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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 72-1713 INDUSTRIAL UNION DE AFL-CIO, et al., TMENT" Petitioners, PetitionerIntervenors v. JAMES D. HODGSON, SECRETARY OF LABOR, Respondent ON PETITION FOR REVIEW OF THE SECRETARY OF LABOR'S STANDARD FOR EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS DUST UNDER THE.OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY ANC HEALTH ACT OF 1970 JOINT APPENDIX VOLUME HI PP. 710-1114 BFS 008192 (i) TABLE OF CONTENTS The Standard Under Review ...................................................... Notice of Proposed Rule Making on a standard for exposure to asbestos dust (Exhibit 1) . . . Page 4m 1 Letter of November A, 1971 from Geo. H.R. Taylor (Exec. Secretary, AFL-CIO) to Ass't. Secretary of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health, requesting U. S. Dept, of Labor promulgate emergency asbestos standards (Exhibit 2) ................................................................................ 10 Letter of November 10, 1971 from Ass't Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety & Health to Director of NIOSH, Dept, of HEW requesting recommendations on a five fiber per milliliter TLV for asbestos (Exhibit 3)......................................................................................... 26 Letter of November 17, 1971, from Dr. Marcus Key, Director of National Institute of Occupational Safety & Health, replying to request by Ass't Secretary of Labor Geo. Guenther for recommenda tions regarding emergency asbestos standard & permanent standard for occupational exposure to asbestos dust (Exhibit A).............................. 28 Emergency Standard for Exposure to Asbestos Dust, published December 7, 1971 (Exhibit 5) . . . . 35 Publication in 37 Federal Register 322 of standard to Ship Repairing, Shipbuildir ipplying emergency (Exhibit 6) . . . . . 38 Notice in 37 Federal Register 3992 qf'^February 25, 1972, that National Institute for Occupationar!:::Safety 8 Health filed with Secretary of Labor "Criteria fo^X Recommended Standard on Occupational Exposure to Asbe^tos^ (Exhibit 7) ................................... . 39 NIOSH "Criteria for a Recommenced Standard on Occupational Exposure to Asbestos." Ekrrl%it 8)........................................................................... 40 Notice of Meeting of February 3, 1972, of Advisory Committee on Asbestos Standards (Exhibit 9) .................................................................................... 167 Recommendations of Advisory Committee on Asbestos Dust, regarding proposed Standard (Exhibit 10) ............................................................ 168 Letter from Isaac Weaver, Member of Advisory Committee on Asbestos Dust expressing dissent to Committee recommendations (Exhibit 11). 183 Letter from Geo. C. Guenther to Mr. Weaver indicating determination be done to prejudice Committee recommendations (Exhibit 11A) . . . 185 Excerpts from stenographic transcripts of meetings of Advisory Committee on Asbestos Dust (Exhibits 12, 13 & 16)........................................ 186 Written Comments Received by the Secretary pursuant to Notice of Proposed Rule Making (Exhibit 17)........................................................................... 223 BFS 00SI 93 ( ii ) Exhibit 17 continued: Page William J. Nicholson's February 9, 1972 letter & attached comments entitled "The Characterization of ~Asbestos Dust Levels in Insulation Work," with data appended. (Comment No. 3)..........................................................................................223 Kingsley Kay's Brief on the NIOSH Proposed Asbestos Standard (plus references, tables and supplemental material) . (CommentNo. 4............................................................................................ 243 Comments of the United States Department of the Interior, (Comment No. 5)................................................................................................................... 260 Statement of the Textile Workers Union (Perkel letter of February 10, 1972) plus Appendix I attached (October 18, 1971 memo from Selikoff and Holaday). (Comment No. 7) . . . . 264 Letter & Comments of Duncan Holaday (February 10, 1972) "Procedural Standards As A Means of Controlling Exposures to Asbestos Dust," (Comment No. 8).............................................................284 Comments of Brand Insulations Inc., by Thomas. J. Greyl, National Safety Director (Comment No. 9) .......................... Statement of Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers (February 11, 1972) (Comment No. 10).................................... .................................................. Letter & Comments of Dr. Selikoff, "Ejij^diniological Constraints in Development of A Standard for Asbestos Dust, (Comment No. 11)...................................................................................... AV Comments of Union Carbide Corpora^^i by James W. Rawlings, (Comment No. 12)............................... ...................................................................... 298 301 305 314 Comments of Industrial Union , AFL-CIO, in letter of February 10, 1972. (Comment NoT 13) ................................................... Comments of Dow Chemical U.S.A. by Wayne M. Hancock, Director of Labor Relations & Safety, (Comment No. 14) . . . 320 326 Comments by the Industrial Hygiene Dept, of General Motors Corporation by V. J. Cartrop, Director of Industrial Relations (Comment No. 15)........................................................................................................... 327 Comments of the Ralph M. Parsons Co. by J.W. Maddox, Vice President-Manager of Construction, (Comment No. 16) . . 330 Statement of the Shipbuilding Council of America, (Exhibit 18) . 332 Statement of the Committee on Industrial Health, American Iron & Steel Institute (Exhibit 19) .................................................................................. 337 List of Members of the Asbestos Information Association- North America (Exhibit 38)........................................................................................................... 343 List "The Uses of Asbestos & Asbestos Products,"(Exhibit 39) . . 344 BFS 00S194 ( iii ) Page I, Statement "Changing Content of Insulation Materials" by Walter K. Hease, Manager of Research & Development, Industrial Relations, Johns-Mansville Corporation (Exhibit 40) .......................... 347 Statement by Mr. Edward Fenner, Director of Environmental Control, Johns-Manville .Corporation (Exhibit 41)........................................................ 355 Statement by Mr. Edward J. Killian on behalf of Gold Bond Building Products (Exhibit 42) ............................................................................ 367 Statement by Dr. J. Corbett McDonald, Chairman of Dept, of Epidemilogy, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, (Exhibit 43) . 372 Statement by Mr. James W. Rawlings, Vice President, Union Carbide I Corporation (Exhibit 44)................................................................................................ 396 Statement & Exhibits of Certain-Teed Products Corporation by Mr. Bruce J. Phillips (Exhibit 45)....................................................................... 402 Comments & Views of Cement Asbestos Products Company, (Exhibit 46)420 1 Asbestos Health Precautions in Industry Dept, of Employment & l ^Productivity, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, pp. 3-6, (Exhibit 47)......................................................................................................... 429 Technical Data Note 13 (Exhibit 48).............................................. . . . 434 Technical Data Note 24 (Exhibit 49).......................................... ..... . 438 Article by D. W. Hills "Economics of Dust Control." (fe^iibit 51) . 442 Comments by AFL-CIO on Proposals for a Standard to^?fetect Workers from Asbestos (3/17/72) (Exhibit 52) . . ..........................456 Asbestos Information Association: Asbestos & Heaitll - Questions & Answers (Exhibit 53)........................................................ ............................................. 481 Letter of Dr. Borow (October 12, 1967) (Exhibit 5^)............................... 482 Dr. Key letter of November 24, 1971 with attachemnts (Exhibit 57) 489 Graph entitled "Asbestos Cement Pipe Plants" (Exhibit 60) ... . 494 Graph entitled " Asbestos Friction Plants-Personal SamplesSecular Trends-Means of Operation" (Exhibit 61) .................................... 495 Graph entitled "Asbestos Friction Plants -Means of Operation, (Exhibit 62)............................................................................................................................... 496 Graph entitled "Asbestos Textile Plants" (Exhibit 63) .......................... 497 1 Graph entitled "Asbestos Insulation Plants - Means of Operation, (Exhibit 64)............................................................................................................................... 498 Graph entitled "Secular Trends" (Exhibit 65) 499 BFS 008195 ( iv ) Page Comments from the Flintkote Company (Exhibit 67) 500 Letter to G.F. Scannell, Director, Office of Safety & Health Standards, U.S. Dept, of Labor, March 15, 1972 (Exhibit 68) . . 502 Dr. Key's March 17, 1972 letter correcting his prior brief, (Exhibit 70).......................................................................................................................... 505 Letter & Statement of Mr. A.D. Shinnerer, Employee Trustee, Asbestos Workers Western States Occupational Health Plan, (Exhibit 71).......................................................................................................................... 507 Submission by Duncan Holiday of Manual of Practices for Ship building, Shipbreaking & Shiprepair (Exhibit 72) ............................... 512 Letter of Transmittal & Statement (including exhibits of GAF Corporation (Exhibits 74a and 74b).................................................................. 548 Transmittal & Statement by Dr. Norbet Roberts of the Indus trial Medical Association (Exhibs 75a and 75b).................................... 565 Duncan Holaday letter of March 23, 1972, with enclosure, (Exhibits 76a and 76b).................................................................................................578 Johns-Manville Corporation letter dated March 24, 1972, (Exhibit 77)................................................................................. William J. Nicholson letter dated Mar ch/=-|W 1972 with attached seven-page analysis (Exhibits 78 a and^Jpb)......................................... Testimony of Kingsley Kay (March 16/(4^72) (Exhibit 79) ... . 593 602 624 Letter of Transmittal & Comments f^m the American Iron & Steel Institute (Exhibits 80a and SOb^^W.....................................................................630 Letter transmitting Addendum to. Testimony of Armstrong Cork Company, (Exhibit 81) . . . 634 Statement of the Colombia Gas systems Service Corporation, (Exhibit 82)........................................................................................................................... 636 Statement by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, Health Research GrouD, D.C. at Dept, of Labor Hearings, March 14, 1972 ........................................... 638 Statement of Sheldon W. Samuels, Director, Occupational Health, Safety & Environmental Affairs, IUD, AFL-CIO at Dept, of Labor Hearings, March 17, 1972 ............................................................................................ 640 Statement of National Insulation Manufacturers Association & National Insulation Contractors Association before Dept, of Labor Hearings, March 14, 1972 ............................................................................. 652 Statement of Joseph G. Hall, Vice President, GAF Corporation's Building & Industrial Products Group at Dept, of Labor hearings, March 16, 1972 ...........................................................................................................................662 BFS 00SI 96