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Page 3301 1 A Well, when we built the technical center 2 back in '59 and '60, we insulated it with our product, 3 the various steam lines and pipes. 4 And at this time --at this time in 1984 5 they were going into an area where we had put 6 insulation on and going to remove it to upgrade the 7 equipment in that area. 8 And to do that they wanted to make sure, 9 before any type of person went in there to remove 10 this, that we found out what was in that material. So 11 we took a sample and, in fact, I took the bulk 12 sampling of the material to the laboratory and the 13 laboratory tested it to make sure that it had asbestos 14 fibers in it. 15 So it was an old material that -- the 16 product had been on the line for quite a number of 17 years at our center, but we were going to remove that 18 because we needed to replace the equipment in that 19 area. 20 After we had this analysis, of course, we 21 brought in our regular --we went out and contracted