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/\R^G _ M O NORTHERN KENTUCKY OFFICE SUITE 340 1717 01X16 HIGHWAY COVINGTON. KENTUCKY 41011-470* 00-331-2838 513-381-2838 FAX 513-381-8813 Robert a . Bilott (513) 357-9638 biloft@taftlaw.com TAFT, STETTINIUS & HOLLISTER LLP 1800 FIRSTAR TOWER 425 WALNUT STREET CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202-3957 513-381-2838 FAX. 513-381-0205 www.taftlaw.coni April 12, 2002 TELECOPY AND REGULAR U.S. MAIL CLEVELANO OHIO OFFICE 3500 BP TOWER 200 PUBLIC SQUARE CLEVELANO. OHIO 44114-2302 216-241-2838 FAX 216-241-3707 COLUMBUS. OHIO OFFICE 21 EAST STATE STREET COLUMBUS. OHIO 43215-4221 614-221-2838 F A X 6 1 4-221-2007 ISO u> c_ X ** n O frj cn --"u(.pcnn 3 ZX 2o no Chris Negley, Esq. West Virginia Department Of Environmental Protection Office O f Legal Services 1356 Hansford Street Charleston, WV 25301 Pam Nixon Environmental Advocate West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection 1356 Hansford Street Charleston, WV 25301 James Becker, M.D. Marshall University Center for Rural and Environmental Health 1600 Medical Center Drive Suite 1500 Huntington, WV 25701 William Toomey Manager of Source Water Assessment Program West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health 815 Quarrier Street, Suite 418 Charleston, WV 25301 Dr. Dee Ann Staats West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection 1356 Hansford Street Charleston, WV 25301 Jan R. Taylor, Ph.D. National institute for Chemical Studies 2300 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E. Charleston, WV 25304 Joan Dollarhide, Ph.D. Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment 1757 Chase Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45223 Barbara Taylor Director, Office of Environmental Health Services West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources - Bureau for Public Health 8 15 Quarrier Street. Suite 418 Charleston, WV 25301 000002 LE 1752 April 12,2002 Page 2 Jennifer Seed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 410 M Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20460 Samuel Rotenberg, Ph.D. (3WC11) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029 Roger Reinhart U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029 John Wheeler, Ph.D. (E-29) ATSDR 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. Atlanta, GA 30333 Janet E. Sharke, Esq. (3EC0O) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IH Office Of Enforcement, Compliance and Environmental Justice 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029 Garth Connor U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029 John Cicmanec, DVM U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 26 West Martin Luther King Drive Cincinnati, OH 45220 Laura Werner (3HS00) ATSDR U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III 1650 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19103-2029 Re: C-8 Assessment Of Toxicity Team Work Under November 14, 2001 Consent Order Between DuPont And State Of West Virginia (Order No. GRW-2001-0191 000003 Ladies and Gentlemen: On March 6, 2001, we notified USEPA, WVDHHR, and WVDEP that our law firm had received over 100,000 pages of documents from E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") in connection with ammonium perfluorooctanoate (a/k/a "C-8") and offered to make those documents available to the agencies (subject to the requirements of our protective order with DuPont). We did not receive a response from the agencies. Over a year later, on March 26. 2002, after receiving approximately 60,000 to 70,000 more pages of C-8 documents from DuPont, we again notified USEPA and WVDEP (along with Ohio EPA) that we possessed a substantial amount of data relating to the toxicity and effects of C-8, and again offered to make that documentation available to the agencies. In our letter, we notified the agencies that many of the documents, although potentially relevant to the CAT Team efforts under the referenced Consent Decree, may not otherwise be available to the non-DuPont CAT Team members. We April 12,2002 Page 3 also requested any opportunity to designate a representative who already had reviewed all of this information to serve as additional member of the CAT Team, given the apparently short amount of time left for the CAT Team to complete its work on C-8. As of today's date, we have not received a formal response from any of the agencies. We have, therefore, enclosed a copy of our submission to USEPA's IRIS Submission Desk concerning C-8 to alert the non-DuPont CAT Team members of the type of information that is available on C-8. Thank you. RAB/mdm Enclosures Robert A. Bilott 000004 LE 1754