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ROBERT A. BILOTT
513-357-9638 biJott@taftlaw.com
April 9, 2008
VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL AND REGULAR U.S. MAIL
Charles M. Auer USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rois Building, Mail Code 7401M 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460
M. Cathy Fehrenbacher USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rois Building, Mail Code 7406M 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460
Toni Krasnic USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rios Building, Mail Code 7405M 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460
Lara Werner ATSDR 1650 Arch Street (3HSOO) Philadelphia, PA 19103
Jennifer Seed USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rios Building, Mail Code 7403M 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460
Re: PFOAlC-8 Blood Levels From OhiolWest Virginia Drinking Water Contamination: For Ar-226/0PPT-2003-0012/TSCA 8(e)/IRIS
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Enclosed is information relating to the levels of PFOAlC-8 detected in the blood of tens of thousands of people who used for at least one year drinking water from one or more public and/or private drinking water supplies in West Virginia and/or Ohio contaminated with PFOAlC-8 at or above 0.05 parts per billion. This information was collected through the Health Project implemented under a 2005 settlement of a class
action lawsuit against E.1. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Additional information
relating to this data and health effects reported among those tested (and other information) can be found at the following Web site hosted by West Virginia University: http//www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/cmed/c8/. We understand that additional data will be posted on this Web site in the future.
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We request that USEPA include this information in its AR-226, OPPT-2003-0012, TSCA 8(e), and IRIS dockets and databases for PFONC-8, except any portion that EPA is prohibited by law from including in its public files.
RAB:mdm Enclosure cc: Chris Korleski, OEPA (wI encl.)
Lisa McClung, WVDEP (wI encl.) Gloria Post, NJDEP (wI encl.) John Linc Stine, MDH (wI encl.) Helen Goeden, MDH (wI encl.) James Kelly, MDH (wI encl.)
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