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.` SBK ''-*'* *?*a*'-' _ <4 ^' '-'i*: ' ' ' ^ M5F3ST.?^*,<-/ V-.'r ' V*" , "f. tfii" %' r. ~ appr, < % .* '. . , f '- : ' - ~iriiTitutffMfe-iVn' ~ -1 -gt-,ijr 1" ~r-*~- *v--~ -*-- - 'i-r- . ..-- ' * * m2K TO PEi3 1, 6 end 18 r ..n.^ --*<- LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, INC SSS MAOItOH AVINVI NtW route H. Y. OOI? nwKM - h u sees mi MniU7 2, 19^5 To All Meabers of the Lead Industrie* Association, Ino.t Ai Lead tod Air Pollution - Public Lav 86-206, 86th Congress Ths passage of this lav represented the first effort of the 0. 8. Congress to legislate la ea effective ntnaer against air pollution. The question which concern* ua here aad which vaa covered la the lav la air pollution fro* autoaotlve vehicles. This ns covered la the following section aad ve here quote. *0oe Tear after enactaent of this section, aad seal-anauallr thereafter, the Secretary* (of the Department of health, Education aad Welfare), "shall report to the v: Cocgrtss on neasures taken toward the resolution of the vehicle exhaust pollution problea aad efforts to laprove fuels.........." This portion of ths Act vas Implemented by the astahllshseat of an advlsorr ccsdttee, nov called the Quigley Ccsaalttee, since Its Chalrcan Is Jaaes M. Quigley, Assistant Secretary of HB*, which art aad discussed the prohlea sad prepared the report. The report entitled "Autcaotlve Air Pollution" has nov been sent to Congress. Vs thought you would be Interested In a section of thle report since it could have been damaging to lead, aad aloes it fortunately turned out to be a rather favcr- : '^1 ***** sucnatloo fixes our polot of rlev. The following, taken frees page lb of this W report, is the complete eectloo 00 lead. i "Lead Effects on guaaas Kecent review uA study of the concentrations of lead missions frxs auto sxhaust as a source of coeou&lty atmospheric pollution suggest that thsre has been little change In the atmoepherlo lead concentration over the past tea years. Since atnoepherlc concentrations aay vary significantly fren year to year because of source r factors and neteorologlcal conditions, principally the latter. It Is not pose lb Is to establish treads on the Halted amount of atmospheric sir too Itor lag dsta available. It caa be desocstrated however that lead concentrations of blood aad urine saaples show the effects of sovlrooaent. lata co lead concentrations In blood end urine saaples of hucAna la ths general population indicate these to be la the range presently defined ss "normal".* When one considers that this Is ths federal Government report on the ccntrlbutlca of lead to the autcootlve exhaust prOblea ve feel that the statement le very good. Obvlcuely If there had been any daaaglng facte available to thle cocclttee they would have been recorded. The foregoing quotation shove that this situation Is not too bad fron our point of view. There Is no other mention of load *A# la ths satire report. This Is for your Information. Vtry truly yours, 1 Director of Bealth sad Safety v . iT^pyAuutUMwu*-.w m~ ,a..iy,j .. .n .1 nuyi w| j.1 ..u