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Taft/ Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP 425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800 /Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-3957 /Tel: 513.381.2838 / Fax: 513.381.0205 / www.taftlaw.com Cincinnati /Columbus /Cleveland /Dayton /Covington /Phoenix Robert A. Bilott 513- 357-9638 bilott@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 Jennifer Seed USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rios Building, Mail Code 7403M 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 Lara Werner ATSDR 1650 Arch Street (3HS00) Philadelphia, PA 19103 Re: PFOA/C-8 Blood Levels From Ohio/West Virginia Drinking Water Contamination: For Ar-226/OPPT-2003-Q012/TSCA 8(e)/IRIS Ladies and Gentlemen: Enclosed is information relating to the levels of PFOA/C-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 PFOA/C-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.l. 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. {W1247252.1} April 9, 2008 Page 2 We request that USEPA include this information in its AR-226, OPPT-2003-0012, TSCA 8(e), and IRIS dockets and databases for PFOA/C-8, except any portion that EPA is prohibited by law from including in its public files. RAB:mdm Enclosure cc: Chris Korleski, OEPA (w/ end.) Lisa McClung, WVDEP (w/ end.) Gloria Post, NJDEP (w/ end.) John Line Stine, MDH (w/ end.) Helen Goeden, MDH (w/ end.) James Kelly, MDH (w/ end.) {W 1 247252.1}