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CABLE PROM LONDON - WESTERN UNION 7-29-1+3 3:20 p.m. DR. ROBERT A. KEHOE SUBJECT OF CLEANING OCEAN TANKERS USED FOR TRANSPORTATION LEADED p.UEL HAS NOW ASSUMED SOME IMPORTANCE. WOULD REFER RISSO-GILL'S LETTER TO YOU ON NOVEMBER 1+ LAST. WE DID NOT RECEIVE COPY YOUR REPLY WHICH UNDERSTAND WAS DATED DECEMBER 15 AND WOULD THEREFORE APPRECIATE YOUR CABLING BRIEFLY YOUR COMMENTS ON POINTS RAISED GILL'S LETTER. EARLY REPLY MUCH APPRECIATED. ' ASSOCIATED ETHYL ms . .... v<r MMv w w w u o vu vvaru 8UXP ^ 13 quite awkward, since in attempting to do this# one is likely to run afoul of other types of regulationsBecause of this fact, we introduced our regulations for tank cleaning in a very simple form so as not to conflict with regulations which had to do with prevention of fires and the avoidance of other hazards with which wre were not primarily concerned. The result was that finally the instructions for tank cleaning issued "by the A. P. I. were completely rewritten to include the additional precautions required to avoid danger from lead. The ideal procedure would be to do the same thing with re ference to the cleaning operations on tank ships; I wonder, therefore, if it would not be possible to find out what regu lations or instructions are in effect on board ships of various distributing companies. With such information at hand, we could fit our requirements into those already existing. To do the thing otherwise would probably mean that our instruc tions would either be ignored or would be resented as unduly burdensome.. This Is not a new idea in connection with tank ships, but the fact is that we have had considerable difficulty in finding out just how cleaning is handled by various fleets. Some of the UK 0010591