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Phone (419) 535-3100 U.S. Unit Defends Vinyl Chloride Curbs, C;ai Saying They Aren't Too Hard on Firms A 1 Wi By a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter try of trying to whip up a "hysterical" pub WASHINGTON -- A Labor Department report disputed the plastics industry's claim that a proposed government standard for re lic relations campaign predicting the de mise of the industry, and he said the AFLCIO will call for a congressional investiga Ev- CH. said i stricting handling of vinyl chloride would tion of the industry's public relations effort. length force numerous plastics plants to close. The Industry also proposed its own stan the co The industry has contended that the pro dards for handling vinyl chloride. Instead of U.S. 5 posed ruling, which would bar exposing workers to any '`detectable" amount of the chemical, can't feasibly be met. and the in dustry warns that adoption of the ruling would close down the large part of the plas tics industry that uses vinyl chloride and its derivatives as raw materials. But the government report says flatly that evidence to date doesn't indicate "that promulgation of the proposed standard will stop vinyl chloride production and use." The report, a draft version of an environ mental impact study on the proposed strict vinyl chloride standard, was made public barring any "detectable exposure," it urged gradually decreasing exposure ceilings, starting with 40 parts per million this year in polyvinyl chloride plants to be decreased to 25 parts in late 1976. In plants handling, raw vinyl chloride, the industry plan calls for a 25-parts-per-million ceiling this year, decreasing to 10 parts per million by 1977. In both kinds of plants, ac tual average exposure over an eight-hour day would be less than the full celling, due to differing emissions of the chemical at dif ferent times of day. Th< which or ab< are b< three Ne terms Carbo ductic value millio riod. 1 a $4.5 yesterday at the start of a week of hearings There also was evidence at the hearings, annur on the standard. The hearings are expected however, that even average exposures agree to be dominated by plastics-industry spokes below a 10-parts-per-million level can cause which men questioning the scientific research on disease. Dr. Irving Sellkoff, noted occupa mine vinyl chloride and warning of economic dis ruption if the standard is issued. Vinyl chloride, a gas, is thought to be re sponsible for 21 world-wide cases of a rare and fatal liver cancer, angiosarcoma. Tens of thousands of U.S. workers are directly and indirectly exposed to the chemical daily because it is the base product from which tional health researcher, reported he has found noncancerous liver diseases among workers at a Dow Chemical Co, plant in Michigan where levels of average exposure last year were generally below 10 parts. He cautioned, however, that it wasn't known whether the diseases were contracted before or after exposure was dramatically lowered U. cally' ity, ri torici used rentl> ton companies make polyvinyl chloride, a pow by Dow in the early 1960s. He dery substance used to form a multitude of tract Mapco Sees Net Risingeveryday plastic products. In April, the Labor Department cut of st< on t! workers' allowable exposure to vinyl chlor undei ide to 50 parts per million in the air they In 2nd, 3rd Quarters breathe. The proposed rule being debated at Ci ies f the hearings would slash that further, bar users ring any "detectable exposure." By a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter ment The study concedes that "production in CHICAGO--Robert E. Thomas, chairman woul< some plants could be curtailed if reengi of Mapco Inc., estimated sharply increased those neering is required," and it predicts "mar earnings for the second and third quarters C: ginal" companies may need federal loans to compared with a year before. its r help pay for improvements. But it says Speaking to the oil group of the Invest prod' equipment needed to meet the standard ment Analysts Society of Chicago, he said two ) doesn't necessarily need to be elaborate, Mapco should earn $6.3 million to $6.S mil and much progress can be made by improv lion for the second quarter, compared with ing "poor housekeeping and inadequate $3.1 million a year before. Per-share net maintenance." It concludes that "the tech should be 34 cents to 36 cents, compared nology appears to be readily available," and with 17 cents, he added. thus "substantial development costs" won't Revenue should rise to $54 million to $55 be needed. The contradictory industry which warns of economic chaos, position, was at million, compared with before, he said. $33.8 million a year tacked at the hearings by the AFL-CIO as Third quarter earnings should be about "blackmail." Peter Bommarito, president the same as those predicted for the second of the United Rubber Workers union, said, quarter, he said. In 1973's third quarter, the "This country1 survived for nearly two company earned $2.2 million, or 12 cents a hundred years without polyvinyl chloride share. O and we can survive in the future without it." The improved results for the historically But he also disputed industry contentions low second and third quarters are largely a that the standard would end polyvinyl chlor result of increasing oil and coal production. ide output, saying older plants can be al "This increased output is new evidence of => tered, and in new plants the task of meeting Mapco's emergence as a total energy com DDthe standard is a problem "characterized by pany which is no longer dependent on sea the will, not the ability, to do the job." sonal demand for some of its products," he Mr. Bommarito also accused the indus i said. i ABUin aneuiuA <*ai e I BFG03463