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*'r Kori:^ FROM W. I). Ki.nsel 1, Jr GLIDDEN-DURKEE DIVISION OP S CM CORPORATION Fo m IJ6 Ptiimo in U.i.A *171 DATE March ?A, 1972 FOR ..dty Cleveland .ANSWERING LETTER'; OF SUBJECT COATINGS AND RESINS GROUP POLICY , --Chicago Lead Law i Vi. *1 Everyone shoo'd he ware that the city of Chicago has recently passed lead in U-r paint legi;;a f'cn which Wmita lea l content!; in certain coatings to .067. as 'of July 1 , 1 ' )!?. Chicago must bav- All interior cur tings stocked and sold within the city- of.,' > 4 \ d '-"tents at or below .067,. Exterior products with lead/f;'jty , - content in c:< ot .f)6L rt-qui re special. labeling which con be. achieved 1 through the -ipp 1 i cn U on or .j sticker for the period of July 1 , 1972 to' `.. . January 1, 19,"S lor the purpose of clearing residual field stocks. As of January 1, 197J, exterior coatings in esc-ern of ,065 lead must contain proper ' ' ' warning sfrt ''im-iits cm fne I'.*.!or> and instruction panels and printed on the label. To comply with the Chicago legislation, the following policy has been adopted officially by the Ce>R Croup: 1. All shipments Into Chicago of Glidden Y-line materia Is under the labels of Spred Lustre and sprod Gloss are to be stepped immedi ately to both dealers and other classes of trade. Private brand customers serviced through the tins tern Private brands Department and Midwest Private brands Department should immediately be notified that such products under private label should cease to be delivered to stores in Chicago. 2. The present law, as published for Chicago, does not stipulate a recall for returned goods ruling between manufacturer and dealer. It is our intent to furnish appropriate stickers to dealers for the interim period, from July 1 to January 1. If, however, any indication conies forth indicating that we, as a manufacturer, should accept the. return of stocks, or if any private brand customers so stipulate, returns are to bn. accepted and credited against sales in the fourth quarter fiscal 1972 and no later. <1 ; , 'S* P* , . I r'** * 3. A number of our key painter-maintenance items - solvents, flats, eggshells and Semi-Gloss - at present, do not comply with the published Chicago regulation. The research center is working on substitute formulas with alternate drier systems. We must have substitute formulas in production as of July 1 on selected key volume items where turnover of inventory is sufficiently fast enough to provide us a reasonable margin of safety for package stability. GLD012 579 , ' '' 'Jr* ' ; . - .;v' 'v,1 G'oi7.r*v.?--'. i .* COATINGS AND RESTNS GROUP POLICY --Chicago Lend Law March 24* 4. In addition to the Chicago legislation, the Food and Drug Administration has published a Federal regulation requiring .57,. hrlHs for all a Lead content as products, January oT 1, January 1, 1973 and .067, lead content,' 1976. It will be our objective to seek .. t;..'. !'{}V.`TV* {hi.1 " compliance with the .067. level on as many interior and exterior . V.VtMfeJ products as possible by January 1, 1973. Priorities on product 1 * . reformulations will be provided to the research center. At " ; ^0 present, we do not comply at .06% on any of bur house paints " , latex as well as solvent. In effect, we will discontinue the marketing of house paints in the city of Chicago as of January!, ' . '' iVAS 1973 until we have formulas which comply. It will be the responsi- bility of the research center to adjust house paint fomulastto* comply wi th .067, during the next 12 months to permit us to supplyv-'.'v,-' j the Chicago liouse paint market in the summer of 1973. Hie same1;.. course of action will apply for private brand lines of house paint; products being offered lor sale In the Chicago market. _ mp Distribution Hr. 71. B. 9impson Mr. I. J. Foote v'Dr. II. J. Kiefer Mr.,G. L. Bechtel Mr. E, B. Euchncr Mr. s; T. Bowel 1 Mr. J. D. Bussell Mr. J. S. Dumb1e Mr. H. M. Werner Mr. R. G. Anderson Mr. D. W, Eugene. Mr. W. J. Bennis Mr. J. K. Stalker Mr. W. G. Wickham ) Hr. P. J. Connor ) Mr. W. Parker ) Mr. H. F. Winger ) Mr. H. D. Coulton ) Mr, A. A. Aungst ) Chicago, fil7 Reading V?2 ,/ / W. D. <yfSLL, -JR / / ij GLD012580