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FILE NAME Special Asbestos SA DATE 1978 Sept 20 DOC SA003 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Minutes and Attendee List - Asbestos Information Assoc Annual Meeting . AA AA ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCIATION HALVELUTUAN AbLsOUUt UkPa Square Suite Jefferson Crystal 1745 Davis Highway 4. Arlington Virginia 22202 e 703 979-1150 509 --' | pages seesee ANNUAL MEETING September 20 1978 Marriott Twin Bridges Hotel Arlington VA The Annual Meeting of the Asbestos Information Association North America was convened at 9:52 AM September 20 1978 in the Marriott Twin Bridges Hotel Arlington Virginia following members were present The . George Barge W.H. Beasley ; Atlas Asbestos Company Cement Asbestos Products Co. Frank M. Brown Robert A. Carlson William C. Clark . Brian Donner , Connell Bros. Co. Ltd. Special Asbestos Co. Asten Limited Inc.. a Vermont Asbestos Group Thomas A. Dougherty CertainTeed Corporation Guy G. Gabrielson Jr. Nicolet Inc. Jean Gaudry Asbestos Corp. Ltd. for P. Carson Clarence A. Herbst Sr H.W. Heunemann for N. E. DeCandia Resinoid Engineering Corp. Congoleum IndustriIe ncs. A. R. Hooker The Flintkote Company Edward Kaufman P.T. Brake Lining Co. Inc. for Alfred Shaines ; J. E. Keith Donald G. Magill John H. Marsh Joseph T. Mooney C. G. Morgan Jr. Rostone Corporation Hollingsworth & Vose Co. Raybestos Inc. Monsey Products Company Continental Products Corp. Adam Novak Huxley Development Corp. Dimitry Poutiatine Richard H. Prigozen for H. S. Prigozen J. L. Rainey John Riopelle H. B. Rhodes Dr. Eng . Sci Manville Corporation Schriber Industries Inc. Amatex Corporation The Bendix Corporation Union Carbide Corporation Richard H. Rosenberg Walter J. Rosenthal Warner Corporation Glasweld International Inc. Kurt Schwarz John Sheridan for J. M. Ciskowski JimSupradur Manufacturing Corp. Walter Research Corp. E. R. Zacharias Molded Materials Company JHM 14052 Page 3 The study Chemical Market Output Analysis of Selected Chemical Substances to Assess Sources of Environmental Contain- ination Task III Asbestos has been completed by Syracuse Research Corp. for EPA The study is not expected to be used as basis for any specific agency action Copies are available on request Miscellaneous - A brief reference was made to recent state initiatives impacting on the asbestos industry Appreciation was expressed to Dr. Rhodes and Messrs Fenner and Carter for their assistance to the Association in this area A written statement by the Executive Director regarding Association activities for the preceding year was distributed copy enclosed . . . Membership Mr. Dougherty said membership in the Association now stands at 37 regular members and 16 associate members A request from the Richard Klinger Company for change in category from asso- to ciate regular was received earlier this month Contributions by nonmembers to NA's work thus far in 1978 totals 5,575 Standards Advisory Committee Report Dr. Rhodes said that the to submit any additional generic cancer proposal comments is October 10. to October 24. committee felt it was not necessary information for the record on OSHA's Deadline for additional written Note Date was subsequently extended Dr. Rhodes commented on the EEH study He that as pre- viously reported the report has major deficiencies The Association's EEH study review group James Heil Edmund Fenner and Dr. Rhodes are pursuing this task consistent with other demands on their time - Dr. Rhodes reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous waste program pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA He said considerable effort had been expended by the Manville Corp. to persuade EPA that asbestos should not be included in the RCRA regulations since it is already covered under National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants NESHAPS It now appears that asbestos will not be regulated under RCRA v | sy, JHM 14054 Page 4 Air Sampling and Analysis Program Dr. Rhodes said this program continues to enjoy outstanding participation Thus far data has been received on 2,414 filters A printout will be distributed which will show each program participant the results of all samples with which that participant was associated Dr. Rhodes observed that the numbers generated by the sampling program showed some variances which were greater than expected Dr. Rhodes reported on response to date regarding attendance at the Second International Colloquium on Dust Measuring Technique and Strategy scheduled for October 11-13 at the Dulles Marriott Hotel Approximately 25 non attendees have FILE NAME Special Asbestos SA DATE 1978 Sept 20 DOC SA003 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Minutes and Attendee List - Asbestos Information Assoc Annual Meeting AA AA J . see ASBESTOS INFORMATION ASSOCPeeIATION rh GS EDT I 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway Crystal Square 4. Suite 509 Arlington Virginia 22202 e 703 979-1150 4 -- ---- -- . ANNUAL MEETING September 20 1978 Marriott Twin Bridges Hotel Arlington VA The Annual Meeting of the Asbestos Information Association North America was convened at 9:52 AM September 20 1978 in the Marriott Twin Bridges Hotel Arlington Virginia The , following members were present George Barge W.H. Beasley . Atlas Asbestos Company Cement Asbestos Products Co. Frank M. Brown Connell Bros. Co. Ltd. Robert A. Carlson William C. Clark > Special Asbestos Co. Inc.. Asten Limited , . Brian Donner Thomas A. Dougherty Guy G. Gabrielson Jr. Jean Gaudry for P. Carson Vermont Asbestos Group : CertainTeed Corporation Nicolet Inc. Asbestos Corp. Ltd. Clarence A. Herbst Sr H.W. Heunemann for N. E. DeCandia Resinoid Engineering Corp. Congoleum IndustriIe ncs. A. R. Hooker The Flintkote Company Edward Kaufman P.T. Brake Lining Co. Inc. for Alfred Shaines ; J. E. Keith Donald G. Magill John H. Marsh Joseph T. Mooney C. G. Morgan Adam Novak Jr. Dimitry Poutiatine Richard H. Prigozen for H. S. Prigozen J. L. Rainey John Riopelle H. B. Rhodes Dr. Eng Richard H. Rosenberg Walter J. Rosenthal Rostone Corporation Hollingsworth & Vose Co. Raybestos Inc. Monsey Products Company Continental Products Corp. Huxley Development Corp. Manville Corporation Schriber Industries Inc. . Sci Amatex Corporation The Bendix Corporation Union Carbide Corporation Warner Corporation Glasweld International Inc. Kurt Schwarz John Sheridan for J. M. Ciskowski Supradur Supradur Manufacturing Corp. Jim Walter Research Corp. E. R. Zacharias Molded Materials Company JHM 14052 Page 3 Chemical Market Output Analysis of Selected The study to Assess Sources of Environmental Contain- Chemical Substances ination Task III Asbestos has been completed by Syracuse Research Corp. for EPA The study is not expected to be used as basis for any specific agency action Copies are available on request - A brief reference was made to recent state Miscellaneous - initiatives impacting on the asbestos industry Appreciation was expressed to Dr. Rhodes and Messrs Fenner and Carter for their assistance to the Association in this area A written statement by the Executive Director regarding Association activities for the preceding year was distributed copy . enclosed . Membership Mr. Dougherty said membership in the Association now stands at 37 regular members and 16 associate members A request from the Richard Klinger Company for change in category from asso- to ciate regular was received earlier this month Contributions by nonmembers to NA's work thus far in 1978 totals 1,575 Standards Advisory Committee Report Dr. Rhodes said that the to submit any additional generic cancer proposal comments is October 10. to October 24. committee felt it was not necessary information for the record on OSHA's Deadline for additional written Note Date was subsequently extended Dr. Rhodes commented on the EEH study He that as pre- viously reported the report has major deficiencies The Association's EEH study review group James Heil Edmund Fenner and Dr. Rhodes are pursuing this task consistent with other demands on their time ' Dr. Rhodes reviewed the Environmental Protection Agency's hazardous waste program pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act RCRA He said considerable effort had been expended by the Manville Corp. to persuade EPA that asbestos should not be included in the RCRA regulations since it is already covered under National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants NESHAPS It now appears that asbestos will not be regulated under RCRA vv oh, JHM 14054 Page 4 Air Sampling and Analysis Program Dr. Rhodes said this program continues to enjoy outstanding participation Thus far data has been received on 2,414 filters A printout will be distributed which will show each program participant the results of all samples with which that participant was associated Dr. Rhodes observed that the numbers generated by the sampling program showed some variances which were greater than expected Dr. Rhodes reported on response to date regarding attendance at the Second International Colloquium on Dust Measuring Technique and Strategy scheduled for October 11-13 at the Dulles Marriott Hotel Approximately 25 non attendees have advised of their plans to be present a Legal Research Committee Mr. Gabrielson said that this committee met September and | reviewed the Medical Art Memorandum prepared by special counsel He said that this document covers the legal issues involved in the presentation of the medical art defense The document incorporates the work of Dr. Enterline in his review of medical literature on asbestos disease The document is now being revised following the committee's review and should be available to members and their trial counsel in the near future Mr. Gabrielson said that the document would be available to members as previously agreed The fee will be 2000 Mr. Gabrielson added that the procedure here would involve a direct billing to the member by Cadwalader Wickersham and Taft while the AIA would receive appropriate follow credit Mr. Gabrielson reported that the cost of maintaining the data bank by special counsel on a monthly basis would be about eee 1500 which is considerably more than the earlier estimate of ee 700 He said the Executive Committee had agreed that no se change in this procedure should be made for six months Medical Consultant's Report aa Dr. Weill reported on the AIA sponsored Plant Physicians ..Conference to be held in New Orleans November 9-10 under the auspices of Tulane's continuing education program The purpose of this conference is to provide physicians whose responsibility it is to perform medical surveillance on asbestos exposed workers with an update on the methodology of health surveillance M red M M e JH 14055 we a OMS mene Page 5 7 encouraging Also covered will be the state of the medical art This will prepare the plant physician to serve as a witness litigation Dr. Weill said during made that official AMA credit would be available to participants Response to date has been - about 30 attendees are expected E et Dr. Weill reviewed the present state of asbestos with literatsu pecrife ic study dealing with reference to the United Kingdom A been published Dr.average exposure and mortality has recently scientific merit Weill noted that this work does have : . ers There will soon be published an British update of a year old study on asbestosis This is the current British asbestos standard is study on which based the . Dr. Weill mentioned sity which is based a further on total study conducted e at McGill Univer- There is a Tulane particulates rather than fibers turing industry University workers study of asbestos manufac- 7 which showed the existence of a level swe ery Dr. Weill referred to HEW September 11 before the Secretary Califano's speech on r CIO National Conference on Occu- pational Safety and Health and related study He confidence that the study would be expressed or further that this was an discredited and stated example of the scientific e scientific peer review problems with the study scientific basis for the He concluded by study study is weak saying that the Technical Committee Report Mr. Fenner said that the major task facing the committee this time is the provision of technical at support for the of an AIA alternative standard for occupational - to asbestos in the exposure construction industry This work is principally in two areas The first is in connection with Page 6 the EEH study of the construction industry as previously reported by Dr. Rhodes The other area pertains to work practices Mr. Fenner noted that the Asbestos Cement Pipe Producers Association has developed and documented work practices for asbestos cement pipe In cooperation with Johns- Manville Research and Development a set of work practices is being said developed and documented for asbestos cement sheet He that work practices will comprise a major part of the AIA construction alternative International Affairs Mr. Marsh outlined a number of ongoing actions of the Asbestos International Association including the work of the Medical Advisory Panel headed by Dr. Murray and the European Economic Commission Advisory Council headed by Mr. Thiele Mr. Marsh commented on AIA efforts to coordinate attendance of industry representatives at major international conferences He referred to upcoming conferences at Dubrovnik Yugoslavia Buenos Aires Argentina and Caracas Venezuela The AIA also provides advisory documents to aid industry in countries where regula- tions on asbestos do not presently exist Mr. Marsh said A probable increase in AIA dues to the international association was explained by Mr. Marsh He said the new dues ; would be about 26,000 per annum Mr. Marsh reviewed the program for the Conference scheduled for October 25-27 Mr. Dougherty had been invited to give conference AIA Second Biennial in London He said a presentation at the Election of Directors In accordance with Article IV Section 4.02 AIA Bylaws the following regular member company representatives were proposed to serve on the Association's board of directors B. J. Iwarsson Abex Corporation J. L. Rainey Amatex Corporation Robert Van Buren American Biltrite Inc. M. P. Carson William C. Clark Asbestos Corporation Asten Limited George Barge | Atlas Asbestos Company John Riopelle Bendix Corporation 7 .. Nicholas Gritzuk Cassiar Asbestos Corp. W. H. Beasley Gordon Coats . - Cement Asbestos Products Calaveras Asbestos Ltd. Co. Thomas A. Dougherty CertainTeed Corporation Be a'rd "% . - | JHM 14057 ee se & Page 7 N. E. DeCandia Frank M. Brown Congoleum Industries Connell Bros. Co. C. G. Morgan A. R. Hooker. John W. Guffy Donald G. Magill Adam Novak Continental Products Corp. The Flintkote Company : . Garlock Inc. Hollingsworth & Vose Co. _ Huxley Development Corp. Joseph Ciskowski Dimitry Poutiatine B. Ramundo Jim Walter Research Corp. Manville Corporation Kentile Floors W. M. Sleeth Siegler Inc. S Masuda Mitsubishi Canada Ltd. Edward R. Zacharias Molded Materials Company Joseph T. Mooney Jr. Monsey Products Company George P. Vogel National Assoc of Filter Mfg William B. Hoffman National Gypsum Company Guy G. Gabrielson Jr. Nicolet Inc. MaHr . s Marh sh - Raybestos Inc. Clarence A. Herbst Sr. Resinoid Engineering Corp. Derek Coomber Richard Klinger Inc. Howard J. Tomlinson Safeguard Automotive Corp. Robert A. Carlson Special Asbestos Co. Inc. Kurt Schwarz Supradur Manufacturing Corp. H. B. Rhodes Dr.Eng Sc Union Carbide Corporation William K. Clark Uvalde Rock Asphalt Co. ' Brian Donner Vermont Asbestos Group i 4 Inc. The list as read by the Secretary was approved by vote without objection . Association Officers Mr. Dougherty said in keeping with AIA Bylaws terms of office for current officers will not expire until September 1979 Miscellaneous In conjunction with the Annual Meeting Mr. John A. McKinney President Manville Corp. was speaker following dinner ' on September 19 and Congressman James G. Martin was speaker following breakfast on September 20. Mr. Dougherty said he wished the record to note the appreciation of the Association for their participation Adjournment There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 11:38 AM Secretary Enclosure November 6 1978 . . 14058