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FILE NAME: Friction Materials Standards Institute (FMS) DATE: 1971 Oct 22 DOC#: FMS012 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Letter to Raybestos President RE Phone Call with The Center for Political Research Letter Stated as "For the Record" October 22, 1971 Dr. E. P. Stef! Ao.Tiinistrat ive Assistant to flaybestos-l'anhattan, Inc. 205 iddle Street Bridgeport, Conn. 06603 President Dear Genej I'a writing this as a matter of record. the phone. I believe I may have mentioned it on On Wednesday September 29, 1971 (4.:00 P.Ji.) | was called by a representative of the Center for Political Research in Washington, D. C. ?Jiss Susan Simon Center for Political Research 1790 U. Street N. Sf. Washington, . C. 20036 She had apparently decided (or had been told) to contact the Friction Materials Standards Institute with the impression that we had material or compounding standards. The basic thrust of her question wass "What are the brake lining manufacturers doing about asbestos in the environment?" I told her we did have a committee studying asbestos in the brake lining industry for (1) general environment emissions, and (2) asbestos in the work place. I mentioned the Environmental Protection Agency's tests to determine the extant of any asbestos emissions in the general environment from the use of brake lining on vehicles, and the proposed regulations of the Illinois Pollution Control 5oard. She brought, up fiber glass as a substitute. I believe she is part of the activist ant i-everytnings, and-while our conversation was polite and restrained, I don't believe., she had ouch technical depth - as suggested by the usual "fiber glass substitu and the apparent pre-judgment that asbestos in brake linings is a serious contaminant from the emission viewpoint in the general environment. The foregoing is strictly a matter of record. S incerely, EeD/icb E. ff. Drislane Executive Secretary I: j PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT