently submitted PMN for a similar chemical substance. 000008833 vvv U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Page 2 Hay 29, 1987 In Vista's opinion, the proposed corrections more accurately describe the chemical substances even though the boiling point range has been deleted. Deletion of the boiling point range is based on the following: 1) lack of specification of boiling point methodology in the TSCA Inventory, 2) continual changes in boiling point measurement methodology since 1978, and the 3) lack of need to use boiling point ranges to accurately describe these substances. The chemical identity of these substances, as specified by the corrections, has not changed since 1978. Regardless, we believe that chemical analysis should be regarded as a more definitive description of chemical identity than boiling point range. If there are any questions, please contact me at 713/531-3445. Sincerely, Thomas G. Grumbles, C.I.H. Environmental Quality Manager aj o .1 000008634 STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF HARRIS AFFIDAVIT W.C. Kolar, being first placed under oath, deposes and says: 1. I am W.C. Kolar, Secretary, Vista Chemical Company (Vista). 2. As Secretary of Vista I have personal knowledge regarding the Company's records and affairs. 3. The Corporate Minute Book is maintained by me at 15990 North Barker's Landing Road, Houston, Texas. 4. Vista Chemical Company was incorporated as Disc Holdings, Inc. ("Disc") on October 4, 1983 under the laws of the state of Delaware. 5. The Company's name was changed from Disc to Vista Chemical Company ("Vista") by Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation filed on November 2, 1983. 6. Vista's Restated Certificate of Incorporation was filed with the Secretary of State of Delaware on July 18, 1984. 7. Between the date of Vista's incorporation and July 20, 1984 Vista conducted no business activities other than activities necessary and appropriate to acquire certain assets of Conoco Chemicals Company, a division of Conoco Inc. 8. The Company acquired a portion of the assets of Conoco Chemicals Company, a division of Conoco Inc., through an asset purchase from E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Conoco Inc. on July 20, 1984. 9. The Company acquired all rights, title and interest in and to all products produced by the assets of Conoco Chemicals Company purchased by the Company. VVV 000008835 1 declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct and that this declaration was executed on the 18th day of May, 1987. ' Vta>i W.C. Kolar Secretary Vista Chemical Company SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me, the undersigned authority, by the said W.C. Kolar, known to me to be the Secretary of Vista Chemical Company, on this 18th day of May, 1987. Notary Public LcS'-Jr: C-RA7-15 Notary Public, St;;e nt My Commission Er.oiros July il, 1927 Bonded By Lovett Agency, lawyers Surely Co/Pj 35/WLM13 VVV 000008836 CONOCO NOMENCLATURE DPA-5 LMR-5 N-6-B DPA-6 LMR-6 NOMENCLATURE KEY ORIGINAL INVENTORY FORM NUMBERS 30743900 30743918 30743926 30743579 30744262 VISTA NOMENCLATURE 3050 7050 160 3060 7060 CORRECTED FORM NUMBERS 34424705 34424713 34424671 34424689 34424697 . 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Tustin Suite 100 Santa Ana, CA 92701 (714) 541-8449 International Sales Offices Conoco Chemicals Latin America S.A. 15990 N. Barkers Landing Road P.O. Box 19029 Houston, TX 77224 (713)531-3200 TELEX 794557 Conoco Chemicals Europe, S.A. Conoco Incorporated Rue Joseph Stevens 7 Brussels 1000, Belgium Telephone: (32-2) 513-7490 TELEX 24727 Cable: CONOCHEM, Brussels Conoco Chemicals Far East, Incorporated P.O. Box 110 Kasumigaseki Building (25th Floor) Tokyo,Japan 100 Tel: (81-3) 593-0611 TELEX: J29368 Cable: CONOCHEM Tokyo VVV 000008843 Conoco Chemicals HYDROTROPES Used as solubilizing agents in detergent formulations and as anti-caking agents in spray-dried powder detergents. Product AXS STXS sxs Common Name Ammonium Xylene Sulfonate Sodium Toluene Xylene Sulfonate Sodium Xylene Sulfonate CONOCO CDR FLOW IMPROVER CDR Flow Improver is a unique chemical additive which can be injected into a crude oil or hydrocarbon products pipeline to increase throughput. By reducing turbulance in the flow, CDR directs more energy to moving additional fluid through the line thus resulting in improved system economics. MURIATIC ACID High-purity water white acids; used as analytical reagents, pH control agents, swimming pool chemicals. Product 20 Baume' 22a Baume' % HC1 31.45 35.21 ALUMINUM CHLORIDE LIQUOR CONOCO Aqueous Aluminum Chloride Liquor is 20% AlCIj with clear, straw yellow color. Applications include anti-perspirant production, paper sizing, sewage (phos phate) treatment and preparation of roofing granules. SOLVENTS AND OILS Conoco LPA solvent is a high purity, aliphatic hydrocar bon with very low levels of aromatics and reactive impurities. Conoco OFS oil is a high purity aliphatic hydrocarbon with very low levels of aromatics and reactive impurities. OFS is suitable for use in oil based drilling muds in environmen tally sensitive areas. NORMAL PARAFFINS CONOCO C,2I6 and CUI6 normal paraffins are high purity, linear, saturated paraffin blends. They are generally low odor, low viscosity liquids. CONOCO CATAPAL SB ALUMINA Ultra-high purity pseudo boehmite alumina; used as cata lyst support as well as in non-catalytic applications; may serve as its own binder or be peptized with acids or other peptizing agents; excellent forming properties. Typical Chemical Composition A120, content Loss on Ignition Carbon Si02 Fe20, Na,0 Sulfur Wt.% 71.0 29.0 0.036 0.008 0.005 0.004 <0.01 Property Surface Area* Loose Bulk Density Particle Size Distribution Typical 280mVgm 7I0gm/ titer 55% <45microns 22% < 90microns CONOCO METHYL CHLORIDE High-purity methylating agent used in the production of sil icones, lead alkyls, butyl rubber, quarternary amines, and herbicides. Typical Chemical Composition Methyl Chloride, Wt % Dimenthyl Ether, ppm Water, ppm Acidity, as HCl, ppm Residue, ppm 99.97 5 35 <4 < 50 OLEFINS AND AROMATICS Conoco capitalizes on its integrated position in crude oil, refinery processing and natural gas to produce ethylene from heavy and light feedstock steam cracking facilities. Conoco produces ethylene, propylene, benzene, butadiene and a variety of co-products used as based building blocks by the CPI. These products are used to manufacture deriva tives such as polyethylene, acrylonitrite, SBR, nylon, PVC resins, polystyrene, linear alcohols, glycols, nonionic surfactants, emulsifiers and antifreeze. Ethylene and Co-Products Ethylene Propylene (Chemical Grade) Butadiene Crude C4's Mixed Butylenes Benzene O-Xylene M / P-Xylene Resin Oil Heavy Aromatic Oils Dicyclopentadiene Naphthalene Ethylbenzene Methylacetylene-Allene Concentrate C, Aromatics Isoprene Concentrate Piperylene Concentrate Pyrolysis Gasoline Pyrolysis Tar Blend Ethylene Derivatives Ethylene Oxide Ethylene Glycol Ethylene Dichloride Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) VVV 000008SA4 *After calcination for 3 hours at 900 F.