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INDUSTRIAL, HYGIENE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA. INC. MELLON INSTITUTE. 4400 FIFTH AVENUE Pit t s b u r g h ts. Pa . ..-Lay Mr. D. I> Alien Assistant General Traffic Manager U. 3. Department of the Interior The Alaska Railroad P. O. Box 7-211 Anchorage, Alaska Dear Mr, Allen: This is in reply to your letter of May 23 regarding the reconditioning of railroad tank cars previously used for handling lead tetraethyl so that they could,he, used for trans porting materials that would be used in making cattle feed. I am taking the privilege of forwarding a copy of your letter to Dr. R, A. Kehoe, Kettering Laboratory, College of Medicine, Cincinnati 19, Ohio, He i3 an outstanding authority on the safe handling of lead tetraethyl and can give you a much more authoritative answer to your question than I can. Sincerely yours, Ai A / '' \?vAK H. H, Schrenk, Ph. D. Managing Director HHS: d-s cc: Dr. R. A, Kehoe e-_---------------*