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October 114,1936 Dr. Graham Edgar Ethyl Gasoilns Corporation Chrysler Buildin g Hew York City Hew York . Dear Graham1 ' I am sending you herewith a copy of ay reply to Mr. E. P* Earl and whose in quiry you referred to me in your le t t e r of September 28th . . I or igin ally thought of poin tin g out to h im .th at a t the presen t time the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation issu ed no in str u ction s concerning the handling of gasolin e. However 1 h esit at ed to put t h is on record in view of sever al m atters? f i r s t , the Standard Oil Company of In dian a,(an d perhaps other companies) has issu ed in st r u ct ion 3 which on t h eir face appear to apply sp e cifically to leaded gasolin e* st at e th at they.have I t would done t h is seoenmt bad h eir polic own y to r e sp openly on sibilit y although the la t t e r i3 the ease. Second, the in i t ia l regu lation s publish ed by the United States Public Health Service have"not been o ffic ia lly modified, and so fa r as I know the Service h as not put: i t se l f on record as approving of our discontinuance of le a fle t s of in str u ction s and regu lat ion s at fi l l i n g st at io n s* Their poin t of view in t h is is sim ilar to mine* 1 am not sure th at they would publicly agree with rue on the record i f fo r no other reason than th at they would con sider too-close an agreement between us as bad policy* W might, th erefore, appear to have n eglected the carryin g out of the regu lation s i f I were'to st at e sp e c ific ally th at w had not issu ed any kind of In str u ction s* I do not believe a l l t h is I s of gr eat importance, but 1 have been very cautious in replyin g to th is gentleman because I have not wished to get us in to any awkward p osit ion . I have taken the t r ou b le, th erefore^ to express what I have said about i t as my own person al opinion without sayin g anything about the pr act ices and r e sp o n sib ilit ie s of the Ethyl ^asolin e Corporation. I make t h is cle ar in my le t t e r to you because, as you know, 3Lb is not my custom to hedg on matters of t h is so r t , and because, a lso , one deals with cer tain members of the legal group at h is own p e r il. Sin cer ely yours, N20453