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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1983 Oct 4 DOC NMA179 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Wall Street Journal Article - EPA to Propose in Next Few Months Ban or Phase of Remaining Asbestos Uses 2 a h os J M Manufacturing Company Inc. ic Rocky Mountain Sales Representatives ter Weve OCT 11 1983 Internal Correspondence Date October 6 1983 Fig el Hark J. Jones te Staes A. Verploegh Stockton Surexm = A PIPE W. G Burnett , Stockton ..., File z Chrono The attached article appeared in the Wall Street Journal 10/4/83 As the article states the EPA plans to propose a ban or phase out of asbestos containing products over the next few years The position of M Manufacturing and ACPPA has not changed That is we feel there is no problem with the use of / pipe for the transmission of potable water We feel for the handling of C work environment the recommended work practices pipe are sufficient to create a safe HJJ Attachments er ** wRosan D 002178 JMM - eee 4 EPA to Propose in Next Few MonthsMonths Ban said it didn't know how operations EPA ACTION would affect its mining operations in Cole- rado where its operates a small stos mine Moreover Union Carbide said of Or Phase of Remaining Asbestos Uses 10-4-83 10-4-83 fe & | t B ANDY PASZIOH and PAYMOND A. JOSEPH { Sia Repumers THE WALL STREET JOURNAL JOURNAL } WASHINGTON Environmental Pro- { the material would be too restly in must instances and they wanted voluntary action by industry to reduce public exposure to as- bastos probably won't have much of an effect or us because our kind of asbestos is of hiph purity But the company said its asbestos is used in floor wes and corking matamas usages tha EPA apparently wil bar Raymark Corp Trumbili Conn 256PTIS that its use of asbestos probably wouldn't an ' But Edward Kein director of the office affected immediatelThye company said 115 EPA that is draining the proposals said the | to be a "ow considers 23 estosproven car asbestos is used mainly in Instic ais like car brakes and clutches mater Chogen tha should phased out quickly principle with a package of pro he noted at industry has developed a vari- regulations agains the carety carety of subsitutes beyond any action the Reagan ad- insiders insiders only a few worths ago agency officials said ; Net any such baroni~ baroni~ some based Manville Corp the major products maker said the EPA ar tion probably would have very litle impacto ons ons because the company has been re- long at the best battered by ads of suits from asters asters workers placing asbestos with such berglass materials as B- companies on companies companies on a set in their prodte Mazelle Mazelle Mazelle Mazelle Ned for protection under tap- prodte 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code last arts but companies has decreased 2: the damer year to ward off 3 cusands of lawsults from ous effects of asbestos have beme rows rowsrows rows who claimed injury or death of rel- Scones The U.S. Be of mes said Scones SconSceonses from tests The material can Scones sumption reached a high of 15,01050,000 metric cause cancer and stosis an emphy In related development the Labor Dr partment said his Occupational Safety and Health Adminstrator IP expand work place inspections serving possible molations wilngi- of its exposure mies The safety egency mated 2 willingi- willingi- such inspections to about 100 over the nex year in the struction and manufac industries focusing on demolition sites and facturers with recur^sof Latenus Latenus vi of lations F OSHA said i att inspect demontier sites that have notified the EPA that sivets de , motion or removal will occur Previsty. . current } sera disease that grandly Impairs OSHA inspectors often didn't know abor rein is so EPA metric breathing through starring of the lungs Marilie moce known as the largest as possible beste vilations at suor sites because the work was completed bestos company in the Western world re- quickly The cooperative effort with the tain consten such as cement cently sold its large Canadian asbestos EPA is to last six months | pipes ng materins and or coveringsing coveringsing coveringsing ~ operations that can be as as mineral In Danbury Conn used i. reproof materials In addition the t--- Union Carbide Corp. In the 1970s the government banned cer- tain sprays containing asbestos used for inWTies. STE agency is writing proposed regiations that| on place a cap - the anrum of tests used | for all other products and set up a timetable sulation and decoration of new indicings And the EPA ordered schools to perform safety checks in determine if fibers from as for phasing oat all br a few minor uses over the nem few years bestos insulation posed a health threat in students Recently the EPA has been under In the passetator Reagan administrator appointees at the EPA have argued that there wasn adequate scienc evidence to | warrant tough action agains asbestos They | increasing pressure from lawmakers envi ronmental groups and cancer experts a other federal agencies to crack down on future use of the material also asserted that banning or phasing out- o D 002179