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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration WASHINGTON, D.C. 20210 at"''?/, / V s- INFORMAL FACT-FINDING HEARING ON POSSIBLE HAZARDS OF VINYL CHLORIDE MANUFACTURE AND USE Schedule of Appearances Friday, Feb. 15, 1974 Pre-hearing Conference-9:30 a.m. Hearing - 10:00 a.m. Conference Room E - Departmental Auditorium Administrative Law Judge Hearing Management Officer Office of Standards Office of the Stlicitor Gordon J. Myatt Joanne Goodell, Jeanne Ferr John O'Neill, Ching-tsen Bi Evelvn Gholston APPEARANCE Exhibits E. Gholston, Office of the- Solicitor of Labor 1 2a-g Mr. John O'Neill, Chief, Division of Health Standards OSHA Mr. Vernon E. Rose, Acting Assistant Institute Director for Research and Standards Development, NIOSH 3 Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, Director Environmental Sciences Laboratory MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 4 Mr. Anthony Mazzocchi, Legislative Director OIL, CHEMICAL AND ATOMIC WORKERS INTERNATIONAL 5 Profi' Cesare Maltoni INSTITITUTO DI 0NC0L0GIA, Bologna, Italy 6 Cphotos will be s in March) Mr. A. C. Clark, Vice President - Technical Director MANUFACTURING CHEMISTS ASSOCIATION 7 Mr. Anton Vittone, President Dr. Maurice M. Johnson, Medical Director 9 BOR 011557 Page 2 APPEARANCE Exhibits 7. Dr. Roger Strassburg, Director of Environmental Affairs Dr. L. B. Crider, Senior Scientist Mr. Harold J. Fast, Corporate Counsel and Assistant Secretary B. F. GOODRICH 8. Mr. Richard J. Reynolds, Manager Vinyl Chloride SHELL CHEMICAL COMPANY 10 9. Mr. Sheldon Samuels, Director .u. Health, Safety and Environmental Affairs INDUSTRIAL UNION DEPARTMENT, AFL-CIO Dr. Henry Anderson MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Dr. Thomas F. Mancuso 11 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH Mr. Louis Beliczky, Director of Industrial Hvgiene UNITED RUBBER, CORK, LINOLEUM AND PLASTIC WORKERS 12 13 12(a) Rudolph J. Jaeger, Ph.D. Department of Physiology Kresge Center for Environmental Health HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH- 14 10. Dr. V. K. Rowe Toxicologist DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY 15a-c 11. Mr. Herbert K. Carver, Jr. Design Engineer DOVE PACKAGING SYSTEMS DIVISION/FRANKLIN ELECTRIC 16 12. Mrr--Wayne T. Brooks^JDjjte-ct-er"" (Deleted per his requc OccupatioS^t'-Safetyland Health Services -GReWrCTATION RESOURCES COUNSEtO-RS 13. DcJrnrir4-4ialjiian, Indtistrial-Hy-Err-errlst (Made no presentation but .(^NT^etrTOTA^COR^RAT^N^__ submitted data as Exh. 8) 14. )_erts Brookman, Manager- (Deleted per his request) Researc .onment IRST0 15. Andrea Hricko and Bertram R. Cottine (Made no presentation) Staff Associates HEALTH RESEARCH GROUP oH&68 BOB- 1 4- April "4, 1974 MEMORANDUM ' U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Otticb or AoMiNiiTiiATiVE Law Judges WASHINGTON, D.C. 20210 To: Honorable John H. Stender Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Subject: .. Certification of Record In the Matter of the Fact-Finding Hearing Pursuant to a Request for Information on the Possible Hazards Associated With the Manufacture and/or Use of Vinyl Chloride On February 15, 1974, I presided at the subject hearing in Washington, D. C., pursua./- to the Notice of Fact-Finding Hearing published in the Federal Register on January 30, 1974. (Federal Register Voi. 39, No. 21) ; I hereby respectfully certify to you for consideration an4 review the record of the proceedings consisting of: 1. One volume of the stenographic record, certified by the official reporter, consisting of 194 pages. The table of contents lists the appearances of each witness and enu merates the exhibits and statements introduced at the hearing. 2. Exhibits 1 through 16 received in evidence during the course of hearing herein. 3. Exhibits 17 through 3Q-A received pursuant to my direction to keep the record open until March 8, 1974, for the receipt of post-hearing comments and documents. In addition. Exhibit 6-A through 6-C received after the close of hearing as supplementary material to Exhibit 6. 4. Order dated April 4, 1974, marking and identifying Exhibits 6-A through 6-C and Exhibits 17 through 31-A as submissions made after the close of the hearing and receiving the same into evidence in the record. The transcript and the exhibits enumerated above are in the possession of the Office of Standards and will be transmitted by that Office upon receipt of a copy of this certification. Gordon J. Myatt Administrative Law Judge Enclosures BOR 011559 O" fI- v) * * x* t.* U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Office of Administrative Law Judges WASHINGTON, D.C. 20210 In the Matter of REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MANUFACTURE AND/OR USE OF VINYL CHLORIDE ORDER RECEIVING EXHIBITS AND CLOSING RECORD At the close of the hearing in the above-captiored matter on February 15, 1974, the undersigned Administrative Law Judge ordered the record to be held open until the close of business or. March 8, 1974, for receipt of written comments, arguments and statements. The documents and comments received are hereby listed, identified and designated in this proceeding; as follows: Exhibit 17: Comment of Wayne T. Brooks, Director, Occupational Safety & Health Services, Organization Resources Counselors, Washington, D. C. Exhibit 18: Comment of H. Grady Gatlin, Director of Operations, Air Transport Association, Washington, D.C. Exhibit 19: Comment of Roger W. Strassburg, Ph.d, B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio Exhibit 20: Letter and attachments of R. J. Reynolds, Manager - Vinyl Choloride, Shell Chemical Company, Houston, Texas Exhibit 21: Comment of R. E.'Widing, Vice President, Industrial Chemical Division, PPG Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Exhibit 22: Comment of Elliott S. Harris, Ph.d, Dept. ofHealth, Education and Welfare, Center for Disease Control, Cincinnati, Ohio Exhibit 23: Joint Comment of Bertram R. Cottine and Andrea M. Hricko, Health Research Group, Washington, D.C. Exhibit 24: Comment of Walter B. Connolloy, Jr., Assistant Counsel, Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio BOR 011560