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7%0ducfo and Gb&uea&- tscAMerA plant INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM To: B. A. Primeau Dote: 12 July 1974 From: Re: W. C. Wilde Personnel Monitoring for VCM Levels at Pace Plant Copies: J. T. Barr T. L. Carey R, Fleming F f Tiiiuhii J. D. Kramer A. K. McMillan G. B. H. Speed R. R. Spiegelhalter M. Stermon The personnel monitoring for VCM in June showed lower exposure then the monitoring during the period 22 April to 31 May. In June only 3. 5% of the samples showed over 50 ppm vinyl exposure, versus 8. 3% over 50 ppm for the previous period. ALso, 60. 8% of all samples in June showed less than 10 ppm vinyl exposure, versus 47. 3% for the previous period. The results of the sampling in June are summarized by operating job below: Job Title Number of Samples with Exposure of 0-10 ppm 10-20 ppm 20-30 ppm 30-50 ppm >50 ppm Supervisor Senior ReactorsSolutions Utility Recovery * Finishing' Artisan TOTAL 5 6 10 10 13 9 8 9 To" 1 01 2 00 6 0 2 7 14 6 42 1 10 0 II 1 00 24 7 10 0 2 0 1 l 0 0 _0_ 4 The reactor, solutions, and utility operators continue to have the highest exposures, but the general levels of exposure as well as the number of excursions have come down since last month. At least part of this reduction is due to the change of procedure which has the operators wearing fresh air masks while washing out reactors.' The Sipin pumps still have not been received, and the Sipin representative still is not sure when they will be available. The 20 - 30 minute sampling will be continued using the Bendix pumps and the large carbon tubes. WCWraw &.C frM W. C. 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" i ^ 5 ji z* i &c 1 1-'Q, vc\ '-f w $ 't V *. *a on <t 0' \ A N / N- 5/ \. \ : "n \ 0 \< >, V\ 1s' ) 'f / <v y' Kr c , L~ fe) + \ -- -v, 4 V i* r> O -- * l AP00034887 {I 1 they propose to remedy. 805 2 We therefore request your serious consideration of 3 our comments and suggested changes. 4 5 3 7 3 9 19 I' 11 12 13 14 15 MR. i?L2Z?aI3G o*/1 Doctor? DOCTOS. i^OTJWi My name is Paul Kotin. I am physician, graduated from University of Illinois Medical School, and my specialty is pathology?'! have been a practic ing pathologist and experimental pathologist during all of my career, a career which began with World War II, following which I entered the private practice of medicine in pathology for two years, went to the University of Southern California where I was, for fifteen years, leaving as the Paul Professor of Pathology. > X entered Government service in 1961 as the Scien tific Director for Etiology at -the national.Cancer Institute? 17 t! five years later served as the Founding Director of the Rations.1 Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. X was with Government until 1371, when I left to go to `i'irtpls University ae Dean of the Medical School and Vice President for Health Ssiencs3, and since June 1st of this year I have been Vice President for Health, Safety and Env5.renr.iant of the Johns-Manville Corporation. My entire research career has been devoted to i environmental diseases, especially environmental carcinogenesis, 3 ii IJ AP00034889 806 and when sob with the Government I vrarked both sides of the street; I was a consultant for a. variety of Federal agencies as well as a consultant to private industry. What I would like to do now is give you a report of the results of the screening of the present employees of Air Products and Chemicals Incorporated, who are engaged in the handling of vinyl chloride, and on the results of an examination of death certificates of those VCi-l employees who left the company or died while employed. I was employed as a consultant by Mr. Richard Fleming, Group Vice President# Chemical Group of Air Products and Chemicals, in early February 1D74, for the specific pur pose of establishing and conducting a medical evaluation and surveillance program for employees exposed to vinyl chloride. MR* KLINE: Excuse me, Your Honor. If I could interrupt, our copies don't have the good Doctor's presenta tion. Would you have any extra copies, Doctor? DOCTOR KOTIN: No. Actually, I don't because it | wts rewritten as of last night, incorporating the most recent data from our studies of employees and data from laboratory j tests. It will ba submitted for the record. JUDGE MYATT; All right, Doctor? proceed. DOCTOR KOTIN: As a first step, two physicians were identified in the areas where Air Products has vinyl j \ 1 j i I f. rJ. pi *> * i AP00034890 t 2 a 4 9 6 7 9 9 10 It 12 fW U 15 16 17 10 19 [ V> 21 22 9 i| 607 chloride operations -- Doctor William M. Slaylock, of Paducah, Kentucky, and Doctor 3artleyfBeitelman, of Pensacola, Florida agreed to serve, and in consultation with then, a medical examination protocol was developed and carried out for employees in plants at Calvert City, Kentucky/ under the supervision of Doctor Blaylock, and at Pace/ Florida under the supervision of Doctor Beitelman. Both physicians are certified by the American Board of internal Medicine. Doctor Blaylock is a specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology, and Doctor Beitelman is a member of at large medical group who are specialists in gastro enterology and hepatology. Following several meetings between myself and the two physicians, a screening and review procedure was adopted ? for Air Products' employees at the two plants. Special empha sis was directed toward identifying and specifically testing for the two diseases for which.there were demonstrated associ ations between vinyl chloride exposure and disease -- aco-ost34> lysis and angiosarcoma of the liver. These areas of emphasis were just part of the com plete review of each patient, which included the following: A complete and detailed medical history was taken on each employee. Afterward, a physical examination and a series of laboratory procedures vero performed, as follows: Chest X-ray. AP0003489I 808 Hand X-ray. A battery of laboratory tests which I will name, for the purpose of making a point in a few moments. Blood urea nitrogen. Uric acid. Phosphorous. Calcium. Alkaline phosphatase. Total protein. Albumin. Bilirubin. Cholesterol. Globulin. Glucose. Serum glutamic acid transaminase SGGT. Lactic acid. Dehydrogenase.LOOT. ^ Alphafeta protein. Carcinoambryonic antigen. Complete blood, count with platelets. |And sorum glutamate cyrubic transaminase 3GPT. ; I list this battery of test3f over half of which are 1 specifically directed to the liver, to indicate that it is a bi:'--'xy . Jia required ;n evaluate liver function. No ona & AP00034892 8G 1 not oven this group, is fully informative at all times. 2 Minor differences in the laboratory tests performed 3 in Florida and Kentucky reflected the availability Of labora 4 tory resources. 5 Testing showing abnormal laboratory findings in any e employee were repeated to assure their authenticity. In addi 7 tion to the repetition of the preceding tests, when indicated e the fallowing additional tests were performed on employees 9 not previously having these tests: the two important ones 10 were liver-scans and liver biopsies. 11 The persistence of abnormal laboratory findings, or 12 the presence of signs and symptoms suggesting liver toxicity 13 was followed by a further re-examination of the employee for U the specific purpose of determining the desirability of a IS liver-scan and possible liver biopsy. 1ft At Pace, Florida, 201 employees were tested, and 13 17 employees were found to have test results which varied from 19 established norms. All these 13 employees were retested; 19 four employees had normal results on retest, three employees 20 had persistent minor variations which. In our opinion, did not 21 require further testing at this time. These employees are 32 scheduled for retesting in 90 days to determine their persist 23 ence. 21 Liver-scans vers performed on six of the 13, all of 22 which were normal. One case of acroosteolysis was found AP00034893 J -810 during the examination, am! this employee has been removed ; 1 \ | froia vinyl chloride operations. At Calvert City, Kentucky, 231 employees wars tested, On the iniial tests, we found 97 employees who had findings which varied from recognised norms. Equipment mal function was suspected, and verified, and upon recast, 29 employees shewed persistent abnormalities. These 29 were scheduled for immediate retest. 16 employees showed persistent equivocal variations? as in the case of Pace, Florida, they are scheduled for retest within 90 days. Of the 13 employee* with persistent abnormalities -when retested, six showed findings which directed to more complex and increasingly sensitive and diagnostic tests for liver physiology and anatomic state. The six employees were examined by liver iiopsy, intravenous pyelogran, upper and Iowa:gastrointestinal series, a gallbladder X-ray, a repeat of the chest X-ray, end a com plete physical re-examination. Of the six biopsies, two were diagnosed as cases of Gilbert's disease, a congenital abnormality of enzyme metaboi-! j isra, one case was identified as having chronic gaLlbladder j disease with an anatomically abnormal gallbladder -- an intra-j hepatic gallbladder, a gallbladder buried within the liver, i j and this is what gave us the cold spot on the liver-scan. AP00034894 1 2 3 4 8 8' 7 8 10 SI 12 13 U 15 16 17 13 10 20 21 ! 22 33 I 24 23 811 One ease was diagnosed as having chronic gallbladder disease with coexisting persistent hepatitis. One case shoved chronic persistent hepatitis subse quent to an infectious hepatitis, and one case showed no abnormality I also examined the death certificates of former employees who had been engaged in Ibe manufacture of vinyl chloride and who died either while working for or subsequent to leaving the company. I was unable to identify any relation ship between the causes of death and the exposure to polyvinyl chloride in their work environment. Throughout the entire testing and examination pro grams at both Air Products plants there ware constant discuss ions between the physicians on site and myself; often on a t daily basis. In addition, I have been to both the plants in Florida and Kentucky and personally reviewed records with the local physician. I would conclude at thistime that except for the case of acroosteolysis discovered in an employee in the Florida plant, the results of the screening comprising medical and environmental history. X-ray, physical examination, labors* tory rests -- and where indicated, liver-scan and biopsies -- findings or diagnosis which point to vcm as a positive agent or mechanism were not identified. More specifically, we can state at this time that B. ft i: <; AP00034895 812 I no cases of angiosarcoma have been identified* 2 JUDGE MYATTs Before you start, Mr. Fleming, you 3 have submitted your statement and Mr. Barr's, and an appendix 4 with it which is attached to it? S MR. FLEMING* Yes, sir. JUDGE MYATT: All right. Mister Reporter, for the 7 record, the statement of Air Products v/ill be Exhibit 23-A 8 and the Appendix will be 23-B, and I will ask you to designate 9 in the record, although you do not have a copy, the report of 10 Doctor Kotin as 23-C, and he is to supply ua with a copy of 11 that as quickly aa possible. 12 {The documents referred to were. 13 1 14 marked for identification as ` Exhibits 23--A, 23-B and 23-C, 15 inclusive.) 16 JUDGE MYATTr Mr. 33.ine, proceed. 17 MR. KLINE Before beginning with the actual questior 19 ing, I would ask that, if. you would, you provide in the post- 19 hearing ccranent, the various job classifications In your 20 various plants, the approximate exposure of persons in those 2t job classifications -- that is, what sources do they come 22 near, and whether -- indicate if you could whether it is an 23 intermittent type exposure or a continuing exposure. 24 MR. FLEMING; We will of course provide whatever 25 AP00034896 cm 7/8/74 *3*0* H CLEANING SYSTEM: Olagram o( tha "M-Pyrol Spra'y-S&v^ HI patsntad by OAF Corporation. Tha "M-Pyrof" aatvaat.) tAtor it* economical reoovtry eapabinty, It said ta bt now showing daelng worker contact stifi hazardous posl-pofymer reetduuu aL> VCM Residues Saidfo* With Patented GAF Sdlvei OAF Corporation ha* been issued two paterittVfor po&$&I)rnj of an N-alkyl lactam solvent in polyvinyl chloride reactors^ have significant bearing-on efforts to reduce the potential?! i appu bydZAE tb tha development of, first, a nigh- -effieifipy automated cleaning protect tor . PVC reactors which ettminites the seed lor human entry into the vessels and permits . unique high recoverabUty and reuse of the ' original solvent, 'end, second, a process lodths recovery end purification of vinyl chiiae_g* venting trem PVC reactors. VM-Pyrcl" was originally marketed by theceopway in 19C8 as "the closest thing to * si. solvent for thermoplastics, a- Specifically, inquiries were made VC producer*-seeking interest for and moeV compelling advantag However^r Ur. Benia report* Pyrul" system . among* PVC ms the time early, informal _ and, potential careinog began to.circulateJSWa*Tai that total ,., . ig**--da. It'become: ent er- a highly effective bat generally ictor cleanser. s,'-^ system. _Aio' R#*nie "Berif^ prodwt , for acetylene chemicals-solvents ! developer of the solvent and It* i gea^applicaticha at-the comps' 4 -ocfi engineers expressed little 3 gb&ty in .the method,';.inr* ^ ` 3 ------Jtfi Artisan Industries Inc., | of Vt vancl OAF developed an ad- 1 sy_s_te_m b_a_s_e_d_*_o_n "M.- 1 PyrewU^.coajunction with a modified, ver- ticleWpe^whit# film evaporator. The proc ess (Bvelcped by tha two companies had j the advantage of not only offering PVC en gineers a-complete cleaning system but, in i addition, had a polentially high solvent re- | covy capability. l The high-elflciency cleaning process / eliminated the-nped for human entry into ! reactors while improving the quality of 1 cleiking operations and thereby reducing [ the potential Jot. impurities in, and the - product of, iuhseqvgxifri^iiB mixes.' .j GAP, in JUg-^agaln mads,fifc?oua<U,, i of PVC manufacturers with the new "ays-** tem" but whfle. somewhat more Interest ; wet shewn, ^accordingt.t^Mr^Benii; only"*, pcied irrto'" process urns corner ly and scarce mateffj `-1th two companies agreed to trytho-acwprqco^; j AP00034897 AP00034898 CMR 7/1/74 VCM's Labor and Managenieri^ In Confrontation at Hearings y On `Viable' Industry Standard *^ By RALPH L. CHERRY. OSHA'i proposal that worker exposure WislliglN Editor (without protective equipment)' he limited to undetectable levels <tf vinyl chloride la With jobs of possibly ak many as i.i net feasible. Labor said OSHA'I, proposal million workers at stake as well as the was not strlet enough. V!' . , future of an enUre plastics lndustry;^BemToffi'g4ivriet0eimjp^ha<sWis etojltla*bo^rn'sitvoiedw.sR, uPbebteerr * officials of the Department of Labor worker*, speaking on behalf of the AFL- this week begin sifting-through a masS - CIO said: of research data, medical reports, sta tistical information and recommenda tions for a viable permanent standard: for worker exposure to vinyl chloride ( 'This country survived lor Marly two hundred years without polyvinyl chloride and we cm survive in the future without it lf,,PVC cannot be made and usad safely, the proposed ataodanLmttAt bo..re- contamination. , , , id by an. orderly procedure to phase - Four full days of public hearings oa the .at vinyl.chloride production add.{bid tabissue by the Occupational Safety a Health ,jtitutea for Its products, or to pliue out the Administration (OSHA) last week bwwgW^P"**** management and labor into direct conltou- ** M ***"*" viny., c,,l^r* UlioB over the atringency of the standard .contamination and angiosareom* ti aUQ de- that should be imposed. Industry said thst bated by some scieutlsts, evidence of Its Mutually were offered by Ihe Society of the, cancer-causing potential was strengthened Plastics Industry. further upon reeeipt of a telegram shortly The fdS billion annua! worth of the plaa-- before the hearings began from Dr. Cesare ties industry and the L2 million job figure j Maltonl of Italy reporting further os the ex was contained in an eemomie studywfifae periments he is conducting of the effects of twtortry prepared for SPI by Arthur D. tit- I vinyl chloride contamination oa ruts. tie, Inc., management consultants. -i He advised Assistant Secretary of Labor in connection with establishment of' a ! John Stcnder wbo supervises OSHA that permanent standard, OSHA ia preparing an "the up-to-date results Indicate that VCM economic impact statement which It hopea administered by inhalation produces in rats to complete in about a month. An environ symbal gland carcinoma*, nephroblasto mental impact statement was compk mas, angiosarcomas of liver and other earlier last month and ia being reviewed 1%. sites, akin Carcinomas and probably hepa Industry comments. tomas and neuroblastomas. Anton Vittone, president, of B.F. Good "la mice, VCM produces angiosarcomas rich Chemical Company, And chairman of and angiomas of the liver and of other sites, the SPl's Committee of Vinyl Chloride Mon- pulmonary tumors, mammary carcinomas omer & Polyvinyl Chloride Producers, and skin tumors." warned OSHA that the plastics industry Dr. Daniel F. Boyd, director of the Office could not Uve with the proposed permanent of Standards Development for OSHA. who standard that would reduce permlsslbto announced reeeipt the telegram to .the worker exposure .to vinyl chloride cootami-j peeked hearing, said, "Based upon the Mal nated air from 50 parts per ngiSton to leu' tonl and Industrial Bio-Test Laboratory ex than 1 ppm, plus or minus 60 percent. Ha of periments, and the 19 cases of angiosarco fered a new standard for employee, safety ma found in persons exposed to VCM, oar calling for a stepped reducttori.of permissi preseat judgement is that VCM is a carci ble levels of VCM In the workplace as fob nogenic agent. ,_ itfws: *. OPERATING WITH UNKNOWNS For PVC resin plants - Effective Optfe "In protecting employees from carcino ber 6. 1974. a ceiling of 40 ppnt ef VCM and genic material, we are operating in to area a maximum daily tune weighted average of of many unknowns. For example, we da not 25 ppm. Levels above 40 ppm would require : know the mechanism by which a chemical the use of practical and effective-respiral- ' carcinogen operates or whethera safe level ry protection. One year later the ceili of exposure can be set. However, the prob would drop to 25 ppm with no Ume weightoo lem of employee exposure to carcinogens is average sod on October 5, 1976, it would with us today, and it is our responsibility to stay at 25 ppm with a maximum .time, 1 deal with it as rapidly as possible, based weighted average of 10 ppm. >. > , upon the best available information.'* For VCM plants - Effective October 5, A number of (be chemical manufactur 1974, a ceiling of 25 ppm and h maximam ers were in attendance at the hearings, ei tone weighted average, of 10 ppn^tLerels ther as participaats giving reports on their' above 25 ppm would require the utilization knowledge of the chemical's hazardous of practical and effective respiratory pro properties or as observers. The industry's tection. One year later the ceiling would principle arguments that the government drop to 10 ppm and a maximum 'time act with reason and not destroy an industry weighted average of 5 ppm and' levels whose products have a value of $65 billion Continued on Page 16 CMR 7/1/74 - VCMHearings ^ Continued from P*gt 38 ' ' above 10 ppm woiiQ require use-of practi cal end effective respiratory protection. i*f. VXtKS **M that the Jnchirtry'i com mitment to the proposed iiJ*ZZiC??^ be aecempUibed overnight state, incertain areas, life jteehnology for acceanpUahtaf it l, at yeL -not developed and, when devel oped, laemtlet mutt be Installed wdnlrlng time for eagineering. procmenHhtJiuui In- slsllsUoa. Ji'") tie empbarlacd that the-Industry cm- mlttee It unanimous in its position that OSHA-s proposed permanent'.tuadu-d of "ao detectable lever* Is aot tecbnologicaUy feasible and, If adopted; would shut down the Industry. ,k t Jerome,*H. Heckman, Sera . genarfl counsel, emphasized that ang^fli dgrdthdopted by the (ovenm* into glanced account the iv" e(nun; public and employee health i socialrbad economic impscl other ptbUe interest factors. ,, Hedebased that Congress provUePlia the Occupationaljs($ts Beam Act, aad that the courts "' ognfesd, that the secretary ofJ k.establishing protective itahdirdi, coo-' - aider the "feasibility" of meeting them, tfe mid the term "feasibility'' eacompasses teebmbficil and economic eonsideratkms as well as health.' 'Liver Cancer Victims* * Lived NearPVC Plants *1 ' T*o "downwind cases" of angiosarcoma of tbe liver have been tentatively identified ia Cednecticut after review of the possible cean&CioB of vinyl chloride gss to record cance^'deaths hi the state. A story ta the Connecticut StnU last Friday Ufcne 3 quctad(<source# at National institute ol Occupational Safety A Health as saying thatenvironment near two PVC fabrication plants in Connecticut was "highly suspect ed" i a factor in the twocases of livercan cer. This briefs te four the total number of angiosarcoma deaths In the state that have been pofenected t* PVC facilities. ' The^aidt cases, according to the Cea> acetic?! newspaper, involved a woman who hv^d srlthis a hall a mite of a Rota ft Rob ert* Company plant in Bridgeport. Earlier in June, two PVC workers in the state, one from each of tbe same two planIs. were Identified a* accounting fer soother two of the registered angiosarcoma deaths. There are a total of sis such deaths recorded in Che state cancer registry. The two remaining cases have not yet been con nected to causative factors. ' Tbe Heraid quoted NIOSfl iwnd as saying "there is no other yowlUrMpliiMtim Jar these cases of angiosarcomatSfCept for residue in the neighborhood of tnese'two plants." Tbe scarce was said to base his . comment on s report on the latestidentified ; victims submitted by the National. Cancer Institute. t .^ AP00034899 i .* VCM LEAK DETECTION PROGRAM OBJECTIVE - To eliminate VCM leaks throughout the PVC unit. PRESENT PROGRAM - Supplementing the fixed monitors installations is an area type inspection conducted by two lab men using both the Bacharach and the Century detectors. This inspection is done two or three times per week with results of the inspection being tabulated and reported. PROPOSED PROGRAM - Continuous search and inspection program conducted by maintenance shift mechanics. Detected leaks to be repaired immediately by the mechanic or reported for service determined by equipment availability. TIMING AND IMPLEMENTATION - An experienced mechanic familiar with the PVC plant operation and equipment will be selected and made familiar with proper use of the Bacharach portable detection, equipment. Inspection of VCM handling equipment and piping can be started immediately on the day shift. An inspection guide sheet covering the system from the unloading area to storage and all outside operating area distribution can be prepared. Inspection inside operating buildings will be conducted on an area basis with tracing to source when concentrations are detected. A written record will be made of all leaks detected and type of repair made to develop a history to aid in determining re-curring type leakage. The day shift inspection will be expanded to round-the-clock seven day per week coverage as additional mechanics become AP00034900 V VCM Leak Detection Program -2- available. Complete shift coverage can be expected within two weeks. Inspection and monitoring of all operating areas would then be conducted on a minimum once per shift basis. A log book or record of each shift's activities would be maintained. Particular attention would be given to areas such as the reactor floor where flanges are broken or manways opened as a part of the operating requirements. Continual review of shift records will be required to determine areas of higher leak frequencies so that inspections can be oriented toward early detection. This record should also provide information on type of leaks experienced and lead to improvement of materials and equipment. As experience is developed with the inspection program, it may be possible to reduce the inspection frequency and the personnel involved. AP00034901 )Q s 'f - fr7 selc.cl c'c.y..- for mem taring kon lh' iv r.. r.i"Oj. .-orkrih:.fti are cjor - atir.ir. `Ihe hygicr.i?ts will also bo locking at specifici.itcnts suck as perco-j^nel protective measures and cart being taker. in the handling of collected samples. . < ,t Seventeen svr.tes or terri^ov'^s now have OSHA-a-tvoroved job r.ciety ?.ro health plans in operation, They arc Ala^ha, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Iowa,- . Kentucky, Maryland, Iviinnesota, Neva-da, North Carolina, Oregon, South Caro lina, .Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, 'Washington, and the Virgin Islands. Sight states have approved plans that are not yet operational. These arc Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin. While plans- of 21 other states and territories are under review, four states-Georgia, Nov.- Hampshire, North Dakota, and Pennsylvania--have withdrawn plans. Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and the Trust Terri tories of the Pacific have submitted no plans. Several of the 25 states with OSKA-ipprov_ed plans have elected to leave certain issues to OSHA jurisdiction, which is'pcsSvfsrsiblo under the Act. OSHA has total jurisdiction in states with out anprouesgtrrog rams and is required to monitor and evaluate all approved state progrOS1IA Program Directive 74-11, issued a few weeks ago, spec ifies that JT'oelurral enforcement authority can be reinstated if semiannual reports reveal that aciual operations were uor.c:< effective as the Federal program. r|: "Some f0 'n e c l* v:.1 r.f c flat 1 n: ` > i.? r* v, .:fu v.!1: tier OSH A ir.voiv c tir.l V 5 pc rcov.1; ef the stand nrd s i su.ni u r ; he jr.-.v, " r-: ttu Assi.-vvi. riv fai'icn: ta ry of Laiitjr .1 nr.:. 1 i. Si,-nth ' `F if: col: s: a nt, ;> :*a s nr Lhlc fi'y i `.tore th:i..1 4 0 perce r.l of all siur it-us \ 11 i i.1c.-, " !; o ltd is she C > u emu y,mifovy Conforor.ee held recurs ;ly in Mije-.e.'Ut .lif. , S I e id*.'V sU:m suits ; t". . . ii***v ;: nearly thru eloi1 inc rcasc it: in- ft)):.- I'iiwi.'- Y O : i i> 11 nv; in citati onu from j ; y > y i11 throur:h Dvcui; h;-:: r 1973, the s'.'ixi of C-mi-m tCf! Cii on hit*: drop :ed fro: n : ,. m 11; : "i 7 l n <i.ppfoXtiViil t: 1*./ r> po i`Or!;.. Siri :.y per C i: n t. Oi* those are y oUi out w ithev-. : roi.:ii; to the iiCA'icV.- Com : vs i b r.1 o: t. j\rit ?.v. v:-m i: AP00034902 s-No Hazard,EP\Says^ After atmospheric tests at vinyl hazard'to. people HvS? near tbeeesjiants. samplinjrtf this site indicated thaf^tbia chloride .-plant sites Environmental - HoweVeE.prudatTce'difeates thflJjBWfcpable k" Protection Agency has -decided ^vinyl step's. Should be promptly talma'to reduce chloride .emissions are not ^ serious vinyj chloride emisltens to the loWWT prtctical level.' hialfc'd; .hut matplarii hp^ttinK proce- Mr. Train requested that each company drifar should be tightened`thyway. begjn.or,. eontku^monitoring AffMlf1'""* Meeting with senior executives of the from its plants In order to provide more ex twenty-nine companies which manufacture tensive information on the quantities of vinyl chloride and vinyl chloride resin last vinytrchlorlde enl^nAhe envnrji*ttt. Tuesday (June 12), EPA Administrator EPA-will support**SdiBonal monitoring'In Russell E: Train said: J -- cooperation wlth.state and local govern "There is-no scientific evidence to indi ment* * . w /*- e%. cate that then emissions pose an imminent He Iso recommended that-rnanufavtur- level.was. unusual, according to EPA* Mr Trsitj,Jtres"d the preliminary-ns- ture or EPK's findings while expressing confidence, that they will be verified- by later testb. `Ottljr i limited number of samples were tslcetv A each facility under varying meteoralogntaf and- temperature .conditions. "Mr. Train said. "While we are reasonably confident that our monitoring efforts, were sound, it is difficult to gereralize about am bient ooribUicna from our samples. ^dAo^here were many oportunities for error In the individual measurements made ers consider. Jong-teS modifications to VCJ-processes .pros r^s^n. addition. to other, steps t# imps ^operating procedurerfhat shdifld'hei-a--k--e-h iirftnediateiy. Mr. Train said a number of vinyl chlo ride manufacturers have already reported substantial efforts to reduce emissions*** in this pioneering effort. It is clear that con siderable additional work is required be fore we have an accurate picture of the vinyl chloride levels in the ambient air." EPA also monitored water effluents and found typical levels there at two id three ppm, in one instance at 20 ppm. Vinyl chlo ride entrapped in sludge and other solid 4'< / well as monitoring activities, and he ssid the companies io. general haveJanured lj epa of their desire tb co-operate fuuy with the agency. Preliminary monitoring results, Mr. Train noted, show levels in the ambient air near the plants fluctuate sharply. Appar ently, this it due to (he periodic openings of polyvinyl chloride reactor kettles, acciden tal plant discharges, variations in re duction process and meteorological condi tions. While almost all of the sampleeo]leeted contained detectable levels of vinyl chlo ride, more than 99 percent of thVtamplet showed mounts less thsn one pari^hrmil- Ron. Mr. Train said. t At several of the chemical complexes tested, however, a number of individual sir samples showed more (hen one ppnrvinyl chloride. A one-time high of S3 ppm.was ob tained at Louisville. Ky,. although repeated wastes from the reactor kettles ranged from 100 to (In one ease) 3,000 ppm. No evi dence indicated that vinyl chloride is pres ent in detectable levels in drinking water. EPA says. "At .the present time," Mr. Trsin notes, "there Is no basis (or considering that the levels of vinyl chloride detected in water discharges or in sludge, if handled proper ly, are* hazardous to human health or to' aquatic life." Participants in the vinyl chloride contro versy reacted to EFA's findings in predict able manner last week. _ Dr. Sidney Wolfe, head of Ralph Nadar's Health Research Qroup in Washington called them "enraging to see." The Nwder group, with labor allies, has been pashing for zera-dectable levels of VCM in thowork place environment contending that there ia rio known-level of safe exposure to the sus pected carcinogen. Dr. Wolfe said the objections to-atmos pheric VCM Inside manufacturing plants extend 4o environmental VCM outside them. Ob a twenty:four hous basis the expo sure of the community lo a given level of VCM_would be treble that of an eigbt hour worker, he said. EPA is trying to "take the edge off the urge" to do something about environmental VCM< Dr. Wolfe charged. The agency Is "admitting there are significant levels-of VCM'in.ttbb environment. This, is ridicu lous: certainly there is an imminent dan ger."- Dr. Wolfe said. ' A Manufacturing Chemists Association, spokesman on the other hand, sald.thd EPA report M good news. The data with respect to communities surrounding vinyl chloride plant* sites are encouraging, he said, and last week's meeting "was very beneftcal for all-parties concerned" VI.think EPA put the right emphasis on the matter."' hg said. Lika EPA^he cau tioned that the environmental testMAtonb' preliminary. 4 AP00034903 ** to THE WAUL STREET JOURNAL, Tucdny, Juno Debniing Health Vs. Jobs Plastics Industry Mobilises to Thwart 17. f Tough Rules on Handling Vinyl Chloride j By U'AtTfH blnSSbUlG JtliBtry, e trada gionp, averted Unit sti'H- `t.'r.les* a ceawnaW* .[5Kv!i Si'^. 3ift n'wtr.s e/Tnr ii'. trocar j.jvh:.m. ^lent teei-no'icey doesn't exist, to meet Uteltaltcn,'' ".rota Fun* yrfrr-.-ehi J:.. rr.-rv WASHINGTOy -- A* the federal pmwrfi-i propejed stindiuvl w.d warned tiiac u.uctvo{|ctettl t ulaiUo-plpe-cxtrurs- firm In tlur.jj ment wove.i closer to odoreinc il.inxcntlLh.1 vinyl nrct polyvinyl ehiuiido l-riiMtryiiiin "K eouM mean Ui< r-t n?nv]' controls over handling of the ut> T>ntooi is-lmlcht have to time U thi> un<ljl jrwe lntoJnU '-'iirw.e* neh a* uw u'.-cro xtly dnatrlal chemlcfii vinyl ehler.'U, u'rmufue-icffccc. The society predicted time tal eillUonjhKcx fnviNlml our Ufa savL-.n." j.. lurera wiw utc tt aco moi>llisf.'3 to try to] Jobs i;rt "at leant l WCton" in rile* ;uid[ 7.. r.'-^sa. fh'iir.v.t.n c-t fcitvor D,.. ic'l show that ilia control* would prove cconotul-1 pioductUia could be lost. line.. % C.-.i-rri-n'-v ri,l:.r r-i`C wtiv'ev. rally dlanrtroiui. Tho rules would ba utterly the eempanio.i any, and industry an eraeiitial mnnufaeturtujr M.u.uiit. 111-........- -------- 1 ------------ --- --- ;,-ro.-T. jtoy v.:.rtg ] <U ,< rr.-_:. -.u>.)r ,,, coacecieoriie. tlicy add, mahers ol plurVvPS-.ht fer.lrol that Itfva Lce.i d-veinped b>'lmll'l..;i ws.tli 'i busies,.... er.l tmylsv ov,e. nlpo, auto pxrl*, phonoeraph records andfhe bil--T iwt tea yc?H. tt On proposed,*^ j.r .pm." 7E tlto new nit.-* nr* linreiej.i many nvn'e product* would ba Olvctt to *1**1* `"ili'tojUite-lisver t-wtaaed 1* ed-ytovl. a* aW. "vaU to hat:* to ,1 onr-rnnn .Vad-' wall. And. they contend, thouauuU of Job* l'* v'n>'1 cWotSda anil polyvinyl chloride nCjlf o-.vnil*:'.!." would vanish. lieaiA preditrLij Industrie* v.lll Iw foreed to I c-.o Sum. OrMtem Trl. 1 I'.-cd'icfi Thl* plcumv plclura la nicely Uj tWmi.iatcr,"*e ?6'f1 `"^lately." whicti ' iU'". ntnntle trim i- suv.".m! V't; Libnr u-y.-.rtii'tnt hoartn/r*. ticsinnin?|Tho nnd Health View unto w..-vatned that llu nfr Kll.n today, m plv.r.cd atindnnls tor cUniuatluy| A non l.cr nl '.a'jor-union and oeeupa'.lnn co>iM cut "U ttv aupj'ly 'if pVC re...ne. .'tit-1, IPs exfissiL-o c: plaatlea-imlualr;/ vnrircra lojal-healtlt enpai'a ul'c expected to dijytlt* tho in- ill pisil;,uiiu3 r.iulCMUtas U in t'rk l.- the ollciT!>ea cancer. K>pO'i been linked rnro Hi woTbtr* countilMl ......... -- --------- --------- - - . - - ,......... .......------------------------- ------- , -..........- aulted. Tit sflt-tJon, an?lp*arroa:n la* rs-iurs' fv"rm?l "eontmonu'' r.rv the planned P ;0* cenllv been Unmed lor tho de.v.h of tv.-ojrulee, sire an lndlcailon of the probable ' otonod X'li^usa : l .-lii'1! and |1 *.4 l<e:t`t* v. emptoyea In L`.S. pAant* hantllu,,: polyvInTlj'.onB of Uii* weei'A heortnr*. AithU Jll StO-tt 1 :.\ri:n ;!. rOJUtt of a ** !;. h 'rrta'f. cMoritl-;. tiie pmvJorod dcrlvli>u ,i i-tnyl-|:U"M eon.io-U that tame c-'ntvob ms In f'wl. Ill iny Ot Itto i't.'c.l r.'n'r vl.vi cltlotirte y.ta iiiat 13 labrlcatci! Wo a walolni'cned on vinyl eliluridc, fr.oit ixsilond that L*,a* VT t,:! ' """T'..* ranee of ni.l/.m induct*. (Two n'htc dcathatthn p.opo-" j uiCf tm-e.1 wild ihmh itaiiilael il'soltitciy "-"<' iry from aiijiainroinm havo been ui.covered les* llu.d ilt-i roll.ipM at tir ti'dViliy. ilory o' '. . -kUw u-ta. ' ' ernon* peorle uvv.yf trv Iho vtetrity "l ,'ier.l* Alr.io-.: .ill l:-4 letlrri enai# from uirrj of| ffor the rec.-i I (n>latry !' Uiir; 'lolii'iryi ct.loifde.) polyvitill iliWtvle, dr rvc. irrt r.ot eomri.i-'rlvtct `1 ,.t Va pin itlc ! vfrj It : ri;-*i- In April, tiu! L*tior Department's ecci- rdsa dlreetl' T.andttn* vnlyyieiitwkfeUMieoViri^lH- ii'\ tlcconl* luc. j.iie.-ded H't ' pvitlon.il Bcfety and health ndritn'.-...'.i.'i.l.i.u.i.iboaa .tn..v..t..l.n.? -it Int--o P..V..C.....I.n...v--at ecr.)she la.!-"r . f-ime.,l l,'Vc , cc;4ic.. n te I pjarnl 0 lcr.:por*ry smareency -.^mlaruiiiioy o-'.iUln ftu their acppvter* ot i'VCi"ouc -'W.'lry ivomd lie fvrte. "ue .{ it-:iiullla< -..xil'.-i 1 cxroii\'rimn to vir.v`.'':'.-~itlsItiive bAA (ln.'in ti'.n itafidardo w".:l mike It nc**.M pan to JO 5>.i'M per nilllloa In l.':o -I' triyl`r.U!cni.lv lev lb MM to oei'Ui.ns prouilrhiet Tin >''.">^'1 AsiotnM. 1 ef l-oioe breathe, n r;iu } reduction fiom ili nro-ittie raw p' -r freed 10 write to tr.e r. v!ou limit of ICO pait-v Now. the aerify U|einmenh i.m M'C uacri lave done ns, (e-| f pi.ipoitr.i--inj ivltnojoci at this iu-e!:'s:cacUnf Wrir nwu.eiil min. ` ~-- hi-iruijr; v.lll Jo'eale--a j'.endarrt ruttln : expocuro rmtuinmlly to "no itetcctabla" Cincinnati `Bell Findst.ivrl ivt ail. AtUuni:..: hie ptiAtlcj Industry epnosed iho eni'M'Kcney r'i`in.7. It* voles lui *0 tir li.',-- iv.'r.it.T tti.iit litnt Of- or-nnjjml labor v.Viicui ei- -'iillllc Users Pick Self-Help Over . \dded F.xpr.nsc Doom fur t!. fnrinatry? _ .liiftrr l.i -,r' l-> ORfUO lilt -xMlrtrr:,,ijV oaura plan'C7m:IiI *i,rll < f jVi'At'l' 'all Siiys 2f)-Cfnt I'cn I'-'r Diccftovy A'.ii;!.nicc 1 : 'ill Irr I1; 5 VJTU 'laic,I plant.1 ti ;t siril T f:i - Cut luqiiiripo 71^?*.! '".I ihloo..- - - iir turn it tr.to y-v.yvtayl 1 r.i-.rl.lo iv.- rcitn. rmf 1,1-.t ct -o bin.\if. d n iv.U-vinj! .1 Tb 1 ;!.v I-i-j - . prcd-ilt*. CiU' 11- ;".} -1.. - I -..'-.ul.t tcouli e cpsrmien.1 in i m '.aiictlon ,{ -. i.yI . `"I*5rr t,- r . i ' v c'utfeo r,-.:-..her of l;rr y nsslE- '.to and .-"iorld-;, cutch -.-- "iy-; m - 11 rMtin.-t-.ni i-,' -i ivorltora, bo r j ' 4 liirtut, t. < -. .-rr.lrnf, \ erdu . -i:;ei.li-oriiiy . '.'i ho Lsr.:..-;tcil in* ventUattrn do.ik. 1 or! lb 11 s.ro. ` .her iii-.tio-i . t.i .uMttlan, mi;" t.^i.> ,, [l.-- ' plants yolyvlnyt InloJC-. I. frr-i iho rkftiTi m Irv4- rTn 1 r:y.j lord| :..a ciIU n dry, Clr.oinc.vt '-' jr.l ..i-r 'r.i'.A ./Than 'IV'n.'mm <; V. . .i" ru'l In Ct:;. Itn.iM. V70lr-t. v:i;.-"i n.-e pa Id to ci..pty -.* tol ryuC" J, ittbwr.Be-i i-.im Vc ?' ?.'j-hJ . .'-i-.:.! us mihj-e; -11-> iwi-|.i|.,W;r- ./ > !< tor e.-i-n '.itfon--'.'-.n cu `; I M.niUl'1'L r - i;cn|; irlc* if ti... 1 r;iT-: ..ns on. I r : I list" ailev."-.-: . ;'iiciTvr.>--. - i.V.'s. P.l.t-1 1,-rv! a,-' -`.r*.:v e: I > .-l lt , . , 'wxli'c i-; rr-.;, ;i- rrifi.i Irr.jn.t r. i.-'.i.'i-C.; lj -! -.: . V...-1 < icflrte-fv. i-bl.y. : > -..ir.-u *. * j*:rSciy M LIn )'! *!'('? In **i,,iv* l. *! v r....... . i:? x:,\r*r*Y i-;-,-.-: ' ;-!t 4V- if r;;..irr!..r/| -zf. i c*ti-rv charr;.'. a in I rosvuei-t: U. AP00034904 I rij r_;J ti:a ali>lirc!i coviU rfrivo tha rising J p-'.l rJe vlav of the J-mgstn ol ilcnm from com ii( lv%c:."S tv'i Myhtr by forcing vSisyi chloride. Jatnesc n. Cr:ns. of Crane bullsk:* lo eb.rrdvt eaenc.iilc.n H-B hou*A tCi.-itcs Inc., In cSslitin'ius, Ohio. wrote, lug `c.iyinc.HJ. I', warned ll.at such a tic- "V.'e rrnlititin to be ftrtnt'Ci'td with llto com- vcri"' "l could l-'-eri "ru.-ciy rrcd<'( hot-*' i of ilia number of if-r.illn s.i.ia.iljy Ir-K v.-vuVl 1) Iteyori Ui* i-'ill of an ;:i-j ! ndiictc prontp'cd by lu:* of Jolw. ver- cneistn^iy l.-rge aeghi'nt ef tha public." i U5 lit; 10 nrgi-j.-'n onto ifcutlia wovlil*wtd< Jic-.'.en Co.'s plasties ncd yn'.ltelles divi over lit year* of l'\12 r:o.'-JCtioa." sion. 'hie!) makes tublrjr medical ui--s, | wi-rr J that If the new t,i!i i curbed supplies 1 of I'VC. Jo-pcrn :ely rseckd ' .ilpmetit mini in kl.litey dblysia rod hr, j.i- ;-ry mlfl-.t lieicna mtivaHable. aim <J:v v lieviur Co. of Grscjiovillr. S.C.. t nui'vr f.ra.roliM'ir.'. tent* .-nil tent Material. lined pvc: 1 ;i,,inos*. importune component" in in producis. tVitjfs mom, Arthur Cu^criton, a f"of Ida r-iitka executive. f C.-rald iCersler. an nfi-vcr of an Ohio piscde* company, urjccd modification of the piopoted str.n- dardi im Hi# yrctintlx lint they lliom;aI',c had li.vl tongr par. Bill expesur* to vinyl chirr.it without ill eif-tcta. Mb'* of tha letter t.tiIcm aeknctriedced the need to protect workers from ilia poultilliij* cf liver cihccr. But mey ur;i delay lit li.iposlns tueli Inreh re.trctiorj, both to (rtvr >' ienLnLi time for Cuilhrr research and) to iL.im- die buxinesre* ce pita -a In tfrn.netv cunyls, 3;-.:t otto writer tu6k a decidedly lets tym- . I** Ijook . Obfe . v^/siy* :ine. % *- cv . AP00034905 , ri A Oo THE WAI-L STREET JOURNAL. -- TLundir. Jun. 13. 1974 Provident Fund Says Funding Is Set to Telecast EPA Air Samplings A Series of U.S. History Don't Show Hazards Co-, Rh American General Unit Is Its New Manager By a U'aU. STREET JoCKXAL Stuff Rtportir WASHINGTON - The National En dowment for the Humanities and New York City's public television station WNET announced more than $5 million From Vinyl Chloride By a Wail Street Jor*Jf*L Staff Btrortir r, / er sccoa By o ITali. Street Journal Slatf Reporter PHILADELPHIA - Provident Fund for Income Inc. announced completion of the take-over by Chaining Management Corp., in funding lor production of a 13-week dramatisation called "Tho Adams Chronicles 1750-1500." The series will trace historical Inci dents In the life of one family, that of WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Shari Protection Agency said air sampling In bull areas surrounding vinyl ehlorids and poly In vinyl chloride manufacturing plants didn't a subsidiary of American General Insurance Presidents John Adams and John turn up hazardous levels of the two corn Co., as its new Investment adviser following Quincy Adams, over a span of 150 denial by n federal district court judge of a years. It will be produced by tVNET preliminary injunction sought by two fund and telecast nationally over tho Public shareholders who opposed the take-over. Broadcasting Service during the 1975-78 At Provident's annual meeting last week, shareholders approved turning over managreement of the mutual fund to Chinning season as part of the nation's bicen tennial celebration. The organizations said the s< million and elected seven new directors, all with Channlng, and reelected five directors, A suit filed May 30 by Richard M. Sornera Jr. and William Penn Management Corp., both shareholder* of Provident Fund, charged tiuit proxy material mailed in connection with the annual meeting was in grants made by NEK to WNET in clude 31 million outright and |3 million In gifts-and.malching grants. The An drew W. Mellon Foundation already has provided 3750,000 toward the matching grants nnd Is expected to provide an other {750,000 next year, they said. misleading in that it failed to set out certain facts that might Influence holders deciding how to vote on tho change lit Investment ad In addition, WNET announced a sep arate grant of 31.3 million directly to the station from Atlantic Richfield Co. visers. Provident said Judge Joseph L. for the project. McGIynn Jr. ruled Monday that the proxy material fairly described the proposed transaction. Cyclops Unit Raises Tits suit had originally sought to enjoin the annual meeting, but the plaintiffs agreed Some Prices 5% to 17%not to oppose the meeting after Provident pounds in the atmosphere. However, a reading taken 0.3 mile from Iho B. F. Goodrich Co. plant In Louisville, Ky.. showed 33 parte per million of polyvlayl chloride compared with th* SO parts considered dangerous to health. And EPA Administrator Russell Train requested that all 29 companies (hat make vinyl chloride resins take "reasonable steps" to reduce emissions of the compound to the "lowest practical level." Vinyl chlorides have been found to cause a rare and frequently fatal form of liver cancer among workers in factories produc ing the resin compounds. Tho EPA is considering establishing an atmospheric ceiling for vinyl chloride emissions. In additionto its own sampling program, the EPA is asking the manufacturers to continue or start their own monitoring programs and also to pro vide technical and economic Information for use in Its standard-setting deliberations. The EPA sampling, conducted at varying distances from a dozes vinyl chloride and *" j agreed it wouldn't take any action on that polyvinyl chloride plants around the coun matter until after the court hearing. Provident also said that as a result of the Judge's decision, it sold the business and as By a Wall Strut Jovrxal Staff Reporter try, turned up atmospheric levels of less than one part per million in 95% of the read Pittsburgh -- Cyclops Corp. said Us ings. * sets of Provident Management Corp., its Universal'Cyciops specialty-steel division The cause of tho exceptionally high read previous investment adviser, to Channlng raised prices 3% to 17Ci on high-tempera ings, which also occurred to lesser extents Management and the business and assets of ture alloys in bar and forging billet forms, outside plants in Louisians and California, Pennsylvania Funds Corp., the principal re and it added that it plans to increase prices isn't known. EPA air pollution officials be tailer of tho fund, to Channlng Co., principal on sheet and strip forma of high-tempera- lieve such readings could result from the underwriter of the Channlng funds and also lure alloys "at an early date." opening of a process kettle, inadvertent a subsidiary of American General Insur The company said the Increases follow polyvinyl chloride venting, meteorological ance. patterns set by competitor*. conditions or a combination of these factors.. r V I AP00034906 Labor Dopt. Proves ToSpoed Issuance i 8 The Department of Labor has de cided to dispense with normal proce dures of first obtaining objections to proposed regulations and requests for hearings, and move directly to the hearing stage on (he proposed perma nent vinyl chloride occupational safely regulations to speed the settlement oi :thc issues involved and issuance of the regulations in final form. In an amendment to its May 10 an 'regardnouncement of a proposed rulemaking with to a permanent standard for occu pational exposure to vinyl chloride. the de partment announced that hearings will he held on (he standard June 25 in Ihe Dcpaitmental Auditorium. Washington, D.C. '* starting at 9:30 a.m. ' Persons wishing to participate in the hearing are requited to notify Ms. Joanne Coodcll. Attn: Docket OSH-36, Occupation al Safety and Health Administration. I72S M. Street, NW. Hoom 200. US Department of Labor, Washington. D.C. ZQZSO. no later than June ]?. (n addition to the practical, the notice should contain a general statement of the position to be taken with respect (o eoypro; vision of the proposed standard, and of the evidence to be adduced in aupport of the po sition. Last week. Manufacturing Chemists As sociation issued a detailed chronological re port on'its activities concerning occupation"at health aspects of vinyl chloride, in preliminary disclosures of MCA's ac tivities given exclusively to this publication the week before (CMR, .V27/74, pg. t), the Labor Dept Moves. Continued from Page T association assailed implications that it had withhold pertinent Information on the carci nogenicity of VCM for more than a year. Among the more recent actions taken by MCA. according (o the chronology, was the issuance of a press release announcing pre liminary indications that VCM exposure produced liver cancer in mice at several exposure levels, down to fifty parts per mil lion. The findings were the result of studies conducted by Industrial Bio-Test Laborato ries. which was commissioned by the asso ciation In February 1973 to conduct animal exposure tests with VCM. The experiments entailed animal Inhalation tests that would expose rats, mice and hamsters to vinyl chloride concentrations of 2.500. 200 and fifty ppm for one year, with animals to be kept on observation for an additional year. In addition to this test. MCA says that (our supplementary research projects on VCM proposed by the group are now in near prospect. These projects include: Rat metabolism study - Rat fetus study Animat chronic exposure study at lev els below fifty ppm * Animal acute exposure study to test po tential effects from passible single massive release causing extremely high VCM at mospheric concentration!. AP00034907