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FILE NAME: Allied Signal Bendix (ASB) DATE: 1986 Oct 22 DOC#: ASB101 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE Current Litigation Regarding OSHA1 2.2 Fiber/cc Regulation LUED Automotive Memora Bendix Fricta Troy, New Yo Date: October 22, 1986 To: Distribution From. E Rogers S ub lect: CURRENT LITI6ATI0N REGARDING OSHA'S 0.2 FIBER/CC REGULATION 1 PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT 1 "7 6 4 - 1 1. On 9/18/86, 3M file d a second motion for immediate stay of those portions of the new standard (published 6/20/86) which forbid the use of their disposable (non-HEPA) type filt e r s at asbestos concentrations up to 10 times the new Permissible Exposure Limit. 2 . On 10/20/86, AIA/NA file d a motion for immediate stay of entire regulation because AIA/NA believes that 0SHA has not it s 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 AIA/NA s cross examination of EPA's "experts" lead the p la in tiff to believe that the _proposals were not sc ie n tific a lly founded, of ^1ves t0 be saved by investing $4,000,000,000 (not 0SHA s $2,000,000,000) w ill more lik e ly be 5 (not 1000) and that the benefits of d ra stic a lly 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 d ollar contract with Battelle Memorial Institute to study asbestos fibers and "asbestos substitutes" to determine the relative health effects (better late than never!). In sunmary, AIA/NA is s t i l l 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:yj Distribution: ID-R108 J.N. Bateman C.M. Brunhofer J. Charm M. Cupicha J.S. Fountain C. Larson E.L. Rogers T.L. Lazarcheff K. Macon R . 'Michaud A. Schuttenhelm H.A. Scott S . W. Scott WCK007240