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Page 2021 1 Is this the OSHA document that was enacted 2 and appeared in the Federal Register in June of 1986? 3 A Yes. This is just the Federal Register 4 publication of the final rule. 5 You go through a rule making process which 6 took a number -- actually a number of years in the 7 process to develop this final rule. 8 Q Now, how did OSHA define asbestos? 9 How was it defined within the document? 10 A Well, asbestos can -- is really a term used 11 to describe a number of minerals that occur naturally 12 that are fibrous and have some commercial value. 13 And it defines asbestos here as, asbestos, 14 tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite. So it is 15 including what we call the amphiboles, which 16 tremolite, anthophyllite, and actinolite were the 17 amphiboles, as well as chrysotile, which is the 18 serpentine. Really two classifications, amphiboles 19 and serpentines, but it defines asbestos that way. 20 Q Now, the document that was issued in 1971, 21 did that reference chrysotile and the amphiboles