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:j.nute oi Meeting - Asbestos Study Committee 5- August 17, 1972 E?A AUTOMOTIVE MISSIONS Dr. Spurgeon Indicated that the Bendix Research Laboratories are working under contract for EPA on particulate emissions from brake linings and clutch facings and will not be finished until March 1973. Dr. Spurgeon felt it would not be proper to discuss results and progress to date on this study under contract to the government. THE STATUS OF EPA REGULATIONS Mr. Weaver indicated that one of the reasons for scheduling this meeting in August was to go over the nev EPA regulations. However, this agency has not finalized their regulations as yet and it is not expected to be published until sometime in September. Ilr. Weaver indicated that the problem was not with the asbestos sections, but richer with some of the other materlsls and he expected that their regulations will not be very much different from the esrller temporary regulations on asbestos. Once again, those esrller regulations were more concerned with control practices (collectors and .disposal techniques) -than with numerical emission values. No further action can be taken in this area until the EPA regulations are published. CONSIDERATION OF SUBSTITUTES TOR ASBESTOS / At the Annual Meeting,in June, this Committee was directed to consider a 4r recomendation .that the Institute sponsor a research study to determine the possibilities of substitutes for asbestos. The purpose of this suggestion was that if an outside study were to show that certain materials might very veil be acceptable substitutes for asbestos, the information would be made available to the members. If the* outside study indicated that there were no satisfactory substitutes for asbestos in friction materials, this information could be used as a defense should we hsve a recurrence of action similar to Illinois* banning of asbestos based brake linings. The Committee discussed this and as most of them arc working on asbestos aubstltutea and soma, in particular, have marketed materials without asbestos (primarily aataUd.cs), they felt this suggestion would not be warmly received by many members''. One member indicated that it would be very difficult for than to sanction the Institute making any such study considering the work they have done in the past. Upon motion duly made, seconded, and unanimously passed, it wss RESOLVES: That the Asbestos Study Committee does not recommend an Institute study in the area of siAstltutes forasbestos, WASTE DISPOSAL Someplace between the point where the asbestos product is finished and the waste materials are disposed of, the OSSA requirements will become EPA requireaents. In other words, we are moving from the condition of standards in the work place to standards in the atmosphere or environment. The area of waste disposal is a major problem. All asbestos, bearing wastes, according to the OSHA regulations, must be collected and disposed of In sealed impermeable bags or other closed impermeable containers. Whether a closed steel truck body is considered "impermeable" is a question. If the OSSA people mean what they say