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FILE NAME: Newspaper & Magazine Articles (NMA) DATE: 1970 Apr 13 DOC#: NMA138 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Radio News Transcript - Tough Regulations on Asbestos are Issued RADIO T V REPORTS. INC. CAST 4SNO STREET. KCW YORK, N V 10017. OQ7*8tOO JOHNS-KNVILLE CORPORATION PROGRAM OAnre April 13, 1970 - 3 :00 PM BTATIO N WOR NEW York TOOCa HEGODATICMS COVERING A SB E ST O S SPR A YIN G ARE T ^ S tS D LYLE VAN: Qr. Robert Rickel, new Air Pollution Con trol Ccamissioner of Hen York City, has issued a series of tough new regulations covering the spraying of asbestos at oukstraction sites. He says when a building tinder construc tion is sprayed with asbestos in a congested area, such as i i m h r f j c r : , ?*---- -- -- --- +? <7- - f the indestructible particles. Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital oho have been working on the prcblem say that no patient who has ever 00me down with the disease cause** by asbestos inhala tion has ever re covered. They say death usually w in about two years. Nickels says asbestos poisoning is worse than cigarette nuking. Asbestos is sprayed on the steel skeleton of buildings under construction to protect the steel free damage by heat or fire. Nickels says there are known methods of treating the Bteel besides the use of asbestos , but he says they are eore expensive. He says he will leave it up to the Indus try to solve the prablesu But in the meantime, it will have to pro- viae safeguards while the asbestos is being usee.