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FILE NAME Allied Signal Bendix ASB DATE 1986 Oct 22 DOC ASB101 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Memo RE Current Litigation Regarding OSHA's 2.2 Fiber Regulation ALLIED Automotive Memora Bendix Frictio Date October 22 1986 To : Distribution From E.L. Rogers Subject : CURRENT LITIGATION REGARDING OSHA'S 0.2 FIBER REGULATION 6869- PLAINTIFF'S 80-631-698 EXHIBIT PENGAD 784 784784 PENGAD 1. On 9/18/86 3M filed a second motion for immediate stay of those portions of the new standard published 6/20/86 which forbid the use of their disposable HEPA type filters at asbestos concentrations up to 10 times the new Permissible Exposure Limit 2 On 10/20/86 AIA filed a motion for immediate stay of the entire regulation because AIA believes that OSHA has not met its obligation of proving that the new rules a are feasible b meet the objectives required by statute and C- did overstate the health risk involved NA's cross examination of EPA's experts lead the plaintiff to believe that the proposals were not scientifically founded that the number of lives to be saved by investing 4,000,000,000 not OSHA's 2,000,000,000 will more likely be 5 not 1000 and that the benefits of drastically reducing the permissible exposure would not be known until the 21st Century due to effect of the already improved working conditions begun in 1973 3 Bob Pigg also learned that EPA had just issued a multimillion dollar contract asbestos fibers with Battelle Memorial Institute to study and asbestos substitutes to determine the relative health effects better late than never In summary AIA is still pushing for controlled use of instead of a ban on asbestos and believes that today's uses do not pose an unreasonable risk to either the workers or the general population ELR 2 E.L. Rogers Distribution R108 EF Bateman EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF EF QEE & & WCK007240