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FILE NAME Corning OC DATE 1964 Mar DOC OC065 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Letter from the Threshold Limits Committee March 24 1964 Mr. F. H. Edwards Personnel Administrator Corning Fiberglas Toledo 1 Ohio Corporation Dear Mr. Edwards Ag Chairman of the Threshold Limits Committee of the American Conference of Covernmental Industrial Hygienists I wish to acknowledge receipt in behalf of the Committee of the Kettering Report on Statement and Supporting Documents Concerning the Potential Occupational Hazard of Respiratory Exposure to borne Fibrous Glass in Relation to the Threshold Limit Value Because of its extensive nature the Committee felt it had in- sufficient time to examine its contents prior to its meeting on March 2 3 and consequently would like to take more time to evaluate its contents The Committee did note in passing how- ever that the average air concentration for FIBROUS GLASS with few exceptions throughout the plant operations surveyed in the the report was 1.25 mg a value within recommended by the Committee of 2 ithin tentative limit The Committee will accede to the wishes of the Corning Fiberglas Corporation and remove from its Threshold Limits listing of 1964 the term Fiberglas and regrets the unintended inplication of singling out your corporation in regard to this listing and earnestly hopes that this inadvertence did not result in any hardship or inconvenience to your corporation Sincerely yours cc Dr. Kehoe HESTOKINGEJRo In Behalf of the Committee Herbert E. Stokinger Ph.D. Chairman Threshold Limits Committee