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1 Q During the course of your career, Dr.
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2 Fowler, have you, and I am not talking about for
3 lawsuits or consultations with lawyers, have you
4 conducted air samplings with regard to the presence in
5 the air of asbestos from the use of brake materials?
6 A Yes, sir. One occasion, that is about it.
7 Two if you count the one where the guy wasn't using
8 any asbestos in his brakes.
9 Q Were you one of the investigators on a
10 project to determine what kinds of asbestos emissions
11 came from people applying their brakes when they came
12 up the tollbooths on the Bay Bridge in California?
13 A Yes.
14 Q What did that involve?
15
A Well, we were doing
-- this is in '69,'70
16 time period.
17 Q 1969or 1970?
18 A Yes. And it was part of a larger set of
19 projects that we were then doing at Berkeley, and I
20 was doing fieldwork, so I went out to the toll plaza
21 of the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge and made