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% COLUM BUS, OHIO OFFICE TW ELFTH FLOOR 21 E A S T STATE S T R E E T COLUM BUS, O H IO 43215-4221 614-221-2838 FAX: 614 -2 21 -2 0 07 Robert A. Bilott (513) 357-9638 bilott@taftlaw.com ARLRG_ U+qz TAFT, STETTI N lUS & HOLLISTER LLP 425 WALNUT STREET, SUITE 1800 CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202-3957 513-381-2838 FAX: 5 1 3 -3 8 1-0 2 0 5 www.taftlaw.com May 21,2003 NORTHERN KENTUCKY OFFICE SUITE 340 1717 DIXIE HIG HW A Y C O VIN GTON , K E N TU C K Y 4 10 11 -4 7 04 659-331-2838 513-381-2838 FAX: 513 -3 81 -6 6 13 CLEVELAND, O HIO OFFICE 3500 BP TO W E R 200 PUBLIC SQUARE CLEVELAND, O HIO 44114-2302 216-241-2838 FAX: 216-241-3707 FEDERAL EXPRESS Dr. Charles M. Auer Chemical Control Division Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Mail Code 7405M Washington, DC 20004 TELECOPY Jennifer Seed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 410 M Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20460 Christopher Jones, Esq. Director Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 122 South Front Street Columbus, OH 43215 Thomas V. Skinner Regional Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 77 West Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Oscar Hernandez Director, Risk Assessment Division Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Mail Code 7405M Washington, DC 20460 John Wheeler, Ph.D. (E-29) ATSDR 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30333 om"Oo 0^0 ~ o rn cin T O --i r n 22:<r. "TJ O j r i Donald S. Welsh Regional Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029 JNJ O V0 Re: Human Health Threat Arising From Releases Of PFOA/APFO/C-8 In West Virginia And Ohio____________________________________ CONTAIN NO CB! I May 21, 2003 Page 2 Ladies and Gentlemen: This letter serves as a supplement to our previous letters on the referenced topic dated February 3, 2003 (AR-226-1216), April 4, 2003 (AR-226-1307) and April 11, 2003 (AR-226-1308). Though those letters, we provided information in connection with our concern that there may be a threat to the health of those living in both Ohio and West Virginia whose drinking water is contaminated with C-8 from DuPont's Washington Works Plant in Wood County, West Virginia. Attached to our April 4, 2003, letter were documents relating to DuPont's internal assessment during 1981 of C-8 levels in the blood of its female employees at its Washington Works Plant in Wood County, West Virginia, along with medical conditions of certain children bom to those women. Attached to our February 3,2003, letter was information relating to DuPont's reference in 1987 to an internal "acceptable level" of C-8 in human blood of 0.5 ppm. Attached hereto is a copy of an internal DuPont memorandum referencing the existence of an even lower internal, DuPont "acceptable blood level for female employees" of 0.4 ppm from at least as far back as 1981. (See Exhibit A (EID096478-80))- Very truly yours. Robert A. Bilott RAB/mdm Enclosure cc: R. Edison Hill, Esq. (w/ ends.) Larry A. Winter, Esq. (w/ ends.) Gerald J. Rapien, Esq. (w/ ends.) Mary Dominiak, (USEPA, OPPT) (for inclusion in AR-226) (w/ ends.) (by telecopy and Federal Express) - As a Defendant in a class action lawsuit pending against DuPont in the West Virginia State Court in which we serve as class counsel, and as a Defendant in a prior C-8 case in Federal Court in West Virginia, DuPont has had the right to mark documents produced in such cases as falling under the terms of the Protective Orders in those cases if the documents qualify as "confidential." DuPont did not stamp the copy of the document attached hereto at Exhibit A as "confidential" under the terms of the Protective Orders in either case. l